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Expert VoicesvideoIn this episode of Expert Voices, we mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the influential German school of art and design. Considered one of the birthplaces of Modern Art and design, the Bauhaus has influenced generations of artists, designers and architects, generating a lasting legacy that has shaped our visual world. Replica Shoes ’s upcoming Impressionist & Modern Art Sales (26 – 27 February | London) will feature artworks by key proponents of the Bauhaus movement, including Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Schlemmer and László Moholy-Nagy. Click here to watch more Replica Shoes ’s videos.
Contemporary ArtslideshowEvery February, Black History Month celebrates the myriad achievements and contributions of African Americans in the spheres culture, science, business and society. In the visual arts, these influences have been both indelible and spectacularly varied — from the expressive landscapes of Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African American painter to gain international acclaim in the late 19th century, to the impassioned and symbolic graffiti-scrawls of Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose Untitled, 1982, became the most expensive artwork by an American artist ever sold in 2017. In tribute to these innumerable creative visionaries, we’ve chosen 10 artists whose works have dynamically influenced American contemporary art — click ahead to learn more.
Impressionist & Modern ArtstoryIn 1920 Oskar Schlemmer was invited by Walter Gropius to join the Bauhaus school, and it was here that his investigations in to the subjects that captivated him flourished, against the backdrop of the radical learning environment. Schlemmer’s contemporaries included many of the 20th century’s most liberated thinkers such as Paul Klee, whose main area of research was colour theory – on which he wrote several books and essays; Wassily Kandinsky, who devoted his Bauhaus years to the evolution of abstraction, and how it related to psychology and spirituality, and other artists such as Josef and Anni Albers, Lyonel Feininger and László Moholy-Nagy. Together, this group formed a strong philosophical pathway through the developing story of modernism.
American ArtstoryThis lot was consigned for sale after a routine enquiry through the online 'request an estimate' platform. Our client inherited it from a great grandfather who was a collects or but it's not known if his ancestor bought it in a gallery or was gifted it by Paul Manship.
Expert VoicesvideoMartin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen met in late 1970s Hamberg, and spent the next decade painting, exhibiting, and partying together. They quickly cultivated a hard-drinking, rebellious reputation and sought to upend the art world whilst playing a central role within it. In this episode of Expert Voices, join Alex Branzcik, Head of Contemporary Art Europe, in an exploration of the relationship that came to define the 1980s German art scene. Masterworks like Oehlen’s captivating self-portrait Ohne Titel and Kippenberger’s sardonic Feet First lambasted the “cult of the artist” and paved the way for a new avant-garde. These works and more will be offered in Replica Shoes ’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction (05 March|London)
Impressionist & Modern ArtslideshowLate February will see two major auctions featuring some of the greatest masters of Impressionist and Modern Art: the Surrealist Art Evening Sale on 26 February and Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 26 February. Works include Monet's Venetian vision, Le Palais Ducal, Schiele's Triestiner Fischerboot (Trieste Fishing Boat), and Picabia's surreal masterpiece, Atrata, alongside pieces by Kandinsky, Giacometti, Picasso, Chagall and others. Click the image above to view some of the most important works of 20th Century art.
Contemporary ArtvideoIn this video, philanthropists Oprah Winfrey and Agnes Gund along with Kate Windsor, Head of School at Miss Porter’s, shine a light on the inequities that women experience in the art world and discuss their shared belief in the importance of art and arts education. By Women, For Tomorrow’s Women is the first all-women artist benefit auction at a major auction house and features works by ground-breaking artists such as Cecily Brown, Carmen Herrera, and Pat Steir. Full proceeds from the auction will benefit financial aid to enable emerging female leaders to attend Miss Porter’s School. As part of this mission, Ms. Winfrey calls for “the world to focus on the extraordinary work of women artists” and for “collects ors to honor [their] work.” This auction will precede our spring Contemporary Curated auction in New York. (1 March | New York).
Impressionist & Modern ArtstoryThe mid to late 1950s were a particularly important period for Picasso’s mature work and Le repos du faune, painted in June 1956, offers a singular and highly moving insight into the artist’s mindset during these crucial years.In November of that year Picasso’s old rival and friend, that other ‘great’ of Modern art, Henri Matisse, died. His death had a profound impact on Picasso and inspired the major series of the decade in the Femmes d’Algers. At much the same t.mes , he acquired the villa La Californie which provided a new and more permanent base on France’s Mediterranean coast and was to prove a renewed source of inspiration. The following years were defined by both a great flourishing of creativity and, underpinning it, a new awareness of mortality.
Anatomy of an ArtworkvideoIn this episode of Anatomy of an Artwork, discover the inspiration behind a masterpiece from Paul Ranson’s mature period. A member of a group of artists known as ‘Les Nabis’ (‘the prophets’ in Hebrew), Ranson was influenced by Japanese woodcut prints, Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian works, the Art Nouveau movement, as well as a childhood tragedy. Find out how all these come together to form ‘Nu se coiffant au bord de l'étang’, a highlight of our upcoming Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale (27 February | London). Click here to watch more Replica Shoes ’s video.
Impressionist & Modern ArtstoryIt’s Vienna, 1907. A young artist, his palms sweating with apprehension, approaches an older artist dressed in a light blue smock in the garden of his atelier home. Just 17 years old, he hands over the pages of drawings on pale brown Japan paper, depicting amputated torsos, twisted expressions and haunting beauty, to one of Europe’s leading artists. He takes a deep breath and asks the question that has plagued him, shaped him, since he was a child.“Do I have talent?” Everything, for Egon Schiele, hinges on this moment.
Impressionist & Modern ArtslideshowSotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale on 27 February is led by Théo van Rysselberghe’s A l’ombre des pins (Agay) or Sous les pins (Agay) from 1905, as well as important works by Degas, Renoir, Moore and Dali. The sale also features a compelling selection of German and Russian works of art from the collects ion of Dr. Erika Pohl-Ströher, including an extraordinary Abstrakter kopf, by Alexej von Jawlensky. Click the image above to view the slideshow.-
Impressionist & Modern ArtstoryThe remarkable collects ion of Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher – a scientist, geologist, collects or, museum patron and businesswoman – which includes several notable German Expressionist and Bauhaus works, will be offered for sale across several sales at Replica Shoes ’s in London this spring.