Aram store sale in Drury Lane, London until July 23rd

Don Bradman's 1934 Baggy Green to be auctioned June 29th in Melboune

   Charles Leski Auctions in Melbourne, Australia is to sell Don Bradman's 1934 Test cap on June 29th. It is estimated to sell for AUS$250,000-300,000

DON BRADMAN'S 1934 AUSTRALIAN "BAGGY GREEN" TEST CAP, green wool, wire-embroidered Coat-of-Arms & "1934" on front, Farmers label inside endorsed "D.G.Bradman". Few small moth holes, otherwise good match-worn condition. Provenance: Bradman originally gifted this cap to his golf coach Jack Bahen, one of Australia's pioneer professional golfers. On Bahen's death it passed to his daughter Gretta Richardson, who in 1993 loaned it to the Mortlock Library in South Australia who were displaying Bradman cricket memorabilia. Included is a 1993 letter from Don Bradman to Mrs Richardson regarding the cap (personally signed by Don Bradman), and a copy of a press clipping regarding the cap and the Sir Donald Bradman exhibition in Adelaide. Also included DVD with 1950s footage of Bradman & Bahen playing golf together at Royal Adelaide. This cap formed a major part of the Bradman exhibition at the State Library of South Australia from 2003-2008 and has never previously been offered for public sale.

Contemporary Prints auction at Bloomsbury, London June 30th (includes a Richard Estes print)

   Following on from the vintage posters sale last week, Bloomsbury Auctions are to hold a sale entitled Modern and Contemporary Prints Including Andy Warhol and the Pop Legacy. Featuring 465 lots, the viewing on Wednesday goes on until 8.00pm.

Richard Estes (b.1932) - Qualicraft Shoes, 1974, signed in pencil, from the edition of 100, on Fabriano wove paper, the full sheet printed to the edges, 33"x46½") Estimate: £4,000-6,000

   You can view the catalogue here.

2 Yan Pei-Ming paintings in Sotheby's, London Contemporary Art sale June 30th

   Following on from the sale at Christie's the previous day of 2 Yan Pei-Ming paintings, Sotheby's in London gets in on the act with two of their own, one of which is shown below.

Yan Pei-Ming (b.1960) - L'homme le plus aimant (Le père de l'artiste) oil on canvas 36¼"x28¾" Estimate: £60,000-80,000

You can view the catalogue online over at www.sothebys.com

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Vintage Posters at Bloomsbury Auctions, London June 22nd

   Bloomsbury Auctions in Maddox St, London, W1 is staging a sale of vintage posters on June 22nd. Viewing is underway and there are 280 lots.

113. CUNEO, Terence GIANTS REFRESHED lithograph in colours, c.1950, printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd, London cond. A-, backed on linen 40"x50" Est. £2500–3500.

   You can view the catalogue online here.

Michael Freeman talks about the Tea Horse Road at Asia House, London June 22nd

    Award-winning photographer Michael Freeman will discuss the two years he spent compiling a remarkable visual record, from the Tea Mountains of Yunnan and Sichuan to Tibet, at Asia House, New Cavendish St, London, W1 at 6.45pm on June 22nd.

   One of the longest and most dramatic trade routes of the ancient world, the Tea Horse Road facilitated a crucial exchange of tea and horse for 13 centuries between China and Tibet. This 3,000km network of trails through forests, gorges and high passes onto the Himalayan plateaus was traversed by horse, mule and yak caravan and human porters, linking cultures, economies and political ambitions.

   Freeman has made a speciality of documentary reportage on Asia over the last three decades, and his work has been featured in the Smithsonian Magazine, Time-Life, The Sunday Times Magazine and GEO, among many others. Though best known for his work on Asia, he has also written and/or taken photographs of subjects all over the world, including the UK, the USA, South America and Sudan.

   You can get further details here. Tickets are £8.00 and places are limited. See you there.

The Vorticists Exhibition at Tate Britain until Sept 4th

 

From the Tate's website:

   Vorticism was a radical art movement that shone briefly but brightly in the years before and during World War I. This exhibition celebrates the full electrifying force and vitality of this short-lived but pivotal modernist movement that was based in London but international in make-up and ambition.

   The Vorticists forged a distinctive style combining machine-age forms and energetic imagery, embracing modernity and blasting away the staid legacy of the Edwardian past.

Focusing on the only two Vorticist exhibitions mounted during the lifetime, in London and New York, this striking exhibition brings together over 100 key works; including photography and literary ephemera, as well as seminal pieces by Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

   This exhibition aims to shine a new light on this revolutionary group of artists, presenting the style, radical aesthetics and thoughts of one of the most truly avant-garde art movements in British history.

   You can see further details here.

