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Ropac Has Longo, Rosenquist and Castoro at Frieze LA

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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is bringing a selection of works to Frieze LA including this Rosemary Castoro, above, work on offer for $200,000.

  • Rosemarie Castoro, a pioneer in the context of Minimalism and Conceptualism and a central figure in the 1960s New York avant-garde, is represented with one of her exceptional early paintings Orange Ochre Purple Yellow Y (1965). Long overshadowed by her male peers, Castoro is a revelation to today’s audiences. Her first museum retrospective was at MACBA in 2017 and her solo show at Ropac Paris opens on 21 February.

Other featured artists include Irving Penn, Robert Longo with a new work specifically for this fair, Jack Pierson and Tom Sachs. There will also be new works by Ali Banisadr, Marc Brandenburg, Alex Katz, Imi Knoebel, Jason Martin and David Salle, alongside historic works by Joseph Beuys, Rosemarie Castoro, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol, among others.

  • A rare, sought-after silkscreen portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe (1980) by Andy Warhol, which has been housed in private collection for three decades, commemorates the historic meeting in 1979 between the Pop superstar and the doyenne of American modernism then in her 90s.
  • Robert Longo’s monumental, larger-than-life Untitled (Harley Davidson) (2018) was created specially for the fair, using charcoal striations to convey the motion blur of a vehicle travelling at high speed.
  • In James Rosenquist’s major work Hot Sauce (2005), a plate of spaghetti against the backdrop of an exploding atom bomb.

Phillips to Open “American African American” Selling Exhibition in New York

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New Year, new selling exhibition. Phillips starts the off season in New York with a selling exhibition of African American artists. During the November sales season at Phillips a steady stream of African Americans visited the pre-auction exhibition of works posing for selfies in front of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and KAWS. The KAWS painting Untitled (Fatal Group), which depicts characters inspired by Bill Cosby’s Fat Albert cartoon show, went on to surprise almost everyone when it set a record for the artist at $2.7m or three times the high estimate of $900k.

This new exhibition will feature works by Charles Alston, John Outterbridge, Romare Bearden, Betye Saar, Fred Wilson and Cameron Welch. Kehinde Wiley’s Passing/Posing: Jean de Carodelet (2004) pictured above is among the paintings on offer. Here’s Phillips release on the show:

Phillips is pleased to announce the major exhibition AMERICAN AFRICAN AMERICAN. Open to the public from 10 January to 8 February, the exhibition will kick off 2019 at Phillips New York galleries. Curated by Arnold Lehman, Phillips’ Senior Advisor and Director Emeritus of the Brooklyn Museum, the 2019 exhibition in New York continues the important mission of a similar exhibition organized in 2017 by Lehman in London, which took a closer look at the art historical and social impact of the 26 African American artists featured. In conjunction with the exhibition, Phillips will host a panel discussion on 14 January with Arnold Lehman in conversation with Brooklyn curator Ashley James, writer, critic and artist Deborah Willis, and Sandra Jackson-Dumont, chair of education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and formerly of the Studio Museum. The discussion will focus on the artistic changes and social implications from the 1960s to today as seen through the lens of both the Tate’s exhibition Soul of a Nation, currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum, and AMERICAN AFRICAN AMERICAN.

Covering the period of 1950 to today with over 60 artists, “AMERICAN AFRICAN AMERICAN — likely the largest selling exhibition of African American artists to date — clearly articulates the increasing and exceptional importance of African American art and artists within the art historical canon. It gives proper recognition to these extraordinary artists of the mid-20th and early 21st centuries alongside their contemporaries,” said Arnold Lehman. “The considerably smaller 2017 exhibition in London was met with a great deal of enthusiasm from collectors and the general public alike, and we are delighted to have the opportunity to bring a much broader cross-section of these amazingly talented artists to collectors and exhibition visitors from New York and beyond.”

