Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2023 i Art & Antiques

French furniture designer Erwan Boulloud relentlessly pushes the sculptural boundaries of raw materials to create his one-of-a-kind pieces. Born in France in 1973, Boulloud attended art school at Paris’s École Boulle, graduating in 1995. After completing his studies, he assisted in the workshops of such renowned designers as Hubert Le Gall and Hervé Van Der Straeten. He also worked at the Louvre, the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, and the Museum of Natural History as a set designer, creating displays showcasing artworks and artifacts. Using traditional craft techniques, yet often very non-traditional materials, Boulloud has been creating distinctive pieces of furniture for some 30 years. In 2003, Boulloud opened his own studio in Paris, later moving to nearby Montreuil, where he works today. “To me, furniture design is just…

THE DYNAMIC, vibrant works of American sculptor John Henry, who passed away in 2022, will be on view in the exhibit ion “Lines of Ascension” at New Orleans’ Callan Contemporary through April 23rd. Henry’s works range from small, tabletop pieces to massive outdoor sculptures, including Zachs Tower in Venice and one of the largest outdoor sculptures in the world: Tatlin’s Sentinel, a 101-foot-tall piece in Dallas, Tx. Callan Contemporary, which has represented Henry for more than 10 years, will show a maquette of this piece, along with a selection of garden-scaled sculptures and smaller pieces in “Lines of Ascension.” His work has been described as “welded steel drawings,” and are characterized by angular, gravity-defying shapes, bright colors, and a sense of climbing, upward movement. “In Henry’s visionary forms we find…

FROM APRIL 20-23, the Dallas Art Fair will showcase works of art from 90 galleries representing 22 countries in the fair’s longtime venue, the Fashion Industry Gallery in the heart of Dallas’s Arts District. Visitors and col lectors will be able to browse works from gallerists from Milan, New York, Venice, Accra, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Seoul, among other cities, many of which are returning participants in the fair. “We’re thrilled that so many of the exhibitors who’ve grown alongside us over the past fifteen years are returning to participate again this year,” says Dallas Art Fair Director Kelly Cornell in a press release. “It’s wonderful to see the Dallas Art Fair continue to expand its reach and reverberate its influence across the art market, thanks to the success of…

American sculptor Paul Manship (1885–1966) was adept at taking traditional subject matter and transforming it into classic icons in the popular Art Deco style of his time, making his work incredibly sought after during his lifetime as well as now. His sculpture Indian Hunter and His Dog (1926) is a perfect example of Manship’s sensitivities, bringing a classical hunting figure into the 20th century. This sculpture, which is part of the Wolf Family Collection: The Spirit of America auction at Sotheby’s—slated for April 19, 2023—is a smaller version of the original. In 1925, prominent Minnesota-based banker and patron Thomas Cochran commissioned a fountain for St. Paul, which was Manship’s hometown, featuring the sculptor’s work as the focal point of a public park (on land given to the city of St.…

FROM APRIL 28-30, the Philadelphia Show will bring 42 art and antiques dealers from across the country to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Featuring everything from Americana to jewelry, textiles to folk art, decorative arts, fine art, and more, the Philadelphia Show offers something for both serious collectors and amateur enthusiasts. For jewelry aficionados, A La Vieille Russie will offer a selection of pieces that range in period from the late 1800s to the 1960s. One notable piece is a ca. 1930s necklace by the English Arts and Crafts designer Dorrie Nossiter. Nossiter was a respected designer of her time, and her work is characterized by the use of floral motifs and colorful gemstones. Olde Hope Antiques, an ant iques dea ler based in New York, N.Y., is offering a…

WAVE HILL HOUSE, a unique center for culture and gardening located in the Bronx, is hosting the painting exhibition by artist Rebecca Allan, “Cultivating Eden,” through June 4. The works in “Cultivating Eden” are intimately connected to Wave Hill, a 28-acre garden overlooking the Hudson River that is cared for by volunteer gardeners and visitors—including Allan herself, who is also a gardener. Allan’s paintings reference Wave Hill itself and the labor of the gardeners who work there, depicting scenes that range from panoramic to intimate. In Red Winter (Dry Garden from the Alpine House) (2022), Allan uses thick, painterly brushstrokes to create a view of Wave Hill’s buildings, gardens, and greenhouse from above. The high vantage point gives an expansive sense of space, while the absence of any human figures…

