Stremmel Gallery presents My Montana featuring artists Jerry Iverson and Gordon McConnell. As McConnell has become a familiar name at Stremmel Gallery, it will be the first time Iverson is exhibiting his work in Reno. The opening reception is 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 21, 2015 and the exhibition will continue through June 30, 2015. Both the opening reception and exhibition are free to the public. RSVP to this event on Facebook.
Picasso’s “Les femmes d’Alger (Version O)”
“Picasso is Not Just a Valuable Abstract” By John Grapper (john.gapper@ft.com) for the Financial Times
When a group of wealthy investors compete with each other to buy an asset, surely they have a clear idea of its financial value? Jussi Pylkkänen, president of Christie’s, who on Monday night auctioned Picasso’s “Les Femmes d’Alger” (Version O) to an anonymous buyer for $179.4m, thinks they do.
“People sometimes think of buying art as a frivolous occupation but these bidders are very conscious of what the object is worth, and they make decisions in an extremely considered way,” Mr Pylkkänen assured me afterwards. He emphasised that the final bids for the Picasso, in a New York auction that raised $706m for 34 works of 20th-century art, proceeded in careful, $500,000 increments.
Erling Kagge’s new book “A Poor Collector’s Guide to Buying Great Art”
By Henri Neuendorf for news.artnet.com
Erling Kagge is a Norwegian art collector, explorer, mountaineer, publisher, and lawyer. He gained fame for being the first person to walk to the South Pole alone, and he has also climbed Mount Everest. Today, he runs the publishing company Kagge Forlag, which he founded.
One of his most recent releases is the book A Poor Collector’s Guide to Buying Great Art, in which Kagge narrates how he built his impressive art collection—which includes works by Wolfgang Tillmans, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince, Tauba Auerbach, and Urs Fischer—despite having a limited budget.
Kagge’s book offers advice through 24 tips, of which we have distilled the 10 most useful pearls of wisdom for the burgeoning collector with limited resources.
Vincent Van Gogh’s “Portrait of Dr. Gachet” and “Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers”. Two paintings that were considered auction highs when they were purchased through Christies in 1990 and 1987.
By Marion Maneker for the Art Market Monitor
One of the more curious aspects of today’s art market is the way so many long-time art dealers seem to have a high level of disdain for buyers in the market. Is this merely a way to flatter their own customers by rubbishing other buyers or is it a sign of growing frustration and disenchantment?
The Churchill Arts Council opened a new visual art exhibition of recent mixed-media works by Robert Brady at the Oats Park Art Center on Saturday, February 27, 2010.
“Mined to Bare features works in a wide variety of media from wood sculpture to ceramics. The artist will conduct a talk on the work and its inspirations at 4:00 p.m. and a reception will follow from 5-7 p.m. Both the conversation with the artist and the reception are free and open-to-the-public. For information, call 423-1440. Read More
The work of abstract painter John Belingheri recently appeared in a Merrill Lynch advertisement for the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Investor, Saturday/Sunday, March 6-7, 2010. (See ‘The New Basics and Wealth Manager’ B8-9)
