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The ALBERTINA27.01. 2023 – 14.05. 2023 The ALBERTINA presents a retrospective of the history of printmaking over a period of six centuries, from Albrecht Dürer and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiki Smith and Damien Hirst. The two exhibitions planned as a pas de deux - at both ALBERTINA locations - span from works of the late Middle Ages to the prints of contemporary art. The two exhibitions are joined by a third, as it were, dedicated solely to the most important printmaker of the 20th century: Picasso. The first exhibit, 'Dürer. Munch. Miró - The Great Masters of Printmakin... read more

*ALBERTINA * *17 March – 18 June 2023* Exactly half a century after his passing, the ALBERTINA Museum is commemorating the life and works of Pablo Picasso, that greatest and most influential artist of the 20th century—a pioneer of its first half with cubism, a central protagonist of symbolism during his Blue Period, a forerunner of the 1920s’ neoclassicist tendencies, and in his late works an ideal to be emulated by the neoexpressionist movements of the 1980s. His oeuvre, encompassing approximately 50,000 works, reflects the momentous political transformations and dynamic ava... read more

La Révolution Surréaliste 29 MARCH 2023 [image: MAX ERNST (1891-1976) & MARIE-BERTHE AURENCHE (1906-1960) Portrait d'André Breton] La Révolution Surréaliste 29 Mar 2023 Paris, Avenue Hoche *Paris* – *Portrait d'André Breton* by *Max Ernst (1891-1976)* and his then-wife *Marie-Berthe Aurenche (1906-1960)*, leads Bonhams *La Révolution Surréaliste* sale on *29 March in Paris*. The rare joint work by the pair has an* estimate of €400,000 - 600,000*. Following the outstanding results for Bonhams' latest sales dedicated to Surrealism in 2021 and 2022 in London, Bonhams is delighted ... read more

* Guggenheim Museum Bilbao* *February 10 to May 28, 2023* - - In the 25 years of activity covered by the exhibition, there is a constant flow of new ideas ranging from his initial magic realism to his language of constellated signs. In this period, it becomes clear that prehistoric art held a special interest for Miró, who proposed returning to the dawn of art in order to retrieve its original spiritual sense. Admired for his formal innovations developed in the context of the first avant-garde movements, especially Dadaism and Surrealism, Miró is also considered a prec... read more

* Crocker Art Museum* *January 29 to May 7, 2023 * *Oceanside Museum of Art* *June 24 to November 5, 2023* *Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens* *December 2, 2023 to March 18, 2024* Harry Sternberg (American, 1904–2001), *Coal Miner and Family*, 1938. Oil on panel, 24 x 48 in. Collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra. The Crocker Art Museum is pleased to announce the exhibition* Art for the People: WPA Era Paintings from the **Dijkstra Collection*, on view at the Museum January 29 – May 7, 2023. Drawn from the Collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra, *Art for the... read more

*Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia * *February 4 to May 14, 2023* *Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut* June 3–September 10, 2023 *Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky* As the Princeton University Art Museum constructs a new building (set to open in 2024), more than 100 works of American art from its collection are traveling the country. The exhibition “Object Lessons in American Art” will premiere at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from February 4 to May 14, 2023. John Singleton Copley (American, 1738 – 1815), “Elkanah ... read more

*Crocker Art Museum* * February 5 through May 7, 2023* Max Beckmann (German, 1884–1950), *Self-Portrait with Bowler*, 1921. Drypoint, 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. McNay Art Museum, Gift of the Friends of the McNay, 1966.4 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. The Crocker Art Museum is pleased to announce *A Graphic Art: German Expressionist Prints from the McNay Art Museum and the Bronston Collection*, on view from February 5 through May 7, 2023. Consisting of prints by 15 artists, as well as watercolors, painting, and sculpture, *A Graphic Art* provides a view... read more

Berenice Abbott’s 1929 Photographic Album of New York City Opens at The Met March 2 Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 2, 2023, *Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929 *will present selections from a unique unbound album of photographs of New York City created by American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), shedding light on the creative process of one of the great artists of the 20th century. Consisting of 266 small black-and-white prints arranged on 32 pages, the album is a kind of photographic sketchbook that offers a rare glimpse of an artist’s mind a... read more

*Artis—Naples*, *The Baker Museum* *February 4 – May 7* Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London is an exploration of the role of love in some of the greatest masterpieces of Western art. With around 100 masterpieces from the National Portrait Gallery, London—the most extensive portraiture collection in the world—Love Stories traces the role of portraiture on the changing face of love from sixteenth-century Renaissance-era painting to contemporary photography. ------------------------------ [image: David Hockney (British, b. 1937). Sir George William Langham Chr... read more

* Johannes Vermeer is famous around the world for his paintings of calm scenes in domestic settings, for the unrivalled quality of his luminous, vibrant light, and for his impressive use of illusionism. Never before have so many paintings by Vermeer been brought together in one place. This will be the biggest ever exhibition devoted exclusively to the master painter of Delft, with a total of 28 paintings from countries all over the world, including Japan and the US. In many cases, this will be the first time they are exhibited in the Netherlands. They include three works from the Fri... read more

