By admin, on February 15th, 2013
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Wednesday, February 5: 12-7pm
Thursday, February 6: 12-7pm
Friday, February 7: 12-9pm
Saturday, February 8: 12-7pm
Sunday, February 9: 12-7pm
Presenting an array of leading galleries from around the world, the American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF) is a spectacular showcase for art and design. Guests enjoy a wide variety of Classical, Modern and Contemporary Art, as well as Period and Contemporary Jewelry, 20th & 21st Century Design, Sculpture, Photography and Works on Paper.
AIFAF celebrates its 18th anniversary in 2014. The Fair has long been regarded as one of America’s leading fine art fairs and is a highlight of the Palm Beach social season. AIFAF is visited annually by American and international collectors, curators and connoisseurs.
The Fair is fully vetted. Experts examine every work for quality, authenticity and condition, ensuring that collectors can buy with complete certainty and confidence.
By admin, on February 9th, 2013
 Rudolf Budja – An original “Electric Chair” (1964-65) in pink by Andy Warhol from a series of silkscreened paintings of death and disasters Warhol began in 1962 that included photographs of suicides, plane and car crashes, and tragedy-stricken celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy. All the images were taken from the print media. He depicted an electric chair in several groups of silk-screens throughout the 1960s.
 AIFAF veteran Richard Green (London) brings an impressive collection of works spanning from 17th century Old Masters to 21st century British art. Among the master works presented at AIFAF include original works by Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and a Bernardo Bellotto for upwards of 10 million dollars.
From Mark Borghi Fine Art: Rare works from German-born American abstract expressionist painter Hans Hofmann including “Furry” – Oil on Canvas. In addition to works by Hofmann the gallery has an impressive exhibition of works by Andy Warhol including originals from Warhol’s famous Polaroid series.
 Gladwell & Patterson present an assembly of masters with original works by Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Alfred Sisley and Claude Monet among others. Highlights of the exhibition include Picasso’s “Paysage de Juan-les-Pins,” completed in 1925 the landscape depicts the fashionable beachside town in South France where Picasso spent the summers of 1924 and 1925 and Claude Monet’s “Pommiers en Fleurs” one of a group of four canvases Monet executed in the late summer of 1878 while living in Vetheuil with his wife Camille and their two children.
By admin, on February 6th, 2013
By admin, on February 5th, 2013
Richard Green Gallery, London
Bernardo Bellotto
Venice Venice 1720 – 1780 Warsaw
Venice, the Grand Canal looking south-west from the Rialto Bridge to the Palazzo Foscari
Oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 36 in / 60 x 91.4 cm
Copyright of Richard Green Gallery, London.
Pablo Picasso
Malaga 1881 – 1973 Mougins
Nature morte à la pomme et au pichet bleu
Signed and dated 19/2/38
Oil on canvas
8 1/8 x 9 5/8 in / 20.6 x 24.4 cm
Framed Size 14 1/2 x 16 x 1 1/2 in / 36.8 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm
Copyright of Richard Green Gallery, London.
Pablo Picasso
Malaga 1881 – 1973 Mougins
Verre et pichet
Signed; signed, dated 21 julillet 44 on reverse
Oil on canvas
15 x 21 5/8 in / 38.1 x 54.9 cm
Framed Size 24 x 31 x 2 in / 61 x 78.7 x 5.1 cm
Copyright of Richard Green Gallery, London.
Camille Pissarro
Saint Thomas 1830 – 1903 Paris
Pommiers et meules de foin dans le pré, Eragny
Signed and dated ’96
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 36 3/8 in / 73 x 92.4 cm
Framed Size 40 x 47 x 4 1/2 in / 101.6 x 119.4 x 11.4 cm
Copyright of Richard Green Gallery, London.
By admin, on February 3rd, 2013
 Always searching for the elusive and rare, Peter Finer of London has amassed an extraordinary collection of arms and armor that is a perennial favorite of AIFAF collectors and connoisseurs.
The largest dealer worldwide in estate Georg Jensen silver, The Silver Fund, will return to AIFAF in 2013. In addition to the comprehensive collection of Georg Jensen hollowware, their inventory includes exceptional 20th century silver designed by Jean Puiforicat, William Spratling, Antonio Pineda and many other great 20th century designers.
Mallett will present an outstanding collection of furniture and works of art, including pictures, clocks and other high quality objets d’art, primarily from the 18th century and Regency periods and a selection of Modern works as well. For over 100 years Mallett has been sourcing important antiques with impeccable provenance for private collectors and the great museums of the world, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
 J.C. Weinstein, Star Chandelier, Valerio Antiques
By admin, on January 31st, 2013
 The new input of Masriera for 2012 transforms into art the perception of nature,
through the floral representations and other symbolist interpretations. They are
unique, perfect and exclusive designs that establish a permanent dialogue of seduction
with their environment.