Beijing & Kunqu Opera at the Southbank Centre July 21st

2 Yan Pei-Ming paintings in Christie's Contemporary Art sale June 29th

   In Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale on June 29th are 2 paintings by Yan Pei-Ming.

Yan Pei-Ming (b.1960) - Mao dated 03.92 oil on canvas 40.5"x78.75" Estimate: £180,000-250,000

 

Portrait of Brigitte Gairard dated 1998 oil on canvas 39.5"x32" Estimate: £40,000-60,000

   You can view the online catalogue here.

Swan on the motorway - an echo of the past

   The Evening Standard (a crappy free paper we get here in London) carried the following photograph of a swan that stopped traffic on the M4 near Hayes.

   Does it remind you of this photograph of Tank Man in Tiananmen Square in 1989?

Dylan Lewis animal bronzes at Christie's South Kensington June 16th

    South African artist Dylan Lewis is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost sculptors of the animal form. For almost two decades he has exhibited extensively, both in his home country and around the world.  A Christie's auction dedicated to his work in June 2007 was an overwhelming success, firmly placing Dylan on the global art world's stage. The auction was 100% sold and introduced new collectors from all over the world to his work.

    On June 16th a second solo auction of Lewis’s animal works entitled Predators and Prey Part II consisting of 58 animal bronzes ranging from maquettes to life-size, will be auctioned. The sale at Christie's South Kensington will be Lewis’s last solo auction of his animal sculptures.

   Here's one for your lounge.

White Rhino, Life-size bronze
104¾" high; 87½" wide; 177" long
The edition of this cast is AP1, of an edition of 4. Estimate: £250,000-350,000

    The first rhinoceros done by Lewis was a life-size Black Rhino commissioned in 1995 by the then Natal Parks Board for its centenary celebrations. It was the first time that Lewis sculpted on such a massive scale and he so enjoyed the challenge that from then on he began to conceive all of his works as large-scale. The first edition of the Centennial Rhinoceros was unveiled by then President Nelson Mandela and still stands in the Hluhluwe Umfolozi National Park in KwaZulu-Natal, where it was made. In 2000 Lewis returned to the theme of the rhino, this time the White Rhino. The subject was enormously large and bulky, with its dusty, muddy appearance seemed to him the equivalent of landscape made flesh. Once again Lewis has used the compositional idea of merging the animal with the landscape, the triangular shape of the base accentuates the forward thrust of the animal, increasing the dynamic energy of this piece.

   You can view the catalogue online here.

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Street/Graffiti Art auction at Piasa, Paris June 22nd

   As part of the Contemporary Art sale on June 22nd Piasa has some 69 lots of Street Art going under the hammer.

Seyb (b.1973) - Le métro, 2011 Acrylic on canvas 73x100cm. Estimate: €2,000-3,000

   You can view the catalogue online here. The street art lots begin at no.157.

2 Richard Estes photorealist prints at Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris June 20th

   Cornette de Saint Cyr Auctions in Paris has two Richard Estes prints in its Modern & Contemporary Prints auction on June 20th.

Richard Estes - Danbury Tile, 1972 Ltd Ed 39/75 53x73cm Est: €600-800

Richard Estes - Hall Ltd Ed 39/75 53x73cm Est:€600-800

   You can view the online catalogue here.

African, Oceanic, N American Art at Christie's, Paris June 14th

   Christie's are to hold 2 Tribal Art sales in Paris on June 14th. First out of the blocks is Art Océanien, Africain et d'Amérique du Nord : Collection Bottet et à divers amateurs, an auction of 177 lots. There are a few maori items including:

Maori patu-onewa club. 36cm Estimate €3,000-5,000

   You can view the online catalogue here.

   Also on the 14th is The Holz Collection of African Art consisting of 24 lots expected to fetch together between €1,500,000-2,200,000. The collection includes the iconic Ratton Kota-Ndassa figure, a Dan mask formerly in the collection of Hubert Goldet, a Songye Kifwebe mask, and a Dogon female figure, of the Tomo-ka style, formerly in the Solvit Collection.

Dogon Statue tomo-ka style. 24" Mali. Estimate: €120,000-140,000

   You can view the online catalogue here.

Bookstall is NOT on today June 11th

   I still haven't sorted out a new home for the stall, hopefully I'll get things sorted soon.

Pre-Columbian Art auction at Binoche & Giquello, Paris, June 8th

   Binoche and Giquello Auctions is holding a sale of Pre-Columbian Art today, June 8th. 155 lots covering a wide spectrum of Central & South American pre-European Art.

Funerary Urn - Zapotec c.200-500 A.D. Estimate €20,000-25,000

   You can view the catalogue online here.

