Indholdsfortegnelse for November/December 2024 i Art & Antiques

OUTSTANDING IN provenance and artistry, these wine coolers were crafted by renowned English silversmith George Clements for William Gladstone, who served as England’s prime minister for several terms. The incredibly popular Gladstone presented the wine coolers to his third son, Henry Neville Gladstone, as a wedding gift in 1890. Although not as successful as his father in public life, Henry Gladstone also became a politician. With an inscription reading: “Given by Mr. Gladstone to his son, Henry Neville, on his marriage,” there can be no denying these wine coolers’ place in history. The pair of wine coolers displays exceptional, ample decoration with a stunning sculptural quality. Each is cast and chased in high relief with elaborate and dynamic hunting scenes featuring boars, stags, and dogs. This rare matching set of…

THIS FALL, the Bruce Museum debuts two new single artist exhibitions, on view through January 5, 2025. “Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination” includes work on loan from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. Intimate observations of plant life diverge from the artist’s more wellknown hyper-realistic watercolors. In addition, “Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects” presents 40 large-scale color prints from the pioneering figure in fine art color photography. The presentation of Wyeth’s paintings at The Bruce combines two previous exhibitions. The first, at the Farnsworth Art Museum, examined work from Maine, while a second at the Brandywine Museum of Art showcased his Pennsylvania compositions. The title for “Every Leaf & Twig” comes from Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book Walden, or Life in the Woods, a publication that shaped Wyeth’s…

HISTORIAN PRISCILLA Pankhurst Ferguson once noted, “As an emblem of French civilization, cuisine ranks right up there with cathedrals and châteaux, recognized…as somehow intrinsically French.” A new exhibition at the Chrysler Museum of Art examines depictions of food in art produced during the last three decades of the 19th century. “Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism,” on view through January 5, 2025, includes over 50 paintings and sculptures from major names in Impressionism and leading figures in the French salon. Thematically organized around the harvest, distribution, and enjoyment of food, these works reflect French identity and help us better understand this era of change. Many works on exhibition highlight the origin points of French cuisine and examine rural agriculture. Best known for his work…

SAN ANTONIO’S McNay Art Museum stages “Women Artists of the Ballets Russes: Designing the Legacy,” on view through January 12, 2025. Curators highlight the women designers, costumers, choreographers, and financial patrons who made the troupe’s groundbreaking performances possible. The exhibition draws from the instituturetion’s renowned Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts and features original costumes, set and costume designs, and archival photographs. Cultural impresario Serge Diaghilev formed the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, hoping to share Russian art and cul with the world. Impressed with Wagner’s earlier concept of the Gesamt-kunstwerk, or total work of art, Diaghilev transformed traditional performance, enlisting the efforts of avant-garde composers and choreographers and collaborating with visual artists to produce cutting-edge costumes and stage sets. Sonia Delaunay first collaborated with the troupe in…

WITH ALMOST 100 works on display drawn from 30 international lenders, “Jackson Pollock: The Early Years, 1934-1947” examines the artist’s evolving methods prior to his celebrated drip paintings. On view through January 19, 2025, at Musée National Picasso-Paris, the exhibition marks the first major showing of his work in the French capital since 2008. Curators acknowledge and highlight the research and experimentation that fostered Pollock’s development, suggesting that his mythic status as a singular artistic genius is just that, a myth, and that creative innovation is the result of creative exchange. The landscape format of Untitled (c. 1938-41) suggests tactics favored by American Regionalist painters such as Thomas Hart Benton with whom Pollock studied at the Art Students League. The sprawling, fragmented figures draw broadly from both Picasso’s methods during that…

FORMER VAN HALEN front man Sammy Hagar (The Red Rocker) sold his one-of-a-kind cream-hued Ferrari LaFerrari for a record $4.67 million. Hagar bought the highly customized Ferrari new from the iconic Italian automaker for around $1.4 million in 2015 — considered a staggering price then. In October, nine years after his purchase, Hagar passed the vehicle along to its next owner for almost $3 million more at the Barrett-Jackson auto auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. Most Ferraris are red, of course; however, this model’s unique color scheme and creamy latte body were inspired by Hagar’s private jet. Other highly personalized elements include Hagar’s initials and birthdate on the carbon fiber steering wheel. Hagar said recently that he has not been able to drive the car as much lately and knew that…

FROM JUST after the Civil War until U.S. entry into WWI, American artists ushered in a national artistic Renaissance, drawing broad inspiration from the classical past to image national pride and identity. “The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917,” a new exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery on view through January 5, 2025, examines the expressive capacity of the human figure in public art commissions from this pivotal period. More than one hundred artist studies make manifest the ideals of the era, placing emphasis on a new vibrant future in the face of past division and presentday challenges. Violet Oakley was tasked with imaging President Lincoln at Gettysburg for a Pennsylvania statehouse mural. Anoilstudy (c. 1911) shows Lincoln in a pose of Christian apotheosis. Raised…

