Archive for the ‘modern art’ Category

By Emily Waldorf According to the The International Herald Tribune, a 1911 Fernand Léger painting, Smoke Over Rooftops, was returned to the heirs of Alphonse Kann by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, after a decade of research concluded that the painting had been stolen by Nazis during World War II.  Léger examined the “smoke over […]


By Emily Waldorf If money were no object, which works of art would you pick out from the 20th century to create the ne plus ultra in art collections?  Private art advisers Franck Giraud and Philippe Ségalot of the New York and Paris based art consultancy Giraud.Pissarro.Ségalot (François Pinault is a client) take a stab […]


By Emily Waldorf Christie’s owned gallery Haunch of Venison opened its New York location on September 12 with an impressive lineup of 63 blue-chip Abstract Expressionist works. The not for sale show, titled Abstract Expressionism:  A World Elsewhere, includes many works borrowed from museums in a grand gesture to make an impressive début on the New […]


Holland Cotter wrote a delicious review of Louise Bourgeois, currently at the Guggenheim through September 28, 2008.  Bourgeois, 97, was born in Paris and lives in New York.  While her work has been associated with the major movements of the 20th century, she has remained faithful to a style uniquely her own in the face of […]