“LIBRARY OF FRIENDS,” an exhibition of works by the glass artists and married duo known as Baldwin Guggisberg, will be on view at San Francisco’s Montague Gallery through April 29. The artist couple, Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin, have collaborated for more than 40 years and developed a technique rooted in the Italian cutting technique of battuto, combined with a Swedish overlay. Baldwin Guggisberg first explored glass through the creation of functional, tabletop art, and evolved to large-scale, decorative, and purely artistic pieces. They say in a press release, “Although our work has become more sculptural over the years, we seek to imbue everything we do with the deepest connection to archetypal forms and shapes, and seek the highest level of craftsmanship in all our works. We try to honor…

WHEN LONDON-BORN ARTIST CECILY BROWN LANDED IN NEW YORK CITY, where she has lived ever since, it was 1994, about a year after graduating from the Slade School of Art. She came to the United States as a budding painter in rebellion against the conceptual inclinations of the Young British Artists (YBAs). Brown, you might say, became a standard-bearer for another kind of YBA. After all, she was also young, British, and an artist—one, however, who exuberantly and fearlessly wielded a brush dipped into thick dabs of (wonderfully) messy, smelly, voluptuous paint. She arrived at a time when the medium, declared dead in the 1970s, was undergoing a resurrection, a rehabilitation. Her paintings, assuming a non-partisan stance, embraced both abstraction and figuration, toggling between the two: some more figurative, others…

THIS APRIL 27, Shannon’s will hold its Spring Fine Art Auction headlining modern and contemporary art, including never-before-sold pieces by American Modernists and European artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. Artists whose works will be available include John F. Francis; Maurice Prendergast; Pierre-Auguste Renoir; Michael Goldberg; J. Alden Weir; Winfred Rembert; and Latin American artist Angel Botello. The works on offer include a museum-quality piece called The Watchers (1962, est. $250,000-350,000) by George Tooker. This egg tempera on gesso board work depicts three people staring at something off canvas, wearing matching expressions of shock and dismay. Dating from the same decade, Foliage Study (1962, est. $30,000-50,000) by Lynne Mapp Drexler is a work on paper featuring brightly colored abstract depictions of trees in full leaf against an abstracted, vibrantly…

NEW YORK’S Forum Gallery will present the solo show “La Vida Brava—Cuba Today” by Texas-based watercolorist Rance Jones from April 27 through June 9. The works on display were painted after a 2022 visit to Cuba—the most recent of several trips Jones has made to the country—when the pandemic was still raging and Cubans were still living under significant restrictions. The watercolors included in this exhibit show their subjects going about their daily lives, whether that’s selling fruit, enjoying a day at the beach, or bicycling to work. In each painting, Jones is focused on the individual human stories told through body language and facial expressions. “A world apart, Cuba is a vibrant and visceral country on the edge of great change. The people who live here are survivors and…

ART FROM THE COLONIAL SPANISH Americas will be on view this spring at the Harvard Art Museums in “From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire.” The exhibition features 26 paintings from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, which is the U.S.’s premier private collection of South American and Caribbean paintings from the 17th-19th centuries. In addition to those 26 pieces, the exhibition will also display works from the Harvard Art Museums’ collection as well as other university collections. “From the Andes to the Caribbean” is organized around three themes central to the interplay of culture and empire: the political and spiritual work of Catholic icons; the ways in which empire begets hybrid cultural identities; and the relationship between labor, wealth, and luxury. Visitors will be…

In 1937, Picasso painted the famous Guernica as a way of protesting the leveling of a small Basque village by German aerial bombers under General Francisco Franco’s command. Most of the civilians killed in Guernica, Spain, that day were women and children. (The men were away fighting.) It was market day, so everyone was in one convenient place for a mass murder. The German and Italian forces who ensured Franco’s victory were, within three years, to have all of Europe at their mercy. Under Franco’s reign, which lasted from 1936 until his death in 1975, despite his concentration camps and firing squads that killed hundreds of thousands of Spanish citizens, artists continued to create. Many fled to Paris, where their compatriots Picasso and Miro had paved the way for artists…