Dancing Minds & Painted Wings

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Contemporary Art / Doha

 22 April 2013

  PROPERTY FROM THE CHARLES SAATCHI COLLECTION, LONDON

Hayv Kahraman

HEADS ON PLATE 2008

 60,000 USD (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

172.7 by 106.5cm.; 67 7/8  by 42in

THe first image was part of a contemporary sale and it sold for twice its estimate. 

I first saw this image at Saatchi Gallery and fell in love with the artist.  I was surprised when it surfaced again, at an action none the less. The curious thing about this sale is that a gallery that can full well sell and negotiate sales of art work chose to sell through an auction house.  The subject is the sacrificed eed lamb.  What struck me was the grace of the figures.  The artist addresses a social issue [women rights is Iran] but unlike socially conscious artists of the recent past she does it in a elegant decorative way.  She elevates her own culture.

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Sotheby's 19th Century Furniture and Decorative Art including Property from the Robinson Mansion, New Orleans

New York | 19 April 2013

Edward F. Caldwell & Co A large Siena marble, gilt and patinated bronze mantel clock New York, early 20th century

Estimate: 15,000 - 20,000 USD

height 19 1/2 in.; width 19 1/2 in.; depth 8 in.49.5 cm; 49.5 cm; 20.5 cm

It looks to be of a good size for a centerpiece and the sculptures are beautiful [which is a major problem for much of the decorative arts, they often look kitsch or boring].  Isn't the price exorbitant though? 15,000 for a 100 year old clock!  It is too much.  The lay person that would see this in a collection or home would have no way of knowing how much it is worth.  If one buys something that expensive it should look it.

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/19th-century-furniture-n08983/lot.162.lotnum.html

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SOTHEBY'S Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings Hong Kong | April 06, 2013

NGUYEN TRUNG 1990 LADY WITH FISH 100 by 100 cm.; 39 1/4 by 39 1/4 in.  

Estimate: 70,000 - 90,000 HKD Serenity 

AFFANDI 1907 - 1990 THE RED HORSE 94.5 by 127 cm.; 37 by 50 in.

Estimate: 780,000 - 980,000 HKD 

CHEONG SOO PIENG 1917-1983 MUSICIANS 76.5 by 61.5 cm.; 30 by 24 in.

Estimate: 160,000 - 250,000 HKD 

PUTU SUTAWIJAYA B. 1971 MEMORI (MEMORY) 139.5 by 139.5 cm.; 54 3/4 by 54 3/4 in.

Estimate: 70,000 - 90,000 HKD 

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/modern-and-contemporary-southeast-asian-hk0457/lot.255.lotnum.html

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/modern-and-contemporary-southeast-asian-hk0457/lot.315.html

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/modern-and-contemporary-southeast-asian-hk0457/lot.372.html

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/modern-and-contemporary-southeast-asian-hk0457/lot.215.lotnum.html

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Christie's PHOTOGRAPHS

5 April 2013

New York, Rockefeller Plaza

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (B. 1948)

HALL OF THIRTY-THREE BAYS, 1995, 16 5/8 x 21¼in. (42.2 x 54cm.) 

$17,500

The beauty grips me.  this peice would do wonderfully in a eastern buisness tycoons salon if it was just larger.  I can see it with ultra modern furniture.

RAY METZKER (B. 1931)

WASHINGTON, D.C., 1964, 6 x 8¾in. (15.7 x 22.7cm.) 

$17,500 (it sold way above the estimate)

What am I looking at? I wonder as I taking the skillful representation of angles and contrast.

PETER BEARD (B. 1938)

ORPHANED CHEETAHS, KENYA, FROM 'THE END OF THE GAME,' 1968

20 x 24in. (50.8 x 61cm.) 

$183,750 (it sold way >2x the estimate!)

I love everything Peter Beard makes.  He is a genius of beauty.  It is sad sweet.  Love the placement of the pops of color.  This is a stand alone peice not to be jumbled among a collection.

LALLA ESSAYDI (B. 1956)

CONVERGING TERRITORIES #21, 2003-2004, each 24 x 20in. (61 x 50.8cm.) 

$25,000

IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

4 GUEDRAS (MOROCCO), 1971, 23 x 19¾in. (58.8 x 50.5cm.) 

$105,750 (sold above estimate)

Are these too offensive for a home or office?

Love that you can see to of their faces and that the reduced texture color and pattern.

HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)

ROUND THE CLOCK I, N.Y., 1987, 14 1/8 x 11½in. (36 x 29.2cm.) 

$21,250 

I have adored this image for a while.  It is iconic, but not too iconic as to be camp placed in one's home.  Great inoffensive decorative piece and museum worthy as well.

IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

MOUTH, FOR L'OREAL (B), NEW YORK, 1986, 17 x 16in. (43.1 x 40.6cm.) 

$87,500 

How is this for L'Oreal? It looks to me as to be critical of 'the business'.  great piece for an office.

BILL BRANDT (1904-1983)

NUDE, LONDON, 1952, 13 5/8 x 11 5/8in. (34.5 x 29.5cm.) 

$23,750 (sold above estimate)

Love the breakdown of shapes and extremes of color.

All in all the pieces I chose did really well in the show.

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/hiroshi-sugimoto-hall-of-thirty-three-bays-19-5662326-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5662326&sid=60267650-5d85-46e1-9a8e-ac8f06e02d80

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/ray-metzker-washington-dc-1964-5662333-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5662333&sid=60267650-5d85-46e1-9a8e-ac8f06e02d80

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/peter-beard-orphaned-cheetahs-kenya-fro-5662338-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5662338&sid=60267650-5d85-46e1-9a8e-ac8f06e02d80   http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/lalla-essaydi-converging-territories-21-2-5662359-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5662359&sid=f5b344f3-1a7e-468f-b688-5332f98a53c7

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/irving-penn-4-guedras-1971-5662360-details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=5&intObjectID=5662360&sid=f5b344f3-1a7e-468f-b688-5332f98a53c7&page=4

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/horst-p-horst-round-the-clock-i-5662463-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5662463&sid=778b0802-b98d-4f13-bf12-985039cd5131 http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/irving-penn-mouth-for-loreal-new-5662490-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5662490&sid=778b0802-b98d-4f13-bf12-985039cd5131 http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/bill-brandt-nude-london-1952-5662510-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5662510&sid=374ece45-5c1f-4383-a05d-d7352a0bd8ad

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CHRISTIE'S

THE DELIGHTED EYE: MODERNIST MASTERWORKS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

4 April 2013

New York, Rockefeller Plaza

EDWARD WESTON (1886-1958)

NUDE, 1925  5¾ x 6 5/8in. (14.5 x 17cm.) 

"The sitter Miriam Lerner was a young Los Angeles socialite with whom Weston had an affair.  This photograph originally belonged to photographer Imogen Cunningham."

I love the breakdown and symmetry of lines and simple shapes.  It is both a good decorative and museum piece.  kind of wish the cropping and elbows was more perfect.

$483,750

ÉTIENNE-JULES MAREY (1830-1904)

MAN WALKING, 1882, 1 5/8 x 3¾in. (4.2 x 9.5cm.) 

Estimate $15,000 – $25,000

It is a collection or museum piece.  If only it was larger, it could be an amazing decorative piece.

LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY (1895-1946)

THE TRANSFORMATION/ANXIETY DREAM, FOTOPLASTIK, 1925

9 x 6¾in. (22.9 x 17.1cm.) 

$75,000 

Would be amazing large as a a rooms decorative center piece.

OBSESSION, C. 1870

$8,750 

"The images in this album predates Freud and the Surrealists' preoccupation with aggression and eroticism by almost half a century. The album was created by an anonymous French amateur photographer, and consisted of about 100 pages containing 200 photocollages, salt prints and hand-colored photographs. Its date of 1870 is tied to a newspaper clipping from that year which appears in another of the collages. The remainder of this extraordinary album is now in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. "  This is a amazing peice.  THere is little i can add to the lot notes to express how much this peice impresses me.  It expresses an interest in the weird before that became 'good art'.  It is authentically old and of a wonderful size, i would not want it any larger.  It would do wonderfully in a museum, or on someone's wall of curiosity.  It would do well in some one's collection of old photography as an acent peice.  It is an extreamly prestigious peice, even if the rest of the album is not currently on display.  Plesantly peculular and offensive.

