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https://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/sothebys-pages/blogs/sothebysatauction/2018/7/wayne-thiebaud-draftsman-recirc.jpg For fans craving Thiebaud, Sotheby’s is offering five works on paper by the artist in its summer online auctions: Contemporary Prints and Multiples Online (6–19 July, Online) and Contemporary Art Online: NYC (13–20 July, Online). Before Wayne Thiebaud painted drool-worthy pies and cakes, the legendary Californian artist was a cartoonist and commercial illustrator. In Wayne Thiebaud, Draftsman , The Morgan Library & Museum in New York spotlights this lesser-known side of Thiebaud by exploring his full range of works on paper for the first time. While pastel confections are included, the exhibition also features watercolors, charcoal drawings, cartoons, doodles and sketches, each uniquely reflecting how adept Thiebaud was at embracing the potential of each medium, no matter the subject.  WAYNE THIEBAUD, HALF CAKES . ESTIMATE $6,000–8,000. Among the desser...

https://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/sothebys-pages/blogs/ContemporaryCurrents/2018/7/maekawa_new_recirc_017LS1803_9TB3T.jpg From 20 July–21 September Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery will host an exhibition by Tsuyoshi Maekawa , perhaps best known for his intricate layered burlap works, and for his association with the Gutai art group. Bianca Chu, Deputy Director of S|2, spoke to him to discover more. TSUYOSHI MAEKAWA, UNTITLED , 1975. Bianca Chu: You were a member of the Gutai art group from 1962-1972. What was your experience in the period immediately after the dissolution of the Gutai group? Following this, did you feel a conscious break or change in the work you were making? Tsuyoshi Maekawa: My relationship with Gutai was essentially my relationship with Jiro Yoshihara. When Yoshihara died, it meant that I had to start making my work entirely on my own. I did my best not to dwell on the past and discover a new direction, and began consciously changing my work in a dramatic way. BC:...

https://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/sothebys-pages/blogs/sothebysatauction/2018/6/alexander-calder-jewelry-recirc.jpg Sotheby’s Artfully Adorned series celebrates the artists whose playful experimentations with scale, medium and motif have brought us delightfully untraditional wearable works of art.   Imbued with personalization and sentimentality, the gift of a homemade treasure renders its value incomparable. Imagine if that bespoke present was from legendary American artist and sculptor Alexander Calder . For artists, patrons and independent spirits like Peggy Guggenheim , George O’Keeffe, Simone de Beauvoir and Joan Miró , such was not only reality but also a somewhat regular occurrence. What began as a love of found objects and inexpensive, malleable materials like silver wire grew into one of Calder’s most lauded mediums: jewelry. The first lucky recipient of the artist’s handmade accessories? His sister’s dolls. ANJELICA HUSTON WEARING AN ALEXANDER CALDER NECKLACE, NE...

https://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/sothebys-pages/blogs/sothebys-at-large/7/Marilyn_Monroe_recirc.jpg Cecil Beaton was one of the most celebrated photographers of the 20th century and his iconic images captured everyone from Hollywood greats such as Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly, to art world legends including Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. In a new series adapted from Hugo Vickers’ book Cecil Beaton Portraits & Profiles , we take a look at images from the Cecil Beaton Studio Archive , which is located at Sotheby’s in London, and uncover the stories behind the famous images. MARILYN MONROE, 1956 BY CECIL BEATON ©THE CECIL BEATON STUDIO ARCHIVE AT SOTHEBY’S Cecil Beaton had only one shoot with Marilyn Monroe, which took place at the Ambassador Hotel in New York in February 1956. The actress turned up at his suite 90 minutes late and in his diary Beaton admitted that he was: "startled, then disarmed, by her lack of inhibition". The photographer compared the act...

https://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/sothebys-pages/blogs/ContemporaryCurrents/2018/7/recirc-basquiat-blog-21-facts-yellow.jpg JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, NEW YORK, 1985. PHOTOGRAPH BY EVELYN HOFER/GETTY IMAGES. 1. Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Gérard, was born in Port au Prince, Haiti, and his mother Matilde was a New York-native of Puerto Rican descent. The artist grew up speaking Spanish, French and English. 2. Basquiat became a junior member of the Brooklyn Museum, his favorite museum, at the age of six.  In the spring of 2018, after Japanese collector Yusaku Maezawa purchased Untitled (1982) for a record-breaking $110.5 million dollars in 2017, the museum featured the homecoming exhibition One Basquiat — devoted solely to the iconic image. 3. At eight-years-old, Basquiat was hit by a car while playing in the street and suffered a broken arm and severe internal injuries. While he was recuperating from a splenoctomy, hi...

