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$54 million Jackson Pollock painting discovered during Bulgaria art smuggling probe – New York Post
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Madonna beseeched by France’s Amiens mayor to loan painting lost in WWI
That connection? Madonna, Fouré said, may have purchased in 1989 a 19th-century work of art — “Diana and Endymion” by Jérôme-Martin Langlois — that went missing from the Amiens fine-art museum more than a century ago amid the heavy bombardment of World War I.
And now, the city wants it back on loan as it seeks to be named a “European Capital of Culture” for 2028 by the European Union. It’s a designation that includes a celebration of arts and heritage, and that normally brings a boost in tourism.
But it’s unclear if Madonna even bought the painting — or if what she allegedly has is merely a replica.
This month, France’s Le Figaro newspaper published a report on the painting’s history and what it said was Madonna’s apparent acquisition of it at a New York auction 34 years ago. Representatives for the singer did not respond to requests for comment.
Sotheby’s associate press officer Adrienne DeGisi told The Washington Post that the fine-arts company and broker could not comment on who bought the painting. A copy of the original October 1989 catalogue, provided by DeGisi, describes the painting sold by Sotheby’s as a “replica” with the same title and identical dimensions of the original Langlois painting, “now destroyed.”
The price of the sale at the time, she added, was $440,000. The catalogue entry also cites the artist’s descendant Marianne Froté-Langlois, whom DeGisi said “considered the painting to be a replica of the lost Amiens original.”
Le Figaro said that a museum curator spotted the painting in an image of the inside of Madonna’s home published by Paris Match, a weekly magazine, in 2015. It had long been considered untraceable — or even destroyed in the war.
The newspaper noted, however, that the painting lacked a signature and a stamp. It also reported that the dimensions of the original painting and the one that was sold differed by about 3 centimeters, or 1.2 inches.
The painting depicts three figures: the Roman goddess Diana, shepherd prince Endymion and a small Cupid-like figure floating between them. It was commissioned by Louis XVIII in the early 19th century and was meant to hang at Versailles, Le Figaro reported.
Fouré urged the residents of Amiens to echo her call to bring the painting back home for a while.
“Amienois, Amiénis, you also have a role to play,” she said in the video. “Share this message massively so it reaches Madonna! I’m counting on you!”
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New Final Fantasy Remake Has A Getty Watermark In A Painting
Crisis Core – Final Fantasy VII – Reunion was released today and is a solid remastering/remake of a beloved PSP title. But at least one painting in the new game contains a li’l something extra: a Getty Images watermark, implying that the in-game painting was created using an image preview taken directly from that service’s website.
In our review posted earlier today, we noted that the new remake is a faithful adaptation of the original PSP game, complete with flaws that come about from being overly dedicated to being a perfect prequel. And like the original, while the first half or so of the game is solid, the ending makes for a “disappointing conclusion.” It’s a damn good-looking remake nonetheless. However, we’ve noticed that the new visuals come with a new mistake, in the form of a watermark left on at least three instances of an in-game painting.
During chapter eight of the game, you’ll enter a Shinra mansion. In this very nice-looking and opulent home you’ll find many fancy paintings hanging on the walls. Look closely and you’ll discover these are real paintings. Look a little closer and you’ll clearly see where Square Enix grabbed the art from.
Yup, that’s a big old Getty Images watermark right in the middle of it. I was able to track down the exact painting that Square Enix grabbed using our own Getty account. It’s a piece by artist John Crowther depicting Ludgate Circus in London in 1881.
Kotaku has reached out to Square Enix but didn’t hear back before publication.
Read More: Crisis Core – Final Fantasy VII – Reunion: The Kotaku Review
It appears that whoever grabbed this image from Getty—and possibly didn’t pay to license it, as the watermark is still there—stretched it out and cropped most of its top to make it fit in the frame. And this isn’t a one-off error. The resulting painting appears at least three times in this area of the game complete with the Getty watermark. Whoops!
This isn’t the first time a big Square Enix RPG has shipped with a mistaken watermark included. Kingdom Hearts III also included a watermark during one cutscene. However, that was a “blink and you’ll miss it moment” and not an easy-to-find painting that appears multiple times and can be seen clearly by anyone paying attention. If you want to see this mistake yourself, I’d go to the mansion sooner than later, as I imagine Square Enix will be patching it out shortly.