Masriera collection for 2012 is an exquisite sample of the eternal legacy of the Art
Nouveau artist Lluís Masriera and the universal and permanent values that the firm
maintain alive since 1839: art, sensitivity, quality, balance and eternity.
One of the most emblematic pieces of Masriera’s selection is the jewel called “Spring
dance” (CO-51) which is an 18 carat gold necklace with 4 garnets of a total weight of
6.61 carats, 470 brilliant cut diamonds with a total weight of 5.84 carats and fired
enamel. The jewel impacts for the delicacy and elegance of the floral silhouettes
which combine in a harmonic way with the tones of the gold, precious stones and
enamels.
Masriera faces that way a year full of activity, with exhibitions in worldwide museums
and especially in the recently opened Masriera Museum, inside the Bagués Hotel of
Barcelona, where one can see the permanent exhibition of a selection of pieces
showing the trajectory of the company, one of the most important jewellery firms in
Europe.
By admin, on January 29th, 2013
 Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Pommiers et meules de foin dans le pré, Eragny Signed lower right: C.Pissarro.96, oil on canvas; 28 ¾ x 36 ⅜ in/ 73 x 92.4 cm
In a customary tour de force, the pre-eminent London dealer, Richard Green is taking a large stand at Palm Beach where he will display more than 60 paintings and sculptures of superb quality by 30 British, European and American artists, encompassing 18th century Venetian views (Bernardo Bellotto), 19th century ‘belle époque’ and sporting subjects (Jean Béraud, Thomas Blinks), Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings (Eugène Boudin, Pierre Bonnard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte) and modern masterpieces by Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore.
A special focus this year will be on the supreme equestrian painter of the 20th century, Sir Alfred Munnings, and the three leading British modernists, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, all of whom will be no strangers to an American audience.
Alfred Munnings (1878 – 1959) attracted a strong following in America in his own lifetime. In 1924, he was a judge for the International Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, arriving on the RMS Berengaria in the company of the plutocrat Frederick Henry Prince, whom he painted as the Master of the Pau Hunt. ‘Gloriously mad’ Gatsbyesque, Prohibition-era parties followed in Massachusetts and Long Island mansions, together with a succession of high-society equestrian portraits – including ‘Mrs Margaretta Park Frew’ and ‘Sidney Webster Fish’, on display at the Fair – that rival Stubbs in their commanding elegance. In 1933, Munnings painted Mr Paul Mellon on ‘Dublin’ (Yale Center for British Art). In addition to equestrian portraits, Green will display the full range of Munnings’s masterly brushwork as shown in lively horse racing scenes, colourful rural Gypsy life, and landscapes of his native East Anglia in which he proves a worthy successor to John Constable, an artist whom he greatly admired.
Ben Nicholson (1984-1982), Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) and Henry Moore (1898-1986) were the three great international torchbearers of the British modern movement of the 20th century. The three were close friends and rivals, not only in artistic terms but also in their desire to capture the American audience.
Henry Moore’s sculptures are visible throughout American museums and cities from Seattle to Boston and Miami. His first one-man exhibition at the Buchholz Gallery in New York in 1943 was of his widely acclaimed ‘Shelter’ drawings, an example of which will be at the Fair, and was followed by a retrospective at MOMA New York in 1946. Among several examples of his sculptures at the Fair will be a bronze maquette for the ‘Reclining Figure’ made for the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, in 1945.
Ben Nicholson is similarly well represented in American museums, having first exhibited in MOMA New York’s ‘Cubism and Abstract Art’ in 1936. Richard Green will show a selection of his works including a 1936 geometrical abstract from the same series as the Mondrian-inspired abstract bought by American collector, A.E.Gallatin in 1939 and donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and September 1955 (Alcino) which has already featured in several exhibitions in American museums, including a retrospective of Nicholson’s work at the Dallas Museum of Art (1964) and The First Flint Invitational exhibition of contemporary art at the University of Michigan (1966).
Barbara Hepworth is also well represented in private and public collections in America where she exhibited successfully from 1949 onwards. The gallery will take Curved Form on Red (1962), a painting with unmistakable sculptural qualities.
Richard Green’s selection of French Realist, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works – including paintings by Jean Béraud, Eugène Boudin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Utrillo and Pierre Bonnard – is a fascinating panorama of city and country, sunlight and shadow.
A highlight is Pissarro’s Pommiers et meules de foin dans le pré, Eragny, one of a group of four paintings made in the high summer of 1896, in Eragny-sur-Epte, a small village north-west of Paris, where the artist lived. In a letter to his son, Lucien, on 17th August, he wrote:
“I’m not moving from our meadow. I did four highly studied paintings, but they are merely [views of] trees, the weather is so changeable that I dare venture no further.” This classic example of sophisticated Impressionist observation was first exhibited in New York in 1897 at the Durand-Ruel Galleries, after which it has remained in America until recently.