IN 1908, Bert Geer Phillips and Edward Blumenschein left New York aiming for Mexico in search of new experiences to inform their work. In a moment of kismet, the two were stranded near Taos Pueblo, where they eventually founded the now illustrious Taos Society of Artists. Phillips made the area his permanent home, drawing inspiration from the people, climes, and cultures that surrounded him. While he is best known for his romanticized scenes of Indigenous subjects, a new exhibition at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site examines a rare set of canvases that depict the Hispano community. “Vecinos y Amigos: Bert Geer Phillips and His Neighbors,” on view through February 28, 2025, sets this work in cultural context and explores the larger social dynamic of Taos. Guest curator James C. Moore notes…

PREVIOUSLY ON view at New York’s Neue Galerie, “Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me” continues its run at the Art Institute of Chicago through January 12, 2025. The show is the artist’s first museum retrospective in the United States. Her frank portrayals of the female body and her experimental, expressive figuration confirm her posthumous recognition as not only a pioneering avant-garde artist but also a feminist icon. Born in Dresden and raised in Bremen, Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) took her first drawing classes at 16. At her parent’s insistence she attended a teacher’s college but concurrently enrolled in private art lessons, pursuing her true passion. In 1898, she settled in the recently formed Worpswede Artist colony, finding there a creative community up on which she would rely until her death, including sculptor Clara…

IN HIS LIFE and art, Paul Gauguin sought precisely what many artists, writers, and philosophers of 19th-century Europe sought: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “State of Nature,” humankind’s innocence prior to the introduction of agriculture, the invention of private property, and the formation of hierarchical societies. As David Graeber and David Wengrow wrote in their ground-breaking 2021 book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, a work that reimagines the origins of human society and calls the givens of historiography into question, Rousseau’s State of Nature was “a thought experiment,” one that “was never intended to form the basis for a series of evolutionary stages….” Experiment morphed into expedition and the ‘State’ in the State of Nature acquired cartographic co-ordinates in the European imagination, taking romantic form as the American West,…

THE 61st EDITION of the Delaware Antiques Show returns to Wilmington’s Chase Center on the Riverfront November 15-17 with over 60 distinguished purveyors of American decorative and fine art. Presented by the Wilmington Trust, a member of the M&T family, all proceeds benefit educational programming at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. This year’s keynote address on the history of garden ornament will be delivered by exhibitor Barbara Frelinghuysen Israel, founder of Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Arader Galleries brings a stunning original plate from John James Audubon’s Birds of America. The large-scale, elephant folio was engraved and printed by London’s Robert Havell between 1827 and 1838. Audubon’s animated scene captures the now - extinct Carolina parrot (Plate 28), a species known for its large colonies, noisy presence, and deleterious affect…

SAN FRANCISCO’S Modernism Gallery presents “Memory Only,” its first solo exhibition of work by street art icon Victor Reyes (b. 1978). On view through January 10, 2025, at the Modernism West site, 2534 Mission St., paintings on display see the artist consider memory and the waves of change that have occurred—personally and culturally—since he first arrived in the city in 1998. According to Reyes, the work stands as avestige for this past and “the cellular death of the twentieth century.” Reyes began tagging as a teenager in Los Angeles and later established himself as a contributor to the Mission mural art community. In the studio, Reyes has developed a unique abstract mode with shapes both geometric and organic, hard-edge and gestural, all rendered in effusive color. This most recent body…

LÉVY GORVY Dayan presents new work by Francesco Clemente (b. 1952) at their Manhattan location. On view through December 21, 2024, “Francesco Clemente: Summer Love in the Fall” is his first showing at the gallery. Recent oil paintings, watercolors, and frescoes exhibit his signature deployment of figuration in introspective images that often address larger universal themes of love, the spiritual, and connection. Early in his career, Clementetual rejected conceptual practices and chose to work in figuration. By the early 1980s, critics labeled him as a member of the Italian Transavanguardia and Neo-Expressionism. He rose to prominence in the New York scene, collaborating with major artists and filmmakers, and completing commissions for hotels and night clubs. All the while, he traveled, in search of spiri and creative inspiration. Today he has…

NEW YORK’S PARK Avenue Armory will host the 13th edition of Salon Art + Design November 7-11, 2024. Produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates, Salon will feature 50 exhibitors showcasing furniture, studio glass, jewelry, fine art, and more. New Executive Director Nicky Dessources has planned an event that not only celebrates established galleries but also champions emerging designers. Salon also continues its partnership with Dia Art Foundation and features an opening night benefit hour. At the booth from J. Lohmann Gallery, visitors will find stunning porcelain from Toni De Jesus. In his “he loves me…he loves me not” collection the artist merges historical vessel shapes with ornamentation based in floriography. His Fleabane Vases transform the delicate daisy-family plant often mistaken for a weed into glittering, joyous surface treatment. DK…

THE OFT-REPEATED story of Pablo Picasso’s encounter at a European café with a stranger who asked the artist to place a simple sketch on an ordinary paper napkin is one that seems worth telling again, now in the context of the “Picasso and Paper” exhibition, which opens December 8, 2024, at the Cleveland Museum of Art and runs there through March 23, 2025. According to the particular account of such an incident (and there are more than a few versions that hint at what could have been an authentic moment—or only an apocryphal narrative—in 20th-century art history), Picasso completed, quickly, a drawing on the napkin, held it for inspection by his would-be patron, and quoted a sale price of what would be an equivalent of something in the millions of…