The Art Reserve- Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914

Pablo Picasso, Still life with Guitar, Variant state. Paris, assembled before November 15, 1913. Subsequently preserved by the artist. Paperboard, paper, string, and painted wire installed with cut cardboard box, Overall: 30 x 20 1/2 x 7 3/4″

The Museum of Modern Art’s much anticipated exhibition, Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914, opens next week. The show will include some seventy collages, drawings, mixed-media pieces, photographs, and constructions.

“Sometime between October and December 1912, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) made a guitar. Cobbled together from cardboard, paper, string, and wire, materials he cut, folded, threaded, and glued, Picasso’s purely visual instrument resembled no sculpture ever seen before. In 1914 the artist reiterated his fragile papery construction in more fixed and durable sheet metal form. These two Guitars, both gifts from the artist to MoMA, bracket an incandescent period of material and structural experimentation in Picasso’s work. It is this breakthrough moment in twentieth-century art, and the Guitars place within it, that Picasso: Guitars 1912–1914 explores.” – MoMA

http://theartreserve.com/coming-soon-picasso-guitars-1912-1914

Rembrandt Research Project ended

"Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings" have been will have a much-reduced final volume.

The Rembrandt Research Project (RRP) is to be closed down, although it is tantalisingly near to finishing its full catalogue. After 42 years of work, five volumes of the Courpis of Rembrandt Paintings have been published, the most recent last October (Springer Publishing 1,200 Euro's). There was to have been one more detailed volume, but this has been dropped.

In meticulous detail, the Courpus provides entries on 240 paintings which have been accepted as works by Rembrandt, along with 162 doubted or rejected works. This leaves 80 works which have not yet been catalogued, a quarter of the oeuvre. Read more here

Article by Martin Bailey

List of looted antiquities finally released

Ministry admits 54 objects were stolen from the Egyptian Museum : Read about it

Famous works and images of locations

One of Galerie Michael's staff members shared this link as a way to see the famous works (like those created by Van Gogh, Raffaelli and Monet just to name a few) in comparison with an image of the actual location depicted in the paintings. Check it out for your self here!

Enfant au Biscuit

"Jean Renoir, the artist's second son, is represented here nibbling a
biscuit. When this fresh and apealing portrait was made, the artist was living
with his family in Montemarte, in an old house known as the Chateau des
Bruillards. Jean Renoir later became a famous film director. He was born in
1894, the year in wich his father, Peirre-August Renoir, made the
aquintance of Ambrose Vollard (Also Picasso's Dealer). Renoir drew this
lithograph in 1898"

-- [Stella 31]