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Picasso portrait of Dora Maar becomes the world’s second most expensive painting [May 06]

Just two years after setting the world auction record for his Garçon à la Pipe (sold for USD 93 million on 5 May 2004),  Pablo Picasso came close to repeating the feat when a 1941 portrait of his muse, Dora Maar, was knocked down for USD 85 million at Sotheby’s prestigious Impressionist & Modern Art evening sale.

This astonishing hammer price confirms the market’s enthusiasm for the master of modern art – whose price index has risen by 87% over the last five years – and for art in general (New York turnover is up by 20% since the start of the year). In the same session, Sotheby’s also sold a major nude by Pablo PICASSO’s friend Henri MATISSE for USD 16.5 million. This 92cm wide 1927 work had been estimated at USD 12-15 million. Total turnover at Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art evening sale was USD 207.5 million.

Christie’s auction on the same theme, held the previous day, grossed USD 180.2 million, with a top bid of USD 36 million for Vincent Van Gogh’s L’Arlésienne, Madame Ginoux, 1890, followed by USD 31 million for Le Repos, another Picasso canvas dating from 1932.

Explosion of prices in New York [Apr 06]

Art prices continued to climb in the first quarter of 2006. In the middle of the spring/summer auction season and a few days ahead of the prestigious "Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale" in New York, the Artprice Global Index shows that prices rose a further 16% over just four months! Since the beginning of the year, 117 lots have already exceeded the million dollar mark, compared with only 66 over the same period in 2005.

In New York, where prices have risen 20% in the first four months of the year, we could even use the word 'speculation'. They are now 42% higher than at the height of the speculative bubble in 1990. Already this year, a major painting by William Turner has fetched USD 32 million at auction. However, in London, prices have stabilised since the beginning of the year. Already in 2005, the rise in transaction prices in the UK was only +4.7% compared with +27% in 2004.
And in France, the upward trend seen at the end of 2005 was confirmed at the beginning of this season. The Artprice Global Index for Paris transactions rose 7.4% in the first quarter of 2006, thus approaching the level reached at the end of 1991.

Against this backdrop, estimates in New York are soaring. For example, a painting by Pablo PICASSO entitled Sylvette that last sold in June 1995 for GBP 480,000 (USD 760,000) will be auctioned by Sotheby's on 3 May with an estimate of USD 4.5 million – USD 6 million. At the same auction, La Femme en Rouge Appuyée à un Fauteuil by Chaïm SOUTINE will be offered at USD 2.75 million – USD 3.5 million, representing almost 10x its previous hammer price (USD 370,000 on 10 May 1989). Christie's estimates also reflect the sharp inflation in the art market. The auctioneer will offer Claude MONET's Effet de neige à Limetz for USD 3.5 million – USD 4.5 million, compared with an estimate range of only USD 1 million – USD 1.5 million at Sotheby's six years earlier. A painting by Alberto GIACOMETTI of a workshop scene will be put up for auction for USD 1.2 million – USD 1.6 million compared with its hammer price of USD 170,000 in 1993.
But will buyers be tempted to buy at these extremely optimistic estimates? Not at all sure…

The Views of Venice at the top of Old Masters sales [Apr 06]

Within the Painting segment, Old Masters works have always been considered as safe-haven assets, compared with modern or contemporary works. And the figures tend to confirm this trend. While prices for modern and contemporary paintings have climbed 33.2% and 41.1% respectively since April 2001, demand for pre-19th century paintings is today at the same level as five years ago.
And yet, despite this relative stability, Old Masters works can also be extremely speculative, particularly if the pieces are of exceptional quality. Furthermore, the highest bid so far this season was made at an Old Masters sale. William TURNER's painting entitled Giudecca, La Donna della Salute et San Giorgio, the highlight at Christie's Old Masters paintings sale in New York sold for USD 32 million on 6 April, setting a new record for a British painting.

Considered as the finest Turner work to have come onto the market in recent years, the large format (61 x 91.5 cm) oil painting represents a view of Venice! However, these same views of Venice, but by Italian artists this time, have generally been the star lots at Old Masters auctions of late. These veduti (views) of Venice are in high demand at auctions, often exceeding the 1 million euro mark.
Works by Antonio Canal CANALETTO claimed the highest bids in 2005 with a record of GBP 16.6 million for Venice, the Grand Canal, looking North-East from Palazzo Balbi at Sotheby's London on 7 July. This painting was originally owned by Sir Robert Walpole, a former British Prime Minister, who sold it at an auction in 1751.
On 22 June, during the sale of Old Masters paintings, the Paris-based auction house Tajan, will offer an exceptional Vue de Venise by Francesco GUARDI, estimated at EUR 2 million to EUR 2.5 million. This work could well fetch the highest price at an auction in France in 2006.