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/edward-weston-nude-1925-5657793-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5657793&sid=598caa42-62bf-4db9-a9ef-7fad78f7c51f#top

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/etienne-jules-marey-man-walking-1882-5657820-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5657820&sid=ebc0cea2-1d4b-4b07-991c-7da828a5b6ad

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/laszlo-moholy-nagy-the-transformationanxiety-dr-5657829-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5657829&sid=ebc0cea2-1d4b-4b07-991c-7da828a5b6ad#top

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/unknown-photographer-obsession-c-1870-5657856-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5657856&sid=c45433ab-1302-4fcb-a257-ffb3aeba47aa

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CHRISTIE'S INTERIORS

2 April 2013 - 3 April 2013

New York, Rockefeller Plaza

A LOUIS VUITTON WARDROBE TRUNK,

SECOND QUARTER 20TH CENTURY, one drawer missing 

44 x 22 x 22in. (111 x 55.5 x 55.5cm.) 

$8,750 

The Vuetton chest would make a great interior decore piece.  It is timeless, classy, and vintage, but so brand recognizable one would have all the women know immediately what it was.

john newman, throwback

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A abstract piece that looks like the mad plans for a flying contraption.

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/drawings-watercolors/john-newman-throwback-5663503-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5663503&sid=2766e256-ef40-419f-ad66-91fba14db53f http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/textiles-costume/a-louis-vuitton-wardrobe-trunk-second-quarter-5663837-details.aspx?from=salesummary&intObjectID=5663837&sid=2766e256-ef40-419f-ad66-91fba14db53f

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CHRISTIE’S

Estimate USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00

DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971) Masked Child with a Doll, N.Y.C., 1961 

gelatin silver print, printed later by Neil Selkirk numbered ‘12/75’   14 x 11in. (35.6 x 28cm.) Presented in white maple frame with 8-ply museum overmat, behind plexiglas and wired for installation.

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/photographs-by-diane-arbus/masked-child-with-a-doll-nyc-1961-39/260

This piece would do well as part of a collection or in a museum.  From afar it appears a mundane subject but when you really look at it you realize it is weird.  Your mind begs to know the story behind it.  It must be a great story.

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Algunos DIbujos míos, ilustraciones, estudios de línea y trama,  o lo que tu quieras que sea.

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Psyche revived by Cupid’s kiss by Bathsalts

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Black Cloud by Carlos Amorales

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David Stephenson - Vaults (2003-2009)

Click the images for more details

See: David Stephenson - Domes

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One of the most amazing paintings i have ever seen-

“Divina Tragedia-

Immediately after the 1848 Revolution, the Director of Fine Arts, Charles Blanc, commissioned a decoration from Paul Chenavard for the Pantheon in Paris, which the new government wished to erect as a “temple of humanity”. The artist planned a mosaic as the main feature, presenting an “impartial résumé of all the religious traditions”.

But in December 1851, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte gave the Pantheon back to the Catholic Church, and Chenavard’s project was abandoned. Nevertheless, for the 1869 Salon, Chenevard went back to the idea of illustrating the history of religion with Divina Tragedia, in counterpoint to Dante Alighieri’s work:The Divine Comedy. This painting was accompanied in the Salon booklet by a long commentary that started: “As the ancient religions came to a close and with the accession of the Christian Trinity into Heaven, Death, helped by the Angel of Justice and the Spirit, struck down those gods doomed to perish”. The painting was met with incomprehension from both critics and the public alike. It was considered to be too complex, overloaded with references and ideas that the painter wanted to express. InPhilosophical art, Baudelaire explained in a particularly virulent way, how Chenavard’s art could provoke such a rejection. “Chenavard’s brain is fog-ridden, with vapours and soot […]. In this brain, things are only reflected […] through a mist. Chenavard is not a painter, he scorns what we understand as painting”. What Baudelaire was condemning was a painting ” that claimed to replace the book […] in order to teach history, morals and philosophy”. The painting was nevertheless purchased by the State for the Musée du Luxembourg. Divina Tragediawas only exhibited there for a short time, and was only rediscovered during Le musée du Luxemboug in 1974 exhibition… in 1974.”

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Serenity by Henri Martin

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Marie Auguste Emile René Ménard - Bathers on the Beach

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Who is the artist?

In the modern era for the first time man has been able to be informed about all the religions.  and they have become over stimulated, and get sick of it.

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claudio parmiggiani

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Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1520/24[1] – February 5, 1578) was a North Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He is also calledGiambattista Moroni. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered one of the great portrait painters of sixteenth century Italy.

The man is 'undressed' by the standards of the day.  Why would anyone want a portrait in their boxers and t-shirt?

She, well i just think she looks genuin.. and pretty.