tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post914948069302386221..comments2024-03-28T22:50:02.315+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Modigliani revival at the Tate ModernHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-58779281183126442452018-05-15T15:40:56.057+10:002018-05-15T15:40:56.057+10:00Last night in New York Sotheby’s confidently put t...Last night in New York Sotheby’s confidently put the highest estimate ever placed on a work of art at auction. It exceeded the $100m estimate Christie’s placed on last year’s Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi (which sold to a Saudi prince for $450m) and the $140m placed on Pablo Picasso’s Les femmes d’Alger. <br /><br />The reclining nude by the modernist master Amadeo Modigliani fetched $157.2m last night, the highest price in Sotheby’s history. But it failed to beat the $170m record set for the artist three years ago.<br /><br />Edward Helmore<br />The Guardian<br />Tue 15th May 2018Edward Helmorehttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/may/14/modigliani-nude-auction-sothebys-new-york-recordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-32852430259307367912018-04-25T10:52:49.324+10:002018-04-25T10:52:49.324+10:00Mark
as much as I love Modigliani's life and ...Mark<br /><br />as much as I love Modigliani's life and works of art, no single painting is worth in excess of $150m/£108m. Nonetheless I always track Sotheby's special auctions and will report back the final bid in this blog in May.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-52601009424815218922018-04-25T00:25:11.245+10:002018-04-25T00:25:11.245+10:00A Modigliani reclining nude is to be offered at au...A Modigliani reclining nude is to be offered at auction with an estimate in excess of $150m (£108m), the highest pre-sale figure for work of art. Sotheby’s announced the estimate as it unveiled the 1917 painting Nu couché (sur le côté gauche), a star of the recent Modigliani show at Tate Modern, to an audience of collectors and journalists in Hong Kong.<br /><br />At 147cm wide, it is the largest work Modigliani painted. The majority of his reclining nudes are in museums, particularly in the US. The Guggenheim, MoMa and the Met in New York own one each. The only one in the UK is in the Courtauld Gallery in London. <br /><br />The painting will be sold in New York in May, part of Sotheby’s big evening sale of impressionist and modern art. <br /><br />Mark Brown<br />The Guardian<br /><br /><br /><br />Mark Brownhttps://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/apr/24/modigliani-nude-world-record-auction-estimate-dollars-150-m-sothebysnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-3286275583444714642018-03-15T10:56:45.898+11:002018-03-15T10:56:45.898+11:00ian
tragic and young :( Egon Schiele, Georges Seu...ian<br /><br />tragic and young :( Egon Schiele, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Lyubov Popova, Frederic Bazille.. they all died in their 20s and 30s and broke my heart. Even artists who were not my favourites, like Theodore Géricault, didn't have enough time to establish their careers.<br /><br />Only being a musician seems more risky to life and limb :( Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-3529466618599147472018-03-15T10:39:05.133+11:002018-03-15T10:39:05.133+11:00CherryPie
I can only travel abroad during our Jun...CherryPie<br /><br />I can only travel abroad during our June-July winter holidays, so I am dependent on exhibitions coming to Australian galleries or me being able to visit European galleries at exactly the right time! You are soooo fortunate with the Tate Modern etc.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-19079795315754866162018-03-15T08:06:13.003+11:002018-03-15T08:06:13.003+11:00One of my favourites also, with a distinct style a...One of my favourites also, with a distinct style all his own. I was not aware of the tragic ending... alas the lot of a true Bohemian.iancochranehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18300908747367109450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-58627899077177000262018-03-15T02:52:16.513+11:002018-03-15T02:52:16.513+11:00This sounds like a fine display to go and see.This sounds like a fine display to go and see.CherryPiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11788084724907992076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-56991992419307652962018-03-14T16:59:14.358+11:002018-03-14T16:59:14.358+11:00Ex Pat
The Tate said that the environment in whic...Ex Pat<br /><br />The Tate said that the environment in which Modigliani made his last works is re-imagined. The visitor immerses himself in a virtual reality recreation of the artist’s final Parisian studio, which uses his actual studio space as a template. I would love to see the 60+ objects, artworks and materials that Modigliani actually handled.<br />Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-49725548533737865782018-03-14T15:06:33.986+11:002018-03-14T15:06:33.986+11:00My sister queued up for the Ochre Atelier which sh...My sister queued up for the Ochre Atelier which she thought you might like to mention. But be warned. It was a slow moving queue.Ex Patnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-76318309943189878482018-03-14T01:19:57.964+11:002018-03-14T01:19:57.964+11:00Parnassus
