Hindman’s American and European Art sale will be conducted on October 17 at 10am CST at the Chicago sale room (1338 W. Lake St.). Notable highlights include Henry Moret, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Kees Van Dongen, Jean Dufy, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Childe Hassam, Fern Isabel Coppedge and Thomas Hart Benton. The auction features works on paper by Impressionist masters, including a landscape by Pierre-Auguste Renoir titled Bord de mer Méditerranée ($50,000 – $70,000). Additional highlights include Henry Moret’s L’Ile de Ouessant, le soir ($80,000 – $120,000) and Jean Dufy’s Sevilla ($20,000 – $30,000). Also for sale is a wonderful example of Thomas Hart Benton’s commissioned work, Whiskey Barrels (or Whiskey Barrels Going into the Rackhouse to Age) at an estimated $600,000 – $800,000. The artist’s work has shown strong results at Hindman in the past, his 1967 Discussion selling for $1,0

This fall the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State spotlights one of the most original French printmakers of the nineteenth century. Fantasy and Reality: The World According to Félix Buhot opened September 25 and will be accompanied by related gallery talks and programs throughout the fall. “Felix Buhot’s achievement as a visionary artist-etcher is unprecedented,” stated museum director Erin M. Coe. “This exquisite and evocative exhibition provides visitors the space to study exceptional examples of Buhot’s experimental techniques and rich atmospheric effects for which he is best known.” Félix Buhot (1847–1898) was a uniquely experimental printmaker in France during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This period was marked by a growing interest among artists in the evocation of thoughts and emotions, which competed in the art world with lingering realist tendencies. Buhot found co

Picasso and Braque were looking a little forlorn: unsure of their new home, unsure of their new acquaintances. It was early September, six anxious weeks from the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. After three years of piecemeal renovations, the museum had shut its doors for the summer, preparing for a top-to-bottom rehang of the world’s finest collection of modern and contemporary art, with about 47,000 additional square feet to play with. Two senior curators were still installing the cardinal gallery, the one with “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” Pablo Picasso’s grand, violent painting of five contorted Catalan prostitutes. For decades, MoMA’s curators have paired the aggressive “Demoiselles” (1907) with the smaller, perspective-shattering cubist works he and Georges Braque painted a few years later. Two of them were here, propped against the wall on foam blocks.

A Banksy painting depicting the British parliament populated by chimpanzees smashed the record for the mysterious British street artist on Thursday, fetching nearly £9.9 million pounds, Sotheby’s auction house said. The 2009 work entitled “Devolved Parliament” sold for £9,879,500 ($12.1 million, 11.1 million euros) following a 13-minute battle between 10 different bidders. “Record price for a Banksy painting set at auction tonight. Shame I didn’t still own it,” the artist said on his Instagram account. The previous auction record for a Banksy artwork was $1.87 million, achieved by “Keep it Spotless” at Sotheby’s New York in 2008. “Devolved Parliament” was expected to fetch £1.5 million to £2 million in Thursday’s sale. The oil painting measures 4.2 metres

Looted amidst the tumult of Egypt’s 2011 revolution, the golden coffin of priest Nedjemankh was unveiled on Tuesday in Cairo after its return from New York. Standing at 1.8 metres (six foot), the fine gilded sarcophagus has gained notoriety, apart from for its historical value, for its role at the centre of an international trafficking ring Dating back to the Ptolemaic period (1st-2nd century BC), the ornate wooden coffin was designed for Nedjemankh, a high priest of the ram-headed god Heryshef. The shimmering artefact adorned with gesso reliefs had been housed since 2017 in New York’s Metropolitan Museum, which purchased it from a Paris art dealer for around 3.5 million euros ($3.8 million). But in February, a Met exhibition which named the high priest had to shut down after being informed the sarcophagus had been plundered by a multi-national trafficking ring. It had been smuggled out of Minya in southern E