Master Drawings Showcased in Manhattan in Late January

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Clockwise from upper left: Robert Simon Fine Art: Anthony Baus, Ruins of the Mithraic Mysteries, 2018;  Findlay Galleries: Childe Hassam, The Willow and the Bather; Hazlitt: Biagio delle Lame, Venus at the forge of Vulcan, asking for arms for Cupid; James Mackinnon: Henry Moore, The Artist’s Hands; Thomas Deprez: Frantz Charlet , Self-portrait of the artist

Master Drawings New York has offered a preview of some of the works that will be on view at galleries on the Upper East Side of Manhattan beginning January 26th. The event highlights 30 dealers ranging from Stephen Ongpin to Guy Peppiatt:

The event takes place from Saturday, January 26th through Saturday, February 2nd on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Some of the most influential names in the business, some exhibiting for the very first time, are dedicated to drawings, paintings, watercolors, sculpture and oil sketches from the 14th to the 21st centuries.

Now in its 13th year, the annual week-long event presents an exciting showcase of concurrent pop-up gallery exhibitions by visiting dealers from London, Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, Brussels and Vienna, and special presentations mounted in private gallery spaces by top New York specialists. These take place in galleries mostly along Madison Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Last year, MDNY expanded its reach to feature paintings and sculpture and offered collectors, curators and art lovers a spectacular selection of works presented by a broader range of specialist dealers. This has been even further strengthened in quality with some top names joining for the first time. They are Ambrose Naumann Fine Art (New York), Galerie Kugel (Paris), Jack Kilgore (New York), Leon Tovar (New York), Robert Simon (New York), Mark Brady (New York), Stuart Lochhead (London), Hazlitt (New York/London), Thomas Deprez Fine Art (Belgium), Pavel Zoubok (New York), Jeroen Jurjens (Amsterdam), Benjamin Proust (London).

Venus Over Manhattan Brings Maryan Personnage Paintings to Art Basel in Miami Beach

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Venus Over Manhattan announce their Art Basel Miami Beach exhibition of Maryan’s “Personnage” paintings from his time in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s:

Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to announce its inaugural presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach, with a solo presentation of important paintings by Maryan. The exhibition will be on view from December 5th through 9th, 2018, at booth S5 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Venus’ presentation at ABMB will be a focused survey of Maryan’s “Personnage” paintings from 1967-1972. They include large-scale works on canvas and an important suite of works on paper. Maryan began exploring the “Personnage” series while living in Paris in the 1950s. Characterized by a centrally located figure dominating the composition, the works quickly established Maryan’s reputation for using abstract techniques to render boisterously figurative subject matter. The paintings made in Maryan’s Paris years feature somber characters cast against subdued color palettes. It wasn’t until Maryan’s relocation from Paris to New York in 1963, that the “Personnage” works transition from dark to color and action filled: a clear reflection of the artist’s renewed outlook.

At a moment when non-representational painting dominated popular tastes, Maryan’s work rejected total abstraction, and helped to reintroduce the figure into contemporary painting, alongside his peers Karel Appel, Enrico Baj, and Jean Dubuffet. The works on view, produced in New York between 1967 and 1972, feature a group of lurid and fleshy characters, adjoined with extra legs, strange appendages, and slobbering tongues. Variously depicting anonymous tangles of excess limbs, bestial figures, and salivating animals, the works attest to Maryan’s abiding interest in disassembling familiar features of the human form to produce confrontational and often violent compositions.

Born Pinchas Burstein to a Jewish family in Nowy-Saçz, Poland, Maryan was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. He lived in Israel for two years after the war, and moved to Paris in 1951, where he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts, and studied under Fernand Léger. Though he denied the reduction of his work to his trauma as a Holocaust survivor, Maryan’s private life and artistic practice were deeply influenced by his experience of the war: his works from the “Personnage” series often make reference to an unnamed violence, whose source remains hidden. The “Personnage” works collectively represent the most striking realization of Maryan’s unprecedented fusion of abstraction and figuration, and with little exception, the series consumed the artist until his death at the Chelsea Hotel, in 1977.

