Rehs Galleries Inc., a New York gallery specializing in 19th and 20th-century works of art, announces the discovery of Place de la Republique en Soir – an early Edouard Cortes that dates from circa 1905. Born in Lagny, France, on August 6th, 1882, into a family of artists, Edouard followed the family tradition and started training with his father at an early age. In 1899, at the age of 16, he made his debut at the Paris Salon with Le Labour, a painting which clearly owed a debt to both Realist and Naturalist painters as well as his father and brother. The work’s acceptance by the Salon jury signaled that the artist showed great promise. The critics agreed. Le Figaro proclaimed: “His style and his color have greatly impressed the jury. Young Cortès did, of course, attend a good school: we all know what a talented artist his father is.” The newspaper Le Matin commented that Cortès was “A little chap, only so high, who

Audiences today generally know the career of Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) in three periods: the Sausalito, Albuquerque, Urbana, and “early Berkeley” periods of Abstract Expressionism; the Berkeley figurative/representational period; and lastly the famous Ocean Park and Healdsburg series of abstractions. Yet Diebenkorn’s earliest work remains very little known. The exhibition, Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942–1955, is on view at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD from April 26 to July 10, 2019 — the only venue on the East Coast. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue aim to present a comprehensive view of Diebenkorn’s evolution to maturity, focusing solely on the paintings and drawings that precede his 1955 shift to figuration at age 33. Included in the exhibition are 100 paintings and drawings from the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, offering a full picture of the young artist&#

Tutankhamun, the boy king of ancient Egypt, came to power only after two of his sisters jointly held the throne, according to an Egyptologist at Canada’s Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM). Researchers have known for more than half a century that a queen had reigned before Tutankhamun, whose intact tomb was discovered in 1922, sparking global interest in Egyptology. Some thought she was Nefertiti, the sister and wife of Akhenaten, who proclaimed herself “king” following his death. Others believed it to be the eldest daughter Princess Meritaten. UQAM’s Valerie Angenot says she has now conducted an analysis based on the study of symbols which revealed that two daughters of Akhenaten seized power at his death while their brother Tutankhamun, aged four or five at the time, was too young to rule. Akhenaten had six daughters before having his son later on, who had a frail constitution and was plagued by ill

Developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the early years of the twentieth century, Cubism revolutionized visual art. The exhibition The Cubist Cosmos. From Picasso to Léger at the Kunstmuseum Basel now unfurls an expansive panorama of the era and invites visitors to rediscover some of its greatest masterpieces. Produced in cooperation with the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the chronologically organized show brings together numerous eminent Cubist works from both collections to create a setting in which the famous paintings gifted to the Kunstmuseum by Raoul La Roche shine like never before. Rounded out by treasures on loan from international collections, the presentation in Basel showcases ca. 130 works for a comprehensive survey of this seminal chapter in the history of modernism. With its enormous innovative energy, Cubism influenced the course of twentieth-century art history in ways that are hard to overstate and is an