The art market is really not predictable

Litzlberg am Attersee

"The art market is really not predictable," said Daniella Luxembourg, a dealer in New York and London. "It's influenced by the nervousness about the financial markets and the political instability around the world."


Christie's Nov. 1 sale missed its low estimate after the Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 5.2 percent in two days. The index rose 1.6 percent yesterday before Sotheby's auction.


"If ever there was a turnaround, I think it happened tonight," Sotheby's auctioneer, Tobias Meyer, said after the two-hour-plus sale.


The top lot, Klimt's "Litzlberg am Attersee," was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owner and recently returned to the woman's grandson. The 1915 work depicts verdant hills above the lake of the title in western Austria.


Earlier this year, the Museum of Modern Art in Salzburg, Austria, returned the work to Georges Jorisch, grandson of Amalie Redlich, who owned it until she was deported to Lodz, a Polish town with a large Jewish ghetto, and never heard from again. The Gestapo sold off her collection."

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Cuadros de Picasso robados

 

Obras de Pablo Picasso que han sido robadas

• Sculpteur et Deux Testes

• La Dame a La Toilette



• The Smoker

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Esta es solo una parte de las obras de Pablo Picasso que han sido robadas y han sido publicada por el FBI. Al preguntarnos a que puede deberse este fenómeno, será necesario comprender el proceso que está atravesando el mundo del arte. Con las últimas crisis económicas que han afectado a gran parte del mundo occidental, no es sorprendente que las inversiones se hayan volcado hacia el arte.




Como es sabido, las subastas y compra-venta de objetos y piezas de arte de altos valores monetarios han incrementado altamente su demanda, ya que constituyen un buen objeto de inversiones a largo plazo. El gran auge del arte contemporáneo y su predomino en el mercado se debe no sólo a su popularidad, sino también a la cada vez mayor inaccesibilidad de las piezas de arte moderno.

Arias Vera en San Marcos

 "Después de vivir y exponer en Europa (9 años) y en Estados Unidos (casi 20 años), el pintor peruano Luis Arias Vera vuelve a exhibir su creación en Perú en la exposición “Efecto de Abraeldía”, que se inaugura el 3 de noviembre, a las 7:00 p.m., en las Sala Vinatea Reinoso del segundo nivel del Patio de Derecho del Centro Cultural de San Marcos.
Arias Vera fue fundador del grupo “Arte Nuevo”, que en la década de 1960 renovó el panorama de la pintura peruana. En 1967 obtuvo el Gran Premio de la Fundación para las Artes, lo cual le valió una beca. En esa ocasión viajó a Nueva York y vivió dos años en la Gran Manzana.
Ha realizado exposiciones en diversos países de Europa y América Latina. “Efecto de Abraeldía” es, para el artista, una alusión a la apertura de horizontes nuevos producida por el efecto del cruce de los abras andinos que atraviesan nuestra cordillera."







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El arte de Botero en Marlborough

Marlborough Gallery will present the first showing of a new body of work by the world renowned Colombian artist, Fernando Botero. The exhibition, entitled Via Crucis, is based on scenes from the passion of Christ. This will be Botero’s first New York exhibition since 2006 when he presented the critically acclaimed  show of paintings dealing with the events of the Abu Ghraib prison  in Iraq in 2003.


The show of Via Crucis (Latin for The Way of the Cross) will consist of twenty-seven oils on canvas of various sizes and approximately thirty-four drawings in mixed media on paper. 


One of the largest works in the show is a Pieta measuring 93 x 58” while a Descent of the Cross measures 90 by 50”. Smaller works measuring 20 x 20” lose no power from their size and are made all the more touching by their very intimacy. 


The hallmark of all the paintings regardless of size and subject is Botero’s stunning use of color that charges the works with  both seductive beauty and elemental impact. 


Just as in his paintings  of the Abu Ghraib prison, these works depicting Christ’s Passion are  intense and powerful not only because of the events depicted but also  because of Botero’s ability to convey pathos and emotion. 


Botero can  be humorous and whimsical as some of his paintings over the years  reveal, but he can also turn his considerable talents to portray tragic  events as the paintings in this show effectively demonstrated.

Via Crucis

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TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART

Tel Aviv's modern art museum 


"A display of the collection at the Tel Aviv's modern art museum, follows the chronological development of modernism and its varied expressions in Europe and the USA of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s: American Abstract Expressionism, Art Informel, Post-Painterly Abstraction, Pop and Nouveau Rיalisme and minimal and conceptual art. Also presented are prominent trends of the creative pluralism that developed during the 1980s and characterizes post/neo-modernism."








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