By admin, on January 9th, 2013
ASIAN CONTEMPORARY:
Michael Goedhuis returns to AIFAF with a presentation of leading Chinese contemporary art, as well as works from the Neolithic period to Modern. The gallery will bring works by ink painters Yao Jui-chung, Wei Ligang and Zhang Zhaohui and sculptors Li Chen and Xie Aige, among additional Chinese artists.
 Xie Aige, Tai Chi Series No. 6, Bronze, Courtesy of Michael Goedhuis Ltd.  Yao Jui-chung, "Romance Elopement", hand made paper, ink with gold leaf, Courtesy of Michael Goedhuis Ltd.
By admin, on January 8th, 2013
Now in its 17th year, the American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF) hosts dealers from around the world presenting artwork spanning all periods – from antiquities to contemporary, as well as period to contemporary jewelry.
AIFAF has been recognized as one of this country’s premier art and antiques fair for 17 years. In 2012, AIFAF introduced a major redesign to incorporate more modern and contemporary design, which was well received by exhibitors, press and collectors alike. The 2013 fair will continue its tradition of bringing together an exceptional array of fully vetted art, antiques and jewelry exhibitors. A selection of 2013 highlights follow:
 Calder - Ballons 1968, Courtesy of Waterhouse & Dodd A MENAGERIE OF MASTERS:
AIFAF veteran Richard Green Gallery (London) will bring an impressive collection of works spanning from 17th century Old Masters to 21st century British art. The gallery brings forty-five years of expertise and knowledge in their specialties and is known for the excellent provenances of their works. This year’s presentation includes Claude Monet, Jean Béraud and Gerhard Richter among other notable artists.
Waterhouse & Dodd (London + New York) will present a distinguished collection of Impressionist and Modern Art alongside contemporary works by some of the times’ most coveted artists, including works by Alexander Calder, Albert Gleizes, Albert Marquet, Gustave Loiseau, Henri Lebasque, Fernand Léger, Jean Metzinger, Raoul Dufy, Susan Valadon, Jean Francois Rauzier and Lynn Chadwick.
New to AIFAF, Gallery Shchukin (Paris + Moscow) will present works by contemporary artists and world-famous masters of painting, including artists of the 20th-century avant-garde, Russian émigré artists and contemporary artists working with the latest trends.
For more information on AIFAF exhibitors visit www.aifaf.com.
By admin, on November 8th, 2012
 New Miami Waterfront Location International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) is pleased to announce the debut of Miami Art + Design (MA+D), in collaboration with the SNA, the organizer of the prestigious Paris Biennale and co-organizer of New York’s Salon: Art + Design. The two entities will jointly organize the new fair, set to premiere February 12-18, 2014 in a spectacular new state-of-the-art waterfront location in the Noguchi Bayfront Park.
“This collaboration will bring Miami a new major ‘in season’ international event,” said David Lester of IFAE. “The new waterfront location the heart of Miami’s Arts & Entertainment District next to Museum Park is one of the most extraordinary and exciting fair locations in the world.”
The fair will feature the best of American and European art and design. “This fair will be especially attractive to collectors, architects, and designers from throughout the United States and Latin America,” said Christian Deydier, President of the SNA. “Miami is a vibrant, exciting city that has become a major cultural meeting point for the Americas.”
The Lesters and David Setford of IFAE will guide the fair with a Committee from SNA composed of Benoit Sapiro, Barry Friedman, Christian Deydier and Robert Vallois.
ABOUT IFAE:
IFAE is owned and operated by veteran fair organizers David and Lee Ann Lester. The dynamic pair has organized over 70 international art fairs in art capitals around the world including New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, and London.
The firm founded Miami, Florida’s original international art fair, Art Miami, in the Miami Beach Convention Center in 1991, the Palm Beach International Art & Antique Fair (now American International Fine Art Fair) in 1997, Art Palm Beach in 1998, Art Sarasota and Art Greenwich in 2011. This December, the organizers will launch the International Contemporary Jewelry Fair (ICJF) – a new specialty fair for innovative jewelry design that will take place on the firm’s extraordinary 228’ purpose-built megayacht, SeaFair.
For more information on IFAE please visit www.ifae.com.
ABOUT SYNDICAT NATIONAL DES ANTIQUAIRES:
The Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA) – is the largest association of art and design dealers in France and the producers of the famous Paris Biennale. The association was founded in 1947, with the motto of “authenticity, quality and integrity” thereby ensuring compliance with a code of honor to which all its members adhere.
The Syndicat National des Antiquaires has been organizing the Biennale des Antiquaires since 1962. The Biennale, with its 119 exhibitors, features a wide range of specialties presented by internationally renowned professionals in antiques, fine arts and jewelry.
In addition to the Biennale, the SNA will be co- organizing the new Salon: Art + Design in New York, to be held November 8-12, 2012 at the Park Armory Arts Center.
For more information on the SNA please visit: www.sna-france.com
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