Photographs auction at van Ham, Cologne, June 10th

 van Ham Auctions in Cologne is holding a photographs auction on June 10th. 398 lots are due to go under the hammer.

Unknown photographer - Bikini Atomic Blast. July 25th, 1946. 1 of 5 vintage gelatin silver prints. Estimate €1,500.

 

 

 

 

 

   You can view the online catalogue here.

Pip McGarry wildlife art exhibition in London until June 11th

   The Colomb Art Gallery in George St, London, W1, has an exhibition of African wildlife paintings by Pip McGarry on show until June 11th. Around 30 pictures are on display.

Mayhem in the Mara - oil on canvas 60"x24"
£34,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Pip is one of Europe's leading wildlife artists with an international reputation for his oil paintings of big cats and African game. Many of his original paintings have been sold at Christie's and Sotheby's and over forty of his paintings have been reproduced by major UK fine art publishers.

Flight of the Wildebeeste - oil on canvas 60"x18"
£18,000

   You can get full details of the exhibition here.

   Incidentally, if you're in the middle of town and you step into the road without looking and you hear "Look before you leap, wildebeeste, the old croc(k) is coming", well, that's me on my bike and you're beginning to annoy me!

 

Street Photography competition

   Further details can be found here.

Yan Pei-Ming painting at Pierre Bergé, Brussels June 8th

   Pierre Bergé & Associés in Brussels is auctioning a painting by Yan Pei-Ming in its Modern and Contemporary Art sale on June 8th.

Yan Pei-Ming (b.1960) - Tête de bouddha, 1999
Oil on canvas. Signed & dated to the back.

290x290 cm. Estimate €350,000-450,000

   You can view the online catalogue here. There's a sale the following day as well that you can browse here.

New Ltd Ed Ferrari Posters at Pullman Editions

1964 Targa Florio - Emilio Saluzzi 1970 Nürburgring 1000 kms - Emilio Saluzzi    Historic Ferrari: Legends of Road and Track 1949-1974. Pullman Editions has commissioned three house artists to produce all-new, large format (38"-26") posters in the style of the period. They are not copies or reproductions of earlier works - there are just 24 individual pieces, each strictly limited to 280 copies.    The artists, Charles Avalon, Emilio Saluzzi and Dexter Brown, have each created 8 posters which match the mood of the era.    All are priced at £395.00, unframed.    I've put the big images on here even though they've got the digital watermark on them.    You can see all 24 posters here.

2 photorealist prints in Swann Galleries NY auction June 9th

   In Swann Galleries' forthcoming American Art/Contemporary Art sale on June 9th are a print each by Robert Cottingham & Robert Bechtle.

Lot 146. Robert Bechtle - 34th Avenue
 Colour soft ground etching, 1987. 602x714 mm;full margins.
Signed and numbered 8/50 in pencil, lower margin.
Printed and published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco, with the blind stamp lower right.
A very good impression. Estimated Price: $1,200-$1,800.

Lot 183. Robert Cottingham - Hot 
Colour lithograph on Special Arjomari paper, 1973. 533x530 mm; full margins.
Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower left. 
Printed and published by Landfall Press, Chicago, with the blind stamp lower left.
Estimated Price: $1,000-$1,500. 

You can view the catalogue of 398 lots here.

Tribal Art sale at Pierre Bergé, Brussels June 9th

   Coinciding with BRUNEAF, Pierre Bergé is holding a sale of Tribal Art in Brussels on June 9th. 91 lots with an emphasis on African Art.

        Yaka Statue, Congo. Wood.
 Height 32cm. Estimate: €6,000-8,000.





You can view the catalogue online here.

Bookstall is NOT on today June 4th

   I've still not found a home for the stall so there is not going to be one this week. Hopefully I'll sort one out soon. I'll spend the day moving more boxes of books to my new, bigger storage unit. I lead such an exciting life.

Photographs auction at Leonard Joel, Melbourne June 19th

   The second photography auction at Leonard Joel brings together two of Australia’s most iconic photographers, Wolfgang Sievers and Mark Strizic.  While Strizic’s endearing images document Melbourne’s inhabitants and its environs in the fifties and sixties, Sievers photographs focus on the role of the worker and machinery in the context of Australia’s emerging industries.

   Popular international photographers such as Bert Stern and Robert Maplethorpe as well as other important Australian photographers including Olive Cotton, Tracey Moffatt, Patricia Piccinini and Darren Sylvester are also on offer.

 Wolfgang Sievers (1913-2007) Towers and Plant Equipment at Mobil's Stanvac Oil Refinery, Altona, Victoria

24.5x20cm. Estimate: Aus$800-1,200

   You can view the online catalogue of 297 lots here.