11 avril 2009

Envie de découvrir les collections permanentes en toute tranquillité ? Marre des interminables files d’attente en journée ? Soif de culture après une longue journée de travail ? Ou tout simplement, envie d’un bon restaurant dans un cadre agréable ? Voici un recensement des musées parisiens ouverts le soir. LUNDI Centre Georges Pompidou : ouvert jusqu’à 21h. Fermeture des caisses à 20h. Évacuation des salles à 20h45. Restaurant : service assuré jusqu’à 00h45. Fermeture à 2h. Café Mezzanine : ouvert jusqu'à 20h30.Librairie :... [Lire la suite]

Yves Oppenheim BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary will present recent large-scale paintings and wall paintings by Yves Oppenheim at OsramHöfe. The French painter Yves Oppenheim designed the architecture of the exhibition using the wall painting as the most important element. The canvasses are installed directly on the wall paintings, which appear as the background or frame. The works interact in colour and form, creating a relief-like installation. The abstract colourful paintings gain visual depth through the swinging and... [Lire la suite]

© Sotheby's HONG KONG (CHINE) – [10.04.09] – Sotheby’s a réalisé un chiffre d’affaire de 89 millions de dollars à la session de printemps à Hong Kong, en baisse de 36 % par rapport à l’an dernier. Le marché de l’art asiatique a été le théâtre privilégié de la flambée des prix depuis 2005. C’est donc en toute logique le premier à subir le réajustement provoqué par la crise. Après la vente de cinq jours à Hong Kong qui offrait aussi bien des antiquités et des bijoux que des œuvres d’art contemporain, Sotheby’s enregistre un... [Lire la suite]

Roberto Capucci . La donna gioiello[Woman jewel]. Black red and white taffetas, mask in red fibreglass, red white and black headcap, red and white brass enamel strings. Costume by Roberto Capucci for the Venice Carneval Kindly donated by the artist to the Fortuny Museum, February 1984 . Photo: Andrea Melzi and Efrat Kuper Roberto Capucci and Mariano Fortuny: artistic forms and ideas.Mariano – painter, set designer, inventor of lights and costumes, alchemist of fabric prints; Roberto – artist-architect, creator of complex forms... [Lire la suite]

Jan Bruegel le Jeune (1601-1678), Le Départ du convoi, cuivre, 23,4 x 30,6 cm. 210 500 € frais compris.  Roubaix, lundi 30 mars.  May Duhamel & Associés SVV. Cabinet Turquin.

Gonzales Coques (1614-1684), “An unfinished portrait of a man posting a letter, in an interior”, 1640, 56 x 44 cm, Oil on canvas, Private Collection, Belgium VENICE.- The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Vervoordt Foundation announce Infinitum, taking place in the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice from 6 June until 15 November, 2009. With In-finitum, the trilogy which started with Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art (Venice, 2007) and continued with Academia: Qui es-tu? (Paris, 2008) will come full circle. Once again set in the... [Lire la suite]

Laconie, vers 550-540 av. J.-C. Canthare à figures noires, orné d’une frise continue sur fond blanc d’une scène de comastes, terre cuite vernissée noire, pigment blanc et rehauts de peinture rouge, h 15,1 cm. 110 400 € frais compris. Vannes, samedi 4 avril. Jack-Philippe Ruellan SVV. M. Kunicki.

Xiang Yuanbian, 1525-1590, China, Ming dynasty, Landscape after a Poem by Ji Kang, undated. Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, 40 7/10 x 19 1/5 inches. Wan-go H.C. Weng Collection. © The Huntington. SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens highlights one of the greatest private collections of Chinese art in the nation with the presentation of “Treasures through Six Generations: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Weng Collection,” on view April 11–July 12, 2009, in the Mary Lou... [Lire la suite]

Annunciation, painted by Fra Angelico (1387-1455) (Florence) ROME.- Palazzo dei Caffarelli presents today The Blessed Angelico - The Dawn of the Renaissance, on view through July 5, 2009. The largest exhibition to be entirely dedicated to “the Blessed Angelico”, as he is often known in Italy, since the monographic staged in the Vatican and Florence in 1955 (part of the centennial celebrations at the time). Rounding up the celebrations to mark the 550th anniversary of the death of one of the leading lights of the early... [Lire la suite]

La peinture, c'est très facile quand vous ne savez pas comment faire. Quand vous le savez, c'est très difficile. Edgard Degas Painting is easy when you don't know, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Degas