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Figure Painting
by Callen Bair

Posted: Feb 15 2008 11:05AM EST

Farewell

This is Figure Painting's last post. The voice behind the blog is reclaiming her Southern roots and returning to Birmingham, Alabama for a spell before taking off for Greece and Spain and, ultimately, trading her auction catalogues and Gallery Guides ... Continue

Posted: Feb 15 2008 9:24AM EST

The (Red) Auction Topples High Estimate & Other Art World News

Christie's and Sotheby's both had an excellent Valentine's Day: Yesterday afternoon, a sale of Impressionist and modern art at the former topped the high end of its pre-sale estimate by more than a million dollars, demonstrating "that the market remains ... Continue

Posted: Feb 14 2008 2:30PM EST

Flowers, Chocolates, Or Art This V-Day?

Flowers. Chocolates. Damien Hirst's All You Need is Love. These are just a few of the purchases that might be made on any number of Amex gold, platinum, and black cards this Valentine's Day. Sotheby's heavily marketed and highly anticipated ... Continue

Posted: Feb 14 2008 9:17AM EST

Today in the Art World...

At the London contemporary sales last October, it was Chinese art that really popped. Sotheby's is betting that this will hold true for its February contemporary sale in two weeks. The Guerrilla Girls say that female and minority artists are ... Continue

Posted: Feb 13 2008 4:23PM EST

The Art Theft's Choice

What occurred to Figure Painting upon reading that $163 million worth of art — that translates to one painting each by Cézanne, Degas, van Gogh, and Monet — was stolen from the E. G. Bührle Collection in Zurich over the ... Continue

Posted: Feb 13 2008 9:15AM EST

Thai Antiquities, Tropical Houses

Museums search records of their Thai antiquities for links to the dealers facing charges of tax fraud. Next stop for the Jean Prouvé Tropical House owned by Andre Balazs: Art Basel Miami Beach 2009. (via) The rise of so-called street ... Continue

Posted: Feb 12 2008 1:28PM EST

Eli Broad's Pet Project

The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, colloquially know as BCAM, officially opens to the public on Saturday with a free weekend sponsored by Target, the upscale big-box retailer that was similarly civic-spirited when ... Continue

Posted: Feb 12 2008 8:50AM EST

Crimes of the Art World, An Interview & a Guest Blogger

Today in the art world... Why would thieves steal four paintings so well-known they're "unsalable"? Is there a Thomas Crown involved? Maybe it's the work of an organized crime ring from the Balkans? Or collateral for a drug deal? The ... Continue

Posted: Feb 11 2008 4:22PM EST

Banksy in Chelsea?

Figure Painting heard word that there is a Banksy tag in the vicinity of 21st Street and 11th Avenue in Chelsea. Does anyone have more details and/or photos? ... Continue

Posted: Feb 11 2008 12:52PM EST

Déjà Vu

One of the paintings stolen from Zurich's Emile Bührle Foundation on Sunday afternoon was Cézanne's Boy in the Red Waistcoat, which depicts an apathetic-looking dark-haired youth (thought to be a model named Michelangelo di Rosa) in a bright vest. The ... Continue

Posted: Feb 10 2008 10:18PM EST

Today in the Art World: Heist in Zurich, Fisk's Woes, Royal Academy Controversy Continues

Armed robbers lifted between $100 million and $163.2 million worth of art from a museum in Zurich over the weekend. The artist who designed movie posters for films ranging from The Little Mermaid to Young Frankenstein died. A court has ... Continue

Posted: Feb 8 2008 4:23PM EST

Artworthy

Artworthy is a recurring feature that calls out exhibitions, fairs, and/or other art world events worth your precious free time. This weekend's pick... Most people know Jasper Johns for his iconic flag painting or False Start, which David Geffen sold ... Continue

Posted: Feb 8 2008 11:31AM EST

Parsing Through the London Sales

Figure Painting wasn't in London this week for the Impressionist and modern and post-war and contemporary sales at Christie's and Sotheby's, so we've had to rely on second-hand accounts and press releases to make sense of it all. The general ... Continue

Posted: Feb 8 2008 8:22AM EST

Today in the Art World...

Clothes designed by Paul Poiret will be sold at auction following an exhibition of the French couturier's work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last year. An art world merger. Two Picasso's were stolen from a Swiss museum. Andre Balazs ... Continue

Posted: Feb 7 2008 12:50PM EST

A Second Look at Bacon's Triptych

As Figure Painting noted yesterday, Francis Bacon's Triptych 1974-77 set a record for a post-war work of art sold in Europe when it fetched $51.7 million (that price includes buyer's premium) at Christie's in London on Wednesday evening. (It is ... Continue

Posted: Feb 7 2008 8:25AM EST

Acquisitions, Installations and Extortion

The Getty has acquired Irving Penn's portraits of blue-collar workers. There will be an urban farm at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center this summer. The arts get more support in Miami. A clue as to the identify of the buyer who ... Continue

Posted: Feb 6 2008 5:07PM EST

Bacon Sets at Record at Christie's London

The auction results from Christie's post-war and contemporary sale in London are in — an evening auction across the pond translates to an afternoon one on the East Coast — and Francis Bacon, robbed of the record for a contemporary ... Continue

Posted: Feb 6 2008 1:09PM EST

Straight From the Artist's Mouth

This is Keith Tyson's Nature Painting (Red), which the artist donated to The (RED) Auction that Figure Painting has been writing about. Like all of Tyson's Nature Paintings, it was made by pouring paint and other materials onto an aluminum ... Continue

Posted: Feb 6 2008 9:20AM EST

It Was a Super Tuesday in the Art World, Too

Sotheby's sale of impressionist and modern art in London last night did well. Which presidential hopefuls have members of the art world been supporting? The current presidential administration proposed a $33.8 million increase in the Smithsonian's budget. So-called urban art ... Continue

Posted: Feb 5 2008 5:28PM EST

The Pink Hippopotamus in the Room

While this may look like a stuffed toy you'd buy for a child, it is, in fact a work by Carsten Höller being offered in The (RED) Auction, and in person, it is eerily life-like. Carsten Höller, Hippopotamus, Estimate: $100,000 ... Continue
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