https://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/sothebys-pages/blogs/Bibliofile/2018/bamber_house_recirc.jpg In 2014, the British broadcaster and author Bamber Gascoigne unexpectedly inherited a vast crumbling 16th century mansion called West Horsley Place from his great aunt, Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe. After a seemingly fairy-tale wedding in Westminster Abbey (which was even screened in British cinemas), Mary ‘scandalously’ became a young divorcee a few years later and made West Horsley her sanctuary away from the public eye. BAMBER GASCOIGNE FORMER PRESENTER OF 'UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE' AT WEST HORSLEY PLACE, SURREY, ENGLAND, UK, © JEFF GILBERT / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO. When Bamber inherited the home, he’d never even set foot upstairs, and Mary had expected he’d sell it. However, he did the opposite and transferred his ownership to a trust and dedicated himself to rescuing the house and transforming it into a centre for the performing and visual arts. WEST HORSLEY PLACE IN 1935, FORMER H...

https://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/sothebys-pages/blogs/ContemporaryCurrents/2018/6/haring_recirc_018L18022_9TNCX_wall.jpg This large painting on paper by Keith Haring was one of the star lots of the June Contemporary Art Evening Auction .  Selling for just under £2 million, it is to date the highest value painting which has been consigned to Sotheby’s from the online estimate request platform . KEITH HARING, AUGUST 15, 1983. ESTIMATE £1,000,000–1,500,000. LOT SOLD. £1,990,000. The painting, executed in 1983, was shown in the travelling 1984 exhibition Arte di frontiera: New York Graffiti . It was then purchased from the Salvatore Ala gallery in Milan by the client’s mother in 1987 and has been in the same family ever since. Haring in the mid-1980s was recognised as an important up-and-coming artist but was certainly not the household name he is today. His first one man show at the Tony Shafrazi gallery in 1982 was a great success and helped to elevate him from his st...

https://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/sothebys-pages/blogs/EuropeanDiscoveries/2018/6/Seymour_Stein_7_recirc.jpg Although on the pulse of the very latest modern trends, one of music’s greatest A&R men, Seymour Stein, has always been a great admirer of the art of the past and an enthusiastic collector. Sotheby's  Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art sale  in London on 12 July features a selection of magnificent works from his collection, which includes one of John William Waterhouse's most famous works, The Siren . Stein's enthusiasm for collecting was demonstrated in 2003 when he sold a portion of his vast collection at Sotheby’s in New York, an eclectic selection of Art Deco furniture and porcelain, metalwork and glassware, European Symbolist and Pre-Raphaelite paintings. SEYMOUR PHOTOGRAPHED FOR ROLLING STONE, C.1977. At that time Seymour wrote, “I thought many times of opening a gallery to sell off most of what I purchased, for in truth I h...

https://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/sothebys-pages/blogs/sothebys-at-large/2018/06/bang_olufsen_speakers_recirc.jpg How do you make a product that fits in and stands out at the same time? That is the question asked by the designers and engineers at Bang & Olufsen when they set out to make the BeoSound 1 wireless speaker. The concept-driven Danish electronics company has earned devoted fans who want audio devices that deliver incredible sound and bespoke objects to curate their lives. In collaboration with Sotheby’s, Bang & Olufsen has done some curating of its own by assembling a capsule collection of five BeoSound 1 wireless speakers in never-before-seen colors: tan, orange, maroon, pink and gray. A special online sale 5–18 July is your chance to get one – or all five – Bang & Olufsen models. What’s so special about these speakers? Read on. You Will Never See These Five Colors Again  Coming directly from Bang & Olufsen’s headquarters in Struer, Den...

https://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/sothebys-pages/blogs/sothebys-at-large/2018/06/Giacometti-exh_ph054-featured-image.jpg The summer begins with three compelling solo shows by artists Mary Corse, Carol Bove, and Alberto Giacometti.   Mary Corse: A Survey in Light at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York  MAUPIN, NEW YORK; AND LISSON GALLERY, LONDON. PHOTOGRAPH © MARY CORSE. MARY CORSE, UNTITLED (WHITE MULTIPLE INNER BAND), 2003. COURTESY KAYNE GRIFFIN CORCORAN, LOS ANGELES, LEHMANN. It’s been quite the year for American artist Mary Corse . The artist, who is most often affiliated with her innovative contributions towards the West Coast Light and Space movement in the 1960s, is receiving a well-deserved spotlight after a five decade course of art making. To say she’s been busy is an understatement – from her Topanga Canyon, California studio, Corse has been preparing for three new shows being shown in tandem: Lisson Gallery (London), Dia:Beacon (New York...