Between 2002 and 2005, prices of veduti gained on average +164%, and records are constantly being broken. While Luca Carlevaris is considered as the father of veduti, it is Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as "Canaletto" who was responsible for making the genre so popular by practically industrialising the production of veduti in Venice and their sale to foreign tourists. Canaletto holds the record for the two most expensive veduti. On top of his record of 7 July, the previous evening at Christie's, a work by Canaletto entitled The Bucintoro at the Molo Venice, on Ascension Day, a masterpiece from the Champalimaud collection, went under the hammer at GBP 10.2 million (EUR 15 million), thus doubling the pre-sale estimate. Already in January 2005, the sale of The Bacino di San Marco, looking east from the Mouth of the Giudecca for USD 4.7 million at Christie's reflects the high demand among collectors for his work. Overall Canaletto's price index jumped 86% over twelve months!

Until last July, Francesco Guardi had held the record for a vedute since 1 December 1989, when his View of the Giudecca Canal and the Zattere in Venise sold for FRF 85 million (EUR 13 million) at Sotheby's Monaco. Francesco worked with his brother Giovanni Antonio on numerous religious works. It was only after his brother's death in 1760 that his Venetian views started to become very popular. Concentrating on colour and spontaneous touch, he was one of the most prolific artists of his era. Almost twenty paintings come up for auction every year. On 8 July 2005, The Grand Canal, Venice, with the Palazzo Bembo by Guardi was the star lot at Christie's sale. The painting from the John & Anna Jaffe collection, estimated at GBP 3 million to GBP 5 million, fetched GBP 3.9 million.
His paintings depicting imaginary scenes, capricci, were mostly small format, and almost one-half of these have sold for less than EUR 100,000 over the past ten years. However, hammer prices in this price range will eventually become rare as his price index has practically tripled in four years! For example, Capriccio with Ruins, a painting measuring 12.7 x 19 cm and estimated at USD 80,000 to USD 120,000 sold for USD 140,000 (EUR 116,000) on 26 January 2006 at Sotheby's.

Guardi and Canaletto are not the only artists to have enjoyed such high bidding for their works. A new record was set for Luca CARLEVARIS on 7 July 2005 when his painting Venice, a View of the Molo with the Doge's Palace looking West sold for GBP 2 million. The Piazza San Marco, Venice, a work by Bernardo BELLOTTO, Canaletto's nephew and assistant, was auctioned at USD 4.2 million on 26 January. The same work, originally authenticated as one of Canaletto's works, sold for GBP 950,000 in December 1995.

HYPERREALISM - "Clichés" of reality… [Apr 06]

Hyperrealism, which emerged in the USA in the 60s, inherits its attachment to a banal everyday version of reality from Pop art. The artists draw their subjects from real life; but it is a “second-hand” real life, because they do not create their works directly in front of the person or thing they are depicting, but from photographs. They demonstrate a great, often laborious, technical virtuosity, to transcribe a reality that has been examined under a microscope. Although the hyperrealists have in common the effort they make to achieve a mimetic reproduction, they are distinguished from one another by the choice of themes that they tackle. Chuck Close focuses his attention on faces, John Salt on cars, John de Andrea on nudes, Duane Hanson on middle-class Americans, Richard Estes on urban landscapes, and so on.

Prices for Chuck CLOSE are exploding in the US! Between 2004 and 2005, they shot up by 90% although it has to be said that none of his oils or acrylics appeared in the sale rooms during 2004, and the first auctioned in 2005 was a monumental portrait entitled John dated 1971-72 which set a new record of USD 4,300,000 (EUR 3,348,840) for the artist (254 x 228.6 cm, Sotheby’s NY). Close’s large scale works thus sell for well over a million euros; but a study for John found a buyer at the same sale for USD 170,000 (EUR 132,396). Even more affordable, a Maquette for Alex, assembled from various media including a Polaroid, will be available for USD 20,000 (EUR 15,744) at the May 2006 sales at Phillips, de Pury & Company NY.
The manifest craze for Close’s paintings places him ahead of the movement’s two other major figures: the sculptors Duane HANSON and John Louis DeANDREA. These two artists excel in sculptural trompe l’oeil, but their works have never reached a million dollars in a public sale. Their work has been increasingly present on the market in recent years: of a total of 24 Duane Hanson sculptures ever offered at auctions, half of them went under the hammer between 2003 and 2005 in the EUR 100,000 - EUR 250,000 price bracket. Since 2003, the market has also taken up the works of De Andrea again. However, after an absence of 5 years from the public market, his life-size fibreglass figures cost around 50 times less than those of his older peer Duane Hanson.