apparently the maternal grandparents re...Parnassus<br /><br />apparently the maternal grandparents really disliked Amadeus and didn't want his baby in their home. Fortunately Jeanne was brought back to Italy by the artist's brother, raised by her paternal grandparents and finally adopted by her paternal aunt. Fortunately the Modigliani family were very well known in Livorno and baby Jeanne was promised a wonderful life.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-68884078805674200382018-03-14T01:09:22.742+11:002018-03-14T01:09:22.742+11:00bazza
I have always believed that El Greco was a ...bazza<br /><br />I have always believed that El Greco was a truly devout Greek Orthodox congregant. Fortunately for him, Toledo was the religious capital of Spain and a source of many religious commissions (especially complete altar compositions) for the recently arrived artist. <br /><br />But I know exactly what you mean by the elongated physical features. El Greco was expressing religious emotion via exaggerated, Mannerist traits. Modigliani on the other hand, was a socialist Bohemian who used elongated necks and mask-like faces to reveal each individual's inner life.<br /><br />What a shocking waste of a life, dying so young :(Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-61151443980838088512018-03-14T00:55:32.520+11:002018-03-14T00:55:32.520+11:00Deb
Amadeo's mother Eugenie Garsin and her hu...Deb<br /><br />Amadeo's mother Eugenie Garsin and her husband enjoyed a very good life until they had to declare bankruptcy in 1883. Yet they still had to pay the dowry of Eugenie's sister in law, Olimpia Modigliani, and those dreaded in-laws seized ALL the properties in the house. Apparently the family had to move to a very modest house and had to manage on whatever moneys Eugenie was could bring in from her teaching. Amadeo's father did nothing, apparently :(Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-43513147775969041262018-03-14T00:47:20.178+11:002018-03-14T00:47:20.178+11:00Andrew
it seems that all the excitement, progress...Andrew<br /><br />it seems that all the excitement, progress and modernity arrived from the Edwardian era to the 1920s, in arts, sciences, architecture, dance, clothes, sport and every other area of human endeavour. This was true in France, Germany, Britain, Russia, Austria, USA, Canada, Australia as you say, and many other places. WW1 and then the Great Depression pretty much ended great cultural progress.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-42702408217428620252018-03-13T22:45:43.361+11:002018-03-13T22:45:43.361+11:00Hello Hels, The saying that artists must suffer c...Hello Hels, The saying that artists must suffer certainly seems to be borne out by Modigliani's story. What a tragic ending also for his fiancée, but how could she leave behind her other daughter? I was surprised to read in Wikipedia that the surviving daughter was brought up by Modigliani's parents in Italy rather than by Hébuterne's parents in France. <br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-19562600805308996762018-03-13T21:06:06.255+11:002018-03-13T21:06:06.255+11:00Modigliani's portraits always put me in mind o...Modigliani's portraits always put me in mind of those by El Greco, with the elongated features and all. There are theories , I believe, that El Greco was a Sephardic Jew.<br />I feel that knowing the fate of the artist adds a certain amount of poignancy when looking at his (or her) paintings. We cannot truly appreciate an artist while they are among us. To paraphrase, "No man is a prophet in his own time".<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s abounding Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-32927950610713919242018-03-13T20:50:14.617+11:002018-03-13T20:50:14.617+11:00Why didn't Eugenie keep sending money? There w...Why didn't Eugenie keep sending money? There would be nothing more tragic than seeing your son and pregnant daughter in law starving :(Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-77618714841606784352018-03-13T20:38:25.270+11:002018-03-13T20:38:25.270+11:00Typo, take 2.
Will we ever see such interesting a...Typo, take 2.<br /><br />Will we ever see such interesting artists again such as those from the 19th and 20th centuries? Even Australia had some quite interesting and good artists between 1900 and 1990, but I see nothing new now, not one fresh faced and challenging, but more importantly not a great artist. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-56675799901799623592018-03-13T20:34:52.476+11:002018-03-13T20:34:52.476+11:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com