In conjunction with the presentation, Venus Over Manhattan will also publish a small catalogue featuring images of the works on view, as well historical writings about Maryan’s work.

Koji Inoue to Join Hauser + Wirth in Summer 2019

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Koji Inoue

Koji Inoue is leaving Christie’s to join Hauser + Wirth where he will start in the Summer of 2019 supervising the 69th St townhouse and its exhibitions of historical artists on the secondary market:

Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth, and Marc Payot, Partners of Hauser & Wirth, today announced the appointment of Koji Inoue as International Senior Director Post War & Contemporary Art, based in New York. He will assume his post with the gallery in summer 2019.

In this newly created position, Inoue will collaborate closely with the gallery’s partners and staff to continue developing relationships with clients and consignors of important works of art from eminent collections worldwide. His appointment is part of Hauser & Wirth’s mission to give increased attention to historical and secondary market works of art, and to further expand this area of its business.

Inoue will also oversee Hauser & Wirth’s gallery space and viewing rooms at 32 East 69th Street in Manhattan. Under Inoue’s leadership, the former townhouse will become a platform exclusively for historical exhibitions – shows devoted both to artists whose estates are represented by the gallery and others aligned with the gallery’s artists and program, presented in context to further explore tendencies in postwar art.

Inoue joins Hauser & Wirth from Christie’s auction house, where he has served since 2008 and was most recently International Director, Specialist Post-War & Contemporary Art. In his years at Christie’s, Inoue became Global Head of Private Sales for his categories, redesigning the structure and strategy of private sales at an international level. He was previously Head of Client Intelligence and Strategic Development at the firm; before that was Head of the New York Evening Sale, where he orchestrated six consecutive world-record sales.

Inoue’s appointment follows that of fellow Christie’s alumna Liberté Nuti, who joined Hauser & Wirth in early fall 2018 as London-based International Senior Director of Impressionist & Modern. As global counterparts, Inoue and Nuti represent Hauser & Wirth’s commitment to the full spectrum of art from the 20th century to the present – from Impressionism to Contemporary – and the increased depth and breadth of expertise that will be applied to projects in Europe, the United States, and Asia.

‘With the appointment of Koji Inoue – and Liberté Nuti earlier this year – we are entering a new phase of our business,’ Iwan Wirth remarked. ‘Over the course of more than a quarter century, our gallery has supported research into and developed connoisseurship in the field of 20th century masterworks. And now our attention to this area is growing in truly exciting ways. Koji and Liberté bring firepower to our already significant, ongoing project to find and place exceptional works with the foremost collections worldwide. Our vision is to collaborate even more closely with private collectors, estates, families, and public museums and foundations to identify and
secure masterpieces that in turn enrich the story of art when they live together in collections.’ Wirth continued, ‘Some of Hauser & Wirth’s earliest exhibitions were devoted to Calder, Miró, Arp, Giacometti, and Picabia, and these artists have continued to be touchstones in our program years later. We have always successfully combined activities across the primary and secondary markets, the historical and the new. A core principle of our approach is that a strong 20th century program contextualizes the art of today, and the art
of the present re-contextualizes the art of the past. It’s a full circle, and we look forward to tracing it in many interesting ways with a dedicated space for historical exhibitions at our 69th Street gallery.’

Koji Inoue commented: ‘I am thrilled to join such a well-respected organization and become part of Hauser & Wirth’s world-class team.
I was attracted to the gallery as a place where innovation is prized, and I see ahead many great opportunities to engage the full spectrum of the primary and secondary markets through creative initiatives that connect the dots between our artists and the wider sweep of art history. We aim to provide the highest possible level of service to collectors, working with individuals in-depth and covering all ground to fulfil their needs, while bringing new ideas and connections to the discourse of art.’

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