There are hyperrealist artists in Europe, such as Frantz Gertsch, Jean Olivier Hucleux and Gerad Schlosser. The low number of works that come up for auction is largely due to a very limited production due to the artists’ slow and meticulous techniques.
Franz Gertsch’s overall portfolio of paintings amounts to less than 100 works on canvas since 1969! Lovers of his work therefore focus their attention on prints, which are much more numerous. Thus, Pestwurzelblatt, a colour print in an edition of 80 was sold at auction by Dobiaschofsky in Bern for EUR 1,684 in 2005. In 2002 the same auction house put an early work in oil on canvas of a similar size on sale (Sonniger Weg zwischen Bäumen, 1946), which was sold for a lower price: EUR 1,025. Gertsch thus sells for less than Schlosser and Hucleux for whom one would have to pay between EUR 10,000 and EUR 20,000 for an accomplished work of a good size.
Following the example of Chuck Close, Jean Olivier Hucleux has a feeling for faces and is also very popular. Hucleux’s monumental works are in public and private collections which they leave only on a temporary basis. In his case too, few major works reach the market, with only works on paper available. From a simple study to a portrait in graphite more than 2 metres high, there is a great variation in prices: from EUR 500 to EUR 20,000!
The prices for European artists are still a long way from those for the American figureheads. The prices they reach at auction do, however, reach those of less well-known hyperrealists such as Richard Cottingham, Don Eddy or Robert Bechtle.

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Creative Kids Make Intelligent Adults: A Must in the Business World


by Alberta S. Johnson

Over and over, research shows that kids who receive art lessons while they are young become more imaginative and creative adults. As you may know, creativity is an essential part of intelligence, and is often used as a gauge for measuring IQ.

With increasing demands being placed upon schools, teachers, and youth groups to educate our kids in the three R's, education in the arts has begun to suffer in many areas of the country in favor of the "more important" or "more practical" subjects.

What people need to understand is that art education in schools IS important, and in fact essential to form well-rounded adults. In the business world, for example, people who are creative are much more likely to find success. Creativity allows for innovation, a vital characteristic in today's business executive. To stay ahead of the game, for example, a business must be able to initiate and adapt to change. Both of these things are impossible without creativity, which is best learned at an early age.

Any successful business starts with an idea, and a good idea is innovative, different, and creative. It speaks to a certain audience and makes people stand up and take notice. If you lack the creativity to come up with such an idea, you're not likely to do very well.

Now, consider some of the most memorable marketing campaigns in recent history. What do they all have in common? Creativity; creativity that must be instilled at an early age, and is most effectively taught in school.

Art lessons are very time consuming to prepare, and many teachers feel that they lack the artistic ability or creativity to teach art. The reality is however, that they really don't need to be creative geniuses themselves to teach art in their classrooms.

Educators who feel that help is needed can turn to plenty of outside sources for aid. By doing just a little bit of homework themselves, teachers and parents can find people, groups, and even companies who are ready and willing to come to the rescue. Taking advantage of this help can save hours of time and energy, and provide a much-needed educational benefit.

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The Basics of Collecting Art: Fine Sculpture

by Shannon Southway

To assist those who love art & fine craft to make a purchase or add to a beginning collection.

Fine sculpture is a staple of the art world. Many, however, mistakenly find it to be something reserved for museums and professional collectors. They may find it too large or delicate for home or personal display. On the contrary, sculpture is a fine art that should be enjoyed by anyone who appreciates emotionally rich and ascetically pleasing art. The next time you attend an art fair or browse through an online gallery consider a fine sculpture purchase.

Here is some information to assist you:

What is fine sculpture?
Sculptures are created when an artist carves, assembles, or molds a given material, resulting in either a freestanding object or a relief. The sculptor is able to combine technique with an innate ability to pour emotion into the creation. Sculptures come in a wide array of size and composition.

