By Stephen May
Man Ray (1890–1978), the enfant terrible of American Modernism, made his greatest contribution to the movement through his pioneering photographs of African masks, headdresses and figures. These images influenced the work of European and American avant-garde artists, and promoted appreciation of African objects as works of art. Man Ray’s Modernist photographic aesthetic had a significant impact on ways in which African art was interpreted at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Man Ray was part of a movement between the world wars in which photography emerged as a major vehicle of creative expression. The developing medium was embraced by artists on both sides of the Atlantic in search of new art forms that responded to the profound social upheavals of the era. Man Ray led the way in introducing radical approaches to the art of photography. His achievements as avant-garde provocateur and gifted photographer are celebrated in “Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens,” on view at The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., through January 10.
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Sales Of Contemporary Art Bust Estimates At $178.5 Million
On November 11 at Sotheby’s, Andy Warhol’s monumental masterpiece, “200 One Dollar Bills,” brought $43,762,500, soaring past the presale estimate of $8/12 million.
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 IFPDA Presents printfair 09 Rembrandt, Renoir and Rauschenberg. Just three of the scores of impressive names spanning the history of printmaking, past and present, that were recently displayed during the International Fine Print Dealers Association’s annual show, printfair 09.
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Sales Of Contemporary Art Bust Estimates At $178.5 Million On November 11 at Sotheby’s, Andy Warhol’s monumental masterpiece, “200 One Dollar Bills,” brought $43,762,500, soaring past the presale estimate of $8/12 million.
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LACMA Presents Exhibition Of Luis Meléndez Still Lifes The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents “Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life,” the first US-exhibition in 25 years of Eighteenth Century Spanish painter Luis Meléndez, on view through January 3.
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Nov 10th, 09- Miniature Portraits Stolen From Dealer’s Vehicle At Greenwich Antiques Show A car burglary was reported following the Greenwich Antiques Show the weekend of October 17–18. Stolen from a dealer’s van were items that had been purchased by a collector at a Pennsylvania auction and given to the dealer to be framed.
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