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]

Norton Simon Picasso Collection

You can see similarities to the Norton Simon Picasso Collection and Galerie Michaels!

LACMA and Picasso

Check out LACMA's (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Picasso Collection! Above are some of the works Galerie Michael has!

Dreams and Lies of Franco - at Picasso Museum and Galerie Michael

Picasso Museum currently has on exhibition the "Dream and Lie of Franco" etching and aquatint 1st and 2nd plate.

Galerie Michal also currently has on exhibition "the Dreams and Lies of Franco" Etching and aquatint 2nd plate, only difference ours is for sale. Truely a museum quality work.

Check out the Museums work here!

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"On January 8, 1937, Picasso began work on The Dream and Lie of Franco, a
satire against the military uprising of the previous July. It was also at this
time that the artist formalized his support for the legitimate government of the
Spanish Republic and was the first evidence of the work to the official
commission that came to visit. The pair of etchings was finally printed on
Picasso’s own initiative, together with a text he himself had written, and the
money raised from sales of the copies donated to the Republican cause. Each of
the two plates that make up the work is divided into nine panels, and the sheets
were originally intended to be cut up to produce a series of postcards, although
this was never done. The formal structure of the sequence of images is close to
that of a cartoon or comic strip; what we see here is a committed artist
bringing together the most avant-garde concepts and grassroots popular culture
in the service of a cause. Picasso then set the etchings aside until late May.
In the days prior to this, the artist had started to work on Guernica, his great
mural painting for the Spanish pavilion at the Paris International Exposition,
which is a direct consequence of his work on The Dream and Lie of Franco. On May
25 he added some tonalities to the aquatint and finally, on June 7, completed
the second plate, with new illustrations in which dramatically intense images of
death replace the initial parody. "

-- From Picasso Museum Exhibition

GM Picasso vs Picasso Museum Picasso

Galerie Michael has a few things in common with the Picasso Museum of Barcelona. Galerie Michael has many of the same works as the museum does. Check the Picasso Museum's works that we have for sale. See one can really own a museum quality work, history and fine art from Galerie Michael.

Check out the museums website here: Picasso Museum's Picasso

Major Picasso exhibition begins U.S. tour

"The 176-work exhibit also highlights Picasso's depictions of his numerous
mistresses and muses, including Dora Maar, a the French surrealist
photographer."
Major Picasso exhibition begins U.S. tour

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Picasso Exhibit Breaks Records at Virginia Museum

Picasso Exhibit Breaks Records at Virginia Museum

Quote by Van Gogh

Van Gogh, 1890:

“These last days we have had rather bad weather here, but today it was a real spring day, and the fields of young wheat, with the violet hills in the distance, are so beautiful, and the almond trees are beginning to blossom everywhere"

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Question of the Week: What Makes a Painting a Masterpiece?

Question of the Week: What Makes a Painting a Masterpiece?

Yelp Review!

Nancy Y. of Los Angeles Blogged about Galerie Michael on March 15th, 2011. Check out what she had to say:

This place is a gem, an incredible space, with real art by renowned artists. Housed in the former Jose Eber Salon on Via Rodeo, the owner and his partners have arguably the best private collection of Picasso artwork on the west coast! ... check out the rest

Picasso and Linocuts

After World War II, Picasso’s proclivity as a printmaker increased substantially, further demonstrating his intuitive ability to recognize the endless possibilities inherent in any medium in which he chose to work.

Of particular fascination to Picasso was the process of the Linoleum cut. Holding true to his methodology of adapting a chosen medium to his own language and individual approach, Picasso took this most basic printing method (an art form so simplistic that it is often a project approached by pre-schoolers) to such extremes that it challenged his printers to what was considered the limits of their skills as craftsmen.

Picasso’s real interest in the linocut began in 1951 when he was seventy years old, and lasted for most of twenty years in his work. During this period, Picasso not only makes reference to his own previous work, but also characteristically develops images of other artists (Rembrandt, El Greco, Cranch, and Manet), until they are Picasso’s invention in 1959 of the one-block technique of linocut printing enabled him to achieve brilliantly colored and richly textured works on paper. Like woodblock printing the linoleum is cut away from the flat surface of the block except those areas that, when inked and printed, articulate the components of the composition. Softer, more supple and lighter in weight than wood, linoleum can be cut, gouged, and slashed with greater speed and much less effort than wood. This material and process suited Picasso’s temperament well: by taking something away he was also creating, a contradiction the artist reveled in. The linocut images present to the buyer a rare opportunity to own a color work by this 20th century master.

Femme au Fauteuil

Femme au Fauteuil, 1949, is considered Picasso’s graphic masterpiece in the medium of lithography. “In November 1948, Picasso purchased an elaborately embroidered leather and sheep’s wool coat while in Poland attending the communists-sponsored Peace Conference. Upon his return from Poland, Picasso felt compelled to create. The combination of the newly acquired coat, and an extraordinary antique armchair which occupied Picasso’s studio, became the inspiration for the Armchair Woman (femme au Fauteuil). Francoise, Picasso’s lover at the time, was the model for this exemplary work.

Picasso's Women!

Picasso's Armchair Woman Apres Cranach

Picasso, Pablo

Portrait de Jeune Fille, D'apres Cranach le Jeune. II

Linocut on paper

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Lucas Cranach the Younger is a painter and engraver of the Renaissance art German, born in Wittenberg on 4 October 1515 and died in Weimar in 1586 .

Son of Lucas Cranach the Elder , it supports the activity of his father and the family workshop from 1525. His style is so close to that of the latter it is difficult to distinguish clearly between the two works from each other, especially from the 1530s and the death of his brother Hans in 1537.

In 1540, he married Barbara Bruck, daughter of Gregor von Brück, (Chancellor of the Elector of Saxony, Frederick the Wise), then widowed, remarried Schurff Magdalene, niece of Philip Melanchthon (a famous humanist). In 1550, the captivity of his father, he became head of the workshop, and the latter's death in 1553, became its owner.

From 1549 to 1568 he served on City Council Wittenberg, successively holding the posts of chancellor and then mayor. Orders for the princes of Saxony, ensuring their prosperity, until his death in 1586.

Right image: Cranach the Younger's Portrait of a Woman

PICASSO and HIS WOMEN EXHIBITION Starts 3/11

Alex Renoir Hard at Work in His Studio