May 2022

Art & Antiques

For Collectors of The Fine And Decorative Arts

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF John Dorfman CREATIVE DIRECTOR Mark Snyder ASSOCIATE EDITOR Sarah E. Fensom EDITOR-AT-LARGE Jonathan Lopez ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Eric Hernandez ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Emma C Dryden CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Randall Cordero Ted Morri
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Art and Illusion
ONE OF THE key principles of modernism is that art should be honest, and that in order to do so, it must abandon illusionism. That term can mean many things, but in the context of the 20th century, it refers to creating the illusion of three-dimensio
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O My America!
FROM MAY 14–17, the American Art Fair will be held at the Bohemian National Hall on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, opening spring American Art Week in New York. Founded in 2008, the fair is the only one currently being produced that is dedicated to 19t
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Multifaceted
Some gems are so exceptional that they get names of their own—the Hope Diamond, the Koh-i-Noor, the Great Mogul. This month, Christie’s will offer one named, simply, The Rock, which at 228.31 carats is the largest white diamond ever to appear at auct
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Angel On High
On June 9, over 50 Old Master artworks will be offered at Christie’s New York in a special single-owner sale. Known as the Alana Collection, the trove is being called by the auction house “the most significant collection of Italian Old Master paintin
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Saints and Martyrs
MARK STEVEN Greenfield brings Black history to life with vivid, symbolic paintings of heroes, freedom fighters, and martyrs. In his vibrantly colorful, folk-art-like images, Greenfield conjures scenes from the lives of his subjects, placing a gold-le
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Photo Finish
THE Photography Show, presented by AIPAD (The Association of International Photography Art Dealers), will take place from May 20–22 in a new venue in New York—Center 415 on Fifth Avenue between 37th and 38th Streets. This edition of the event is its
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Play It By Ear
THROUGH JUNE 24, Meredith Ward Fine Art of New York will present “Frank Diaz Escalet: Sing Me the Blues,” an exhibition of the Puerto Rico-born artist’s paintings and inlaid cut-leather work. Escalet (1930–2012) was a self-taught artist whose family
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New Orleans to North Carolina
ON MAY 19–21, Brunk Auctions in Asheville, N.C., will hold its Premier Auction, featuring a stimulating combination of fine art both American and European, Southern furniture and decorative arts, jewelry, and coins. A collection of folk art will also
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Spring Fever
ON MAY 22, Showplace of New York will present a 145-lot auction titled “Fine Art & Design: Spring 2022.” As befits a spring show, the colors of the art on offer are vibrant. For example, Spring Vase is an Abstract Expressionist oil on canvas with blo
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Color Me Beautiful
LEWALLEN Galleries of Santa Fe, N.M., presents “Dan Christensen: A Painter’s Painter,” featuring the artist’s signature color abstractions. Running through June 4, the show will include works on paper and paintings that Christensen completed between
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The Power of Suffering
JAMES YAROSH Associates Fine Art Gallery in Holmdel, N.J., has been mounting exhibitions that give deserved attention to women artists who in their time were largely ignored by the male-dominated art establishment. Currently, Yarosh is presenting “Mi
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Linear Thinking
THROUGH JULY 1, Rosenberg & Co. in New York will present the exhibition “Marguerite Louppe: Diagramming Space,” the French artist’s first solo show in the U.S. The 30 paintings and works on paper that are on view document Louppe’s synthesis of Cubism
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Fire and Ice
STARTING ON May 27, Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) will present “America’s Epic Treasures featuring Preternatural by Michael Scott,” an exhibition that includes dramatic landscapes by Scott alongside treasures from the museum’s collection. Scott’s be
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All In The Family
From May 7–September 5, the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., will present “Drawn from Life: Three Generations of Wyeth Figure Studies,” with many never-before-displayed studio and academic drawings by N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth. Represent
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Approaching Infinity
M.C. ESCHER’S art is both mind-boggling and accessible. This may not be as much of a paradox as it sounds; under the right circumstances, we all like having our minds boggled from time to time. Aside from that, Escher’s unique combination of an Old M
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Fool Me Once
THERE IS A paradoxical connection between realism and unreality that dates back to the beginnings of art. In his Historia Naturalis, the Roman historian Pliny the Elder described a contest between the 5thcentury B.C. artists Zeuxis and Parrhasius to
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Kinetic Energy
WILLIAM KLEIN has pretty much done it all, artistically speaking. He’s mainly known as a photographer—in genres from “street” to journalism, abstraction, and fashion—but has also been a filmmaker—documentary and feature—a TV-commercial producer, a pa
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Phenomenal Insights
Paul Jenkins (1923–2012) liberated the materials of his art in such a way that oil, watercolor, and acrylic paints and canvases became mutable elements for the expression of his expansive life experiences, from his youth in the American Midwest to hi
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Deadly Elegance
In a utilitarian age, it is hard for us to imagine that the accoutrements of war could be beautiful. But for the Japanese in the age of feudalism, arms and armor were the subject of intense artistic effort. Aesthetics permeated every aspect of Japane
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The Artists’ Artist
In Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sunday in the Park with George, the character of Dot, an artist’s model, sings to the painter Georges Seurat, “Give us more to see!” Dot’s understanding of her companion’s creative process and her urgent plea to the arti
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Bridget Riley, Gala, 1974
IN 1965, BRIDGET RILEY was prominently featured in the exhibition “The Responsive Eye” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The show propelled her to fame, but it also caused some misunderstanding and unfortunately stuck her with the “Op artist”

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