*The Mauritshuis * *16 February – 29 May 2023* * Fondation Custodia, Paris17 June 2023 – 17 September 2023* Almost everyone knows Johannes Vermeer’s quiet interiors and that little street he painted, but few people know that artist Jacobus Vrel (active c. 1640-1660) was already producing scenes of this kind before the paint was dry on Vermeer’s first masterpiece. The Mauritshuis shares the story of this mysterious painter in *Vrel – Forerunner of Vermeer.* The exhibition will tell the story of how Vrel was rediscovered in the 19th and early 20th century using a selection of his ... read more

*Lower Belvedere* *3 February to 29 May 2023 * Which works by Vincent van Gogh did Gustav Klimt actually know? How familiar was he with Henry Matisse’s oeuvre? Together with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Belvedere traces the demonstrable influence of those avant-garde artists on the great master of Viennese Modernism. The exhibition also includes works that do not usually go on loan due to their fragile condition. With Water Serpents II, last shown publicly in Austria in 1964, one of Klimt's major works returns to Vienna. General Director Stella Rollig: “How could we sta... read more

Two rare and exquisite Lucian Freud paintings that trace the artist’s enduring fascination with the natural world throughout his distinguished career will highlight Christie’s 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 February 2023. Unseen in public since 1974, *Scillonian Beachscape* (1945-46, estimate: £3,500,000-5,500,000), is an early painting by the artist, and one of a handful of works inspired by a formative visit to the Isles of Scilly, accompanied by his close friend, the artist John Craxton. During the trip, Freud created a number of drawings and completed this canv... read more

*PABLO PICASSO, FEMME ASSISE À LA GALETTE DES ROIS, 1965, OIL ON CANVAS, 100 X 73 CM.* *EST. HK$60M - 80M/ US$7.7M - 10M* This Autumn in Hong Kong, for the fourth consecutive season[1], Sotheby's will once again present an exceptional work by Pablo Picasso in Asia. Making its auction debut, and unseen in public for more than thirty years, *Femme assise à la galette des rois* - a loving portrait of the artist’s second wife, Jacqueline Roque - will lead Sotheby’s Hong Kong Modern Art Evening Auction on 7 October with an estimate of HK$60-80 million / US$7.7-10 million. Picasso fi... read more

*LONDON, 22 JANUARY 2023 –* The women in Picasso’s life have always been at the heart of the artist’s oeuvre. On September 5, 1935, a new muse arrived in the form of his daughter Maya, named María de la Conceptión after Picasso’s beloved late sister, and born in secrecy while Picasso was still married to his first wife, the former ballerina Olga Khokhlova. The daughter of his greatest love Marie-Thérèse Walter, Maya was to prove an immense source of happiness for Picasso. Her timely birth coincided with a personal crisis which Picasso later referred to as “the worst period of hi... read more

Freeman’s biannual *European Art & Old Masters* auction brings the best of the Continent, England, and Scotland to market, and this February 14 is led by *La Fleur Préférée *(Lot 58), a striking life-size outdoor portrait of a farm girl by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Offered with an estimate of *$400,000-600,000*, the painting was executed in 1895, at the height of Bouguereau’s career, and boasts an extensive provenance, having originally been bought directly from the artist. The work comes to Freeman’s directly from a private collection in North Carolina and has been in US ... read more

On the occasion of the 225th anniversary of the MSK Ghent, the museum is presenting the first ever monographic exhibition on Theodoor Rombouts (1597-1637), the virtuoso of Flemish Caravaggism. Rombouts was an established figure in the Antwerp art world. But although his painting was appreciated during his short life, the Antwerp Baroque gods Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Antony Van Dyck (1599-1641) pushed Rombouts' artistic legacy into relative obscurity after his early death. The exhibition reveals Rombouts' artistic personality and places his work in a new perspective. Mo... read more

The January 25th live American Art auction presents a wonderful assortment of works in a variety of styles and periods. Edward Henry Potthast (American, 1857-1927) Ring Around the Rosie 24 x 30 in. (61.0 x 76.2 cm) framed 34 x 40 x 1 1/2 in. AMERICAN ART BONHAMS SKINNER 25 January 2023, 12:00 EST Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts US$200,000 - US$300,000 A delightful, large summer scene by Edward Potthast of children enjoying a romping game of Ring Around the Rosie leads the auction. Other lots of particular note are a large oil by realist figure painter John Koch titled Manu... read more

* Chrysler Museum * *October 7, 2022, to January 8, 2023* *New Orleans Museum of Art * *February 10 to May 7, 2023* *Toledo Museum of Art * *June 3 to September 3, 2023* The exhibition features more than 125 objects, including paintings, sculptures, reliefs and works on paper. Lawrence’s *Nigeria* series (1964-65) anchors the exhibition and appears alongside works by several Mbari Artists and Writers Club members, including Duro Ladipo, Twins Seven-Seven, Muraina Oyelami, Asiru Olatunde, Jacob Afolabi and Adebisi Akanji. The show also includes letters Lawrence wrote to his f... read more