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Di Donna Brings Calder & Miró to Art Basel in December

November 20, 2018 by Marion Maneker

Alexander Calder, Crag with Yellow Boomerang and Red Eggplant (1974)
Di Donna Galleries has released its presentation for Art Basel Miami Beach which begins a little later this year due to the early arrival of Thanksgiving. Some art market denizens’ families will be extra thankful this year for the lower stress levels. Here’s a list of what Di Donna is bringing to the fair:
  • A striking standing mobile by Alexander Calder, Crag with Yellow Boomerang and Red Eggplant (1974), which playfully engages the tension between the concrete and ephemeral aspects of nature, as floating and bouncing elements ring a jagged, dark mountain shape.
  • Leonor Fini’s painting La Prison de Zigriphine (1975), an exquisite demonstration of Fini’s mastery of enigmatic portraiture and her technical skill in rendering light and translucency.
  • Le Combat (de Tancrède et de Clorinde) (1934) by Kurt Seligmann, a dynamic painting featuring figures cloaked in swirling drapery that conjures the movement of drama and combat.
  • Rudolf Bauer’s Counter Fugue (1937-38), which exemplifies the artist’s use of music as a metaphor in geometric compositions, representing the crescendos and rests that naturally occur in the physical world.
  • Joan Miró’s Figure with Bird (1977). Miró challenged the tradition of painting in general by eliminating traces of illusionism at the level of construction. In Figure with Bird, he left visible the wood support and a perimeter of protruding nails around expressive brushwork in primary colors, leaving the subject abstractly rendered.
  • The gallery will also present significant works by Agustín Cárdenas, Leonora Carrington, César, Lynn Chadwick, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Auguste Herbin, David Hockney, Hans Hofmann, Wassily Kandinsky, François-Xavier Lalanne, Claude Lalanne, René Magritte, André Masson, Matta, Joan Mitchell, Man Ray, Charles Green Shaw, Georges Valmier, and Andy Warhol.

Edward Tyler Nahem Brings Massive Rauschenberg to Art Basel in Miami

November 23, 2017 by Marion Maneker

Robert Rauschenberg, Periwinkle Shaft

Edward Tyler Nahem gallery is upping the ante for Art Basel in Miami Beach starting December 7th by giving over half of its booth to Robert Rauschenberg’s massive 30ft x 14ft work, Periwinkle Shaft. Nahem has a substantial seven-figure asking price for the work commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts for placement at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The work comes from one of Rauschenberg’s most prolific periods (1975-1981) when he was making the so-called Spreads.

“The Spreads, laid out in grid like, usually rectangular patterns, refer back to Rauschenberg’s silkscreen paintings in that they are filled with colorful imagery from magazines,” wrote Mary Lynn Kotz in her monograph, Rauschenberg/Art and Life. “The canvas or fabric had been laminated onto mahogany panels by using matte medium (an acrylic) adhesive and iron-on heat glue. […] Nearly every Spread has some eccentricity of shape. […] Sheets of transparent colored acrylic and colored Plexiglas mirrors entered his store of materials in the series; concealed neon and other kinds of electric lighting gave most of the new Spreads a colorful glow.”

Update: An earlier version of this post appeared in the AMM newsletter with an error describing the work as priced at a “substantial eight-figure” sum. That was a typo. The correct version is above reflecting the work’s seven-figure asking price.

Artelligence Podcast: Back Stage at Art Basel in Miami Beach

December 23, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Each year 30,000 visitors arrive in Miami for the Art Basel fair. Many are art dealers and art collectors looking to buy or build relationships. But Art Basel in Miami Beach is also the art market’s trade convention or annual Christmas party, take your pick.

In this podcast, we speak to 8 different attendees about why they come to Art Basel and what they do at the fair. You’ll hear from auction house professionals and appraisers, art lawyers and magazine publishers, the creator of Artsy’s activation and a museum director.

Featured in this podcast are:Continue Reading

Kenny Schachter Prices the Market

December 6, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Kenny Schachter has been taking notes at Art Basel in Miami Beach. This time, he’s also reporting on the prices of the art:Continue Reading

The Deal’s Not Done Until The Artist Gets Paid

December 6, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Detail of “mixed emotions (mood rings)” on view next week at @fredricsnitzergallery “tropical depression” opens Thursday preview 11 -1pm…

A photo posted by Hernan Bas (@hernanbas) on Nov 25, 2016 at 6:10pm PST

It’s time for the Art Basel in Miami Beach you-are-there stories of artists, dealers and collectors. The NYTimes’s Brett Sokol has a good fly-on-the-wall account of Miami dealer Fred Snitzer’s successful week that included strong sales of Hernan Bas’s work.

Both Bas and Snitzer are examples of local Miami-mad-good stories. But lurking in the narrative is a reminder of how precarious art-world careers can be.

Snitzer is no longer Bas’s primary gallery:Continue Reading

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