painted wood and glass box construction with metal rods, ring, nails, glass, plastic ball, clay pipe and collaged elements
10 by 14 by 3 3/4 in. 25.4 by 35.6 by 9.5 cm.
Executed circa 1960.
A page to stash images of various pieces of art, largely from exhibitions visited.
A few years ago there was a show at Tate Modern which included a piece titled something like toenails on felt. The piece comprised, perhaps unsurprisingly, some pared toenails on a piece of black felt. I made a note at the time of the artist and title, but have never seen my note again. I'll ask next time I'm there.
A Sotheby's auction of The Collection of Allen Stone. This piece is Joseph Cornell's Soap Bubble Set (Eclipsing Binary, Algol with Magnitude Changes, described as
| signed and titled on the reverse painted wood and glass box construction with metal rods, ring, nails, glass, plastic ball, clay pipe and collaged elements 10 by 14 by 3 3/4 in. 25.4 by 35.6 by 9.5 cm. Executed circa 1960. |
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I failed to grab the image from their web site and so that shown is a very similar piece from Google.
Sold in September 2011 for $146,500.
Two shows on 7th September, BP awards at the National Portrait Gallery and eyewitness at the Royal.
The BP awards at the National Portrait Gallery. Many great and imaginative works, but the one which really appealed to me was Courtney Pine with a Mondrian as a backdrop.
| Daan van Doom Courtney Pine. Oil on panel, 150x150cm source, NPG |
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| Mondrian Composition in line, 1916. Oil on canvas, 108x108 cm |
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eyewitness celebrated the extraordinary talents and output of Hungarian photographers in C20. The headline acts were Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy and Munkácsi. My favourite is, of course, Kertész, but not only for the Mondrian connection, he also provided several of the highlights of the show.
| André Kertész Chez Mondrian, 1926 25.3x20.3 |
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| André Kertész Satiric Dancer, 1926 25.2x20.3cm |
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| André Kertész Landing Pigeon, 1960 25.3x20.3cm |
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| André Kertész Martinique, 1972 25.3x20.3cm source |
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| György Kepes Juliet Shadow Cage (Vision II), 1939 25.7x20cm |
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| Kati Horna Stairway to the Cathedral, 1937 25.4x20.3cm |
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To Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, for one of the most creative and entertaining exhibitions I have ever seen, Von Ribbentrop in St. Ives, Art and War in the Last Resort, by Andrew Lanyon. Here's a review. The show rests on combinining the events that Nazi bigwig VR holidayed in Cornwall in the 1930s and that several British modernist painters decamped to St Ives to avoid WW2. Also central to the exhibit is the "discovery" there of primitivist Alfred Wallis by Nicholson and Wood. Here are a couple of my favourite images (and titles) from the show: the shop also had a postcard of the Dick Bruna piece.
| Andrew Lanyon, Alfred Wallis noticing Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood half an hour before their discovery of him, in August 1928. source, Kettle's Yard |
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| Andrew Lanyon, A female spy, ready for dropping into France, brutalises herself by killing things she loves - flowers she has grown from seed. source, Kettle's Yard |
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| Dick Bruna, Miffy meets Mondrian source, Kettle's Yard |
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We also attended The Vorticists at Tate Britain. There were many interesting pieces there, one of which I'll try to show, but most interesting was their manifesto - details to follow.
Watching an interview with Peter Blake (Dartford Boy) today (see also Manifestos), I want to find a copy of his is it too late to be an abstract expressionist?.
In looking for that, I came across some other pieces it would be a shame to lose track of.
| Franz Kline, Suspended, 1953 source added 11Jul11 |
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| Peter Blake, Am I too late to be an Abstract Expressionist, 1988 source added 11Jul11 |
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I already have a page called stuff, so this will have to be things.