Organization of Independent Artists

06/20/2022

The artist who made a splash at Art Miami is now having his work sold at auction, at Phillips Hong Kong, for the first time ever.

06/19/2022

The photographer William Klein joined the staff of Vogue in 1954, and became one of its most modern contributors during the following decade. Although Klein had no use for the conventions of fashion photography, he had a fine time undermining and spoofing them. Some of his best pictures tease the artificiality of the pose or the setup: instead of naturalism, he went for theatricality—a session in a wax museum, or a clutch of models on a rooftop, each with her own full-length mirror. The wit and sophistication with which he carried all this off quickly established him as a true pro, one of the most reliable iconographers of a period otherwise dominated by Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin. A knockout retrospective that recently opened at the International Center of Photography highlights Klein’s work. See more of the photographer’s lively images: http://nyer.cm/rZ7ZOOG

06/10/2022

A Filippino Lippi painting hidden in plain sight in a London bungalow sold for £255,000 ($321,000) at Dawsons Auctioneers in London.

06/01/2022

05/13/2022

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05/10/2022

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04/28/2022

Today 133 years ago, between 28 April and 2 May 1889, Vincent van Gogh wrote to his sister Willemien from Arles:

"And I still feel incapable of taking a studio again. I’m working though, and have just done two paintings of the hospital. One is a ward, a very long ward with the rows of beds with white curtains where a few figures of patients are moving.”

Ward in the hospital
Arles, 1889
Oil on canvas 74 x 92 cm
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, Switzerland

04/22/2022

MONET

A photograph of Claude Monet's Garden at his estate at Giverny, France
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04/21/2022

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