Art Industry News: Two Climate Activists Slapped With a Nominal Fine for Gluing a Dystopian Image Onto a Famous Constable Painting + Other Stories
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, December 7.
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Miami Beach Sculpture Sparks Controversy – The public is debating whether the government should use city funds to buy art after Miami Beach bought a $80,000 installation by Cuban artist Juana Valdés consisting of 12 porcelain rags. (Axios)
Breast Milk Performance Gets Artist Kicked Out of Fair – Anonymous conceptual artist OONA was kicked out of Satellite Art Show for staging a guerilla performance entitled MILKING THE ARTIST, in which they produced breast milk in front of an audience and then put glasses of milk up for auction. (Paper)
Climate Activists Found Guilty in Glue Stunt – A U.K. district judge has convicted two Just Stop Oil protesters of causing criminal damage to John Constable’s The Hay Wain at the National Gallery in London. The activists, who taped posters of a dystopian version of the painting over its vitrine before gluing themselves to the frame, must pay £1,000 in damages. (Evening Standard)
Patti Wong Steps Down at Sotheby’s – After more than 30 years, Sotheby’s international chairman is retiring. She helped grow the auction house’s business in Asia to more than $1 billion annually. “Though I am stepping down—I will never go far,” Wong said. “Sotheby’s runs in my blood; we will always stay close.” (The Value)
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Met Gets $10 Million Donation – Philanthropist Adrienne Arsht donated $10 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to benefit the Met Live Art series, which is dedicated to contemporary performance. She gifted the department $5 million in 2020. (The Art Newspaper)
Estonia Unveils Plans for 2024 Venice Biennale Pavilion – Sculptor Edith Karlson will represent Estonia at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Maria Arusoo, director of the Estonian Center for Contemporary Art in Tallinn, is commissioning the pavilion. (ARTnews)
Toronto Biennial of Art Names Curatorial Team – Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López will co-curate the forthcoming biennial, slated to take place September 21 through December 1, 2024. (Press release)
Inaugural Prince Claus Impact Awardees Announced – The recipients of the first-ever impact awards include dissident Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Moroccan artist Hassan Darsi, Argentinian writer and prison abolition activist María Medrano, and Egyptian architect May al-Ibrashy. (Contemporary&)
FOR ARTS SAKE
Damien Hirst Sculptures Decorate New Mayfair Restaurant – Five monumental statues by Hirst decorate the trendy new London eatery, including a winged lion, a unicorn, a Medusa, and a Bacchus. Accompanying murals by artist Gary Myatt put a White Lotus-style twist on Thomas Couture’s 1847 painting Romans in their Decadence. (dezeen)
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Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years | Piet Mondrian
A painting by abstract Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in various museums since it was first put on display 75 years ago, an art historian has found, but warned it could disintegrate if it was hung the right side up now.
The 1941 picture, a complex interlacing lattice of red, yellow, black and blue adhesive tapes titled New York City I, was first put on display at New York’s MoMA in 1945 but has hung at the art collection of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf since 1980.
The way the picture is currently hung shows the multicoloured lines thickening at the bottom, suggesting an extremely simplified version of a skyline. However, when curator Susanne Meyer-Büser started researching the museum’s new show on the Dutch avant garde artist earlier this year, she realised the picture should be the other way around.
“The thickening of the grid should be at the top, like a dark sky,” said Meyer-Büser. “Once I pointed it out to the other curators, we realised it was very obvious. I am 100% certain the picture is the wrong way around.”
Indicators suggesting an incorrect hanging are multifold. The similarly named and same-sized oil painting, New York City, which is on display in Paris at the Centre Pompidou, has the thickening of lines at the top.
A photograph of Mondrian’s studio, taken a few days after the artist’s death and published in American lifestyle magazine Town and Country in June 1944, also shows the same picture sitting on an easel the other way up.
Meyer-Büser said it was likely that Mondrian worked by starting his intricate layering with a line right at the top of the frame and then worked his way down, which would also explain why some of the yellow lines stop a few millimetres short of the bottom edge.
“Was it a mistake when someone removed the work from its box? Was someone being sloppy when the work was in transit?”, the curator said. “It’s impossible to say.”
Part of the problem is that unlike most of Mondrian’s earlier works, New York City I does not bear the artist’s signature, possibly because he hadn’t deemed it finished.