Carving is sometimes done using marble or stone. The work is physically enduring and requires a skilled practitioner who uses complex versions of the hammer and chisel. Wood carving also can be done with a hammer/ chisel technique or with the use of a sharp knife. Carving can produce beautifully detailed results.

Clay modeling uses a very pliable and relatively inexpensive material that can be built up to create detail rich sculptures, then fired in a kiln to obtain permanent shape. New York sculptor Alacia Stubbs
explains, "Clay has been a very gracious medium for me, facilitating my self-discovery as an artist." Sometimes painted, clay allows for optimal creativity and versatility as seen in Stubbs botanical
pieces. At times, clay can be used to create a "mold" for use with plaster or bronze.

Plaster sculptures start with the creation of an armature. This "skeleton" is a rough base made of steel or hard wire. Paper or fiber is drenched in a mixture of plaster and water and then wrapped around the armature, with layers of the plaster mixture on top. Once dryed, a large semi-wet piece of plaster of rough shape is then carved with sharp tools to achieve the desired outcome. The piece can be painted or finished with a light varnish for protection. At times, the plaster sculpture is used as the cast for a bronze mold.

Bronze casting can be achieved through sand-casting but most often through the lost-wax process. This process, used since antiquity, uses a molded form that is covered with rubber and allowed to harden.
The inner piece is removed and the two rubber molds joined to create a whole. The rubber is filled with liquified wax which is allowed to cool and harden resulting in a replica of the original piece. Covered
in plaster, the inner wax is melted away. Finally, melted bronze is poured into the shell. Once cooled, the plaster shell is carefully chipped away and the finished piece is buffed for imperfections. The process is long, precise and dependent on the size of the piece, requires much manpower.

Wax molding is a popular sculpting method. Sigi Eurich of Sigi Jewelry Design, San Francisco, shares her process: "A carved wax model is encased in plaster of Paris. Once dried it is burned out in an oven. The resulting negative mold is then used to receive the precious metal of either [14k gold or sterling silver]." Sigi's mini-sculptures are perfect for display or as part of her unique jewelry offering.

Assemblage/ construction sculpture is sometimes known as mixed media or `found object' art. Objects of various construction, including paper, wood, glass and even `junk' can be assembled in a collage-like
manner on a canvas or to create a three-dimensional object. This type of sculpture is a relatively recent addition to the artworld, becoming popular in the 20th century. Assemblage can be very unique with original ideas abound.

How to care for your purchase.
Every sculpture is as unique as its materials so care instructions will vary. Be sure to obtain care instructions from the artist, most will be able to give you some direction based on the materials used.
Some basic instructions will apply to most sculptures.

If your sculpture is appropriate for the outdoors it is better to keep it in a dry shady area away from constant direct sunlight. Plaster does not fair well outdoors over time. Steel and iron may be subject to rusting if outside or exposed to moisture so the artist may be able to protect your piece with urethane.

Indoors, keep the sculpture away from woodstoves and fireplaces. Always use a clean, dry and soft cloth to dust the piece, never using furniture polish, glass cleaner or water unless specifically directed
by the artist as some finishes are sealed with a synthetic lacquer finish. A thorough dusting and wiping away of fingerprints with a clean, dry, cotton cloth is usually the only basic maintenance required.

Use bold lighting and background to enhance the piece and make it a focal point. And, it may go without saying, but if your sculpture is breakable keep it in a safe place where it can be enjoyed visually but won't be disturbed by children or pets.

Now enjoy.
Making a fine art purchase allows you to display your emotions and feelings for all to see. It will be become a conversation piece, an heirloom and a source of pride. If you find the purchase process
enjoyable, attend a spring art fair or browse online for more selections. You might find another piece to add to your collection or perhaps choose to give the gift of art to a special person in your life.

Only some of the more commonly found types of sculpture have been described here, for more information visit galleries such as Artists' Heaven (http://www.artistsheaven.com) where you can see the work of Alacia Stubbs and Sigi Eurich. For more insight into the community of sculptors use a resource such as Sculpture Magazine (http://www.sculpture.org).

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Shannon Southway is the Director of Strategic Relations & Quality Assurance for E-Integration, Inc., a provider of Information Technology products and solutions. E-Integration owns and operates Artists' Heaven, an art emarketplace. Shannon can be reached at shannon@e-integration.net or cs@artistsheaven.com.
 

 

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