In spite of all the evidence pointing to the work being currently displayed upside down, the work will be shown the way it has hung for 75 years in the new Mondrian. Evolution show that opens in Düsseldorf on Saturday.
Colossal Andy Warhol painting of a car crash could sell for over $80 million
Andy Warhol may be best known for his pop art iconography of Marilyn Monroe, Chairman Mao and Campbell’s soup cans, but next month, a “haunting” silkscreen print of a mangled car crash will be up for sale at Sotheby’s in New York. Going under the hammer on November 16 during the auction house’s marquee week, It is expected to sell for upwards of $80 million, according to a press statement.
“White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times)” is a colossal image Warhol made in 1963 as part of his “Death and Disaster” series. At the time, Warhol had become transfixed with gruesome and morbid images — atomic bomb clouds, electric chairs — and how widely print publications reproduced them, believing that readers had become immune to their impact. Of all his work, the series most explicitly dealt with his fixation on human mortality.
A rare, large-scale Andy Warhol silkscreen is coming to auction in November. Credit: Brownie Harris/Corbis Historical/Getty Images
In “White Disaster,” Warhol duplicated a single image of an automobile accident 19 times in black and white. At 12 feet tall and 6 feet wide, it is the largest of his car crash works.
“What distinguishes (the painting) is not only its immense scale, which really bewilders anybody who stands in front of it … but also its palette,” explained David Galperin, Sotheby’s head of contemporary art in New York, adding that Warhol repeated his image in the series in different tonalities, including lavender and orange. “It really seems to glow, the way that the black silk screen is registered against the sharp white background.”
“There is a power to feeling dwarfed within this image,” said David Galperin, head of contemporary art at Sotheby’s New York. Credit: Courtesy of Sotheby’s
Galperin compared the piece’s scale and shape to religious altarpieces, referencing Warhol’s Catholic upbringing and the religious undercurrents in his work — particularly how religious icon paintings informed his celebrity portraits. Warhol worked on the “Death and Disaster” series at the same time that he was screenprinting his famed images of Monroe after her death in 1962.
“These ideas of celebrity, tragedy, fame, death — these are the themes that occupied Warhol and I think that the series he was working on simultaneously, the Marilyn paintings and the “Death and Disaster paintings, are intricately linked,” Galperin said.
“Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)” set a record when it cracked $100 million in 2013. Credit: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
In 2013, a smaller work from the series, “Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)” sold at Sotheby’s for a record-breaking $105.4 million. It reigned as Warhol’s most expensive artwork until last year, when a 40-inch silkscreen of Monroe shattered the record for any American artist, reaching $195 million.
Leading up to the sale, “White Disaster” will exhibit at Sotheby’s New York from November 4-16. It has been held in a private collection for 25 years, and was previously owned by Heiner Friedrich, founder of Dia Art Foundation, and art dealer Thomas Ammann, according to Sotheby’s. It has appeared in major exhibitions about Warhol and pop art more broadly at Tate Museum in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and most recently, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Van Gogh self-portrait found hidden behind another painting
LONDON (AP) — A previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh has been discovered behind another of the artist’s paintings, the National Galleries of Scotland said Thursday.
The self-portrait was found on the back of Van Gogh’s “Head of a Peasant Woman” when experts at the Edinburgh gallery took an X-ray of the canvas ahead of an upcoming exhibition. The work is believed to have been hidden for over a century, covered by layers of glue and cardboard when it was framed in the early 20th century.
Van Gogh was known for turning canvases around and painting on the other side to save money.
The portrait shows a bearded sitter in a brimmed hat. Experts said the subject was instantly recognizable as the artist himself, and is thought to be from his early work. The left ear is clearly visible and Van Gogh famously cut his off in 1888.
Frances Fowle, a senior curator at the National Galleries of Scotland, said the discovery was “thrilling.”
“Moments like this are incredibly rare,” she said. “We have discovered an unknown work by Vincent Van Gogh, one of the most important and popular artists in the world.”
The gallery said experts are evaluating how to remove the glue and cardboard without harming “Head of a Peasant Woman.”
Visitors to an upcoming Impressionist exhibit at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh can see an X-ray image of the self-portrait through a lightbox.
“A Taste for Impressionism” runs from Jul. 30 to Nov. 13.