Whats the deal with having shovles for hands??
There is a significance to that which I actually came across recently but I’ve forgotten. I think it may be a portraiture device similar to exaggerating the size of the face slighly while reducing the size of the cranium. I believe Lorne Campbell’s Renaissance Portraiture may hold the answer, I will consult it and revert.
Some of Jody Craddock’s portraits are class.
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The Naked Spirit of Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars.
2000/2001 acrylic, oil, paper collage, glitter, polyester resin, map pins and elephant dung on canvas.
Goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s on 15th Feb. Estimated £600,000-£800,000
I’m off to splatter cow shit against a sheet of ply and bring it into the local art gallery for a valuation.
Sure in your locality crack pot artists are 10 a penny!
It’s all good, fair competition. People are the whole time ‘finding themselves’!
True, it’s a great spot for finding yourself.
I once found myself asleep behind the snack wagon.
Can you buy those classic FILA tops anywhere? They’re class.
Those works Farmer has highlighted are just facsimiles of photographs, little or no artistic merit whatsoever. They are like the Oasis of the music world.
Surely Oasis are the Oasis of the music world.
Yeah I had realised my mistake as soon as posting but couldn’t be arsed correcting it. Pedestrian stuff anyway that can hardly be considered high art in any case. Surprised farmer it touting it up here. What’s next? Bulldogs playing snooker?
The Tribute Money
Of All The People In All The World, a traveling art exhibit in the UK, uses grains of rice to bring the large numbers behind world populations to the grasp of the average human being.
In the exhibit, one grain of rice equals one person and those grains of rice are put together to represent all kind of statistics from the small (such as the number of people who have walked on the moon) to the large (the population of the United States as seen below).
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Sir John Lavery’s Japanese Switzerland.
SS, What do you make of the work of John Shinnors?
The price of Shinnors’ work got inflated massively during the boom. I’m not hugely into abstract expressionism, alot of them just don’t do alot for me. There’s a good book about the art market called ‘Sold’ by John Barnes, Shinnors is in, think they take quotes from him while he’s supping in Gleeson’s The White House.
Interesting development here with the National Gallery getting a Lavery for their troubles. What a typically unimaginative Celtic Tiger collection from Quinlan, a Paul Henry, a Lavery, a Yeats, an O’Conor. Irish art by numbers. I hope the NG gets to keep the Harry Clarke stained glass they saved from Belcamp College too, Gerry Gannon & Nama have shown they’re incapable of protecting it. Should be gifted to the state, while the state needs to exorcise the shame of rejecting the masterpiece Geneva Windows over its perceived moral deficiency (there was a breast shown if memory serves).
[size=“5”]Nama to give a ‘Return from Market’ to gallery[/size]
SIMON CARSWELL, Finance Correspondent
THE NATIONAL Asset Management Agency has yet to turn a profit, but the National Gallery is to get a market return from the agency’s activities.
A painting by John Lavery entitled The Return from Market is to be donated to the gallery by Nama in return for the gallery storing the art collection of property financier Derek Quinlan, which Nama has seized and is in the process of selling. Mr Quinlan, who owes Nama some €230 million, handed over a dozen paintings – including the Lavery – after Christmas.
Nama has had the painting valued at €300,000. It changed hands publicly in 2001 when it was sold by Sotheby’s in London for £465,000. The painting, signed and dated 1884-1887, is considered one of Lavery’s better early works from a summer visit he made to an artists’ colony at Grez-sur-Loing in France. Lavery died in 1941. The gallery said yesterday it hoped to have the painting on public view by mid-June.
A spokesman for Nama said yesterday it had “decided as a goodwill gesture to the National Gallery and to the Irish people to offer the National Gallery one piece of art from the collection for free given the fact that they advised it was of importance to the heritage of Ireland.”
Other paintings in the collection include works by Andy Warhol, Jack B Yeats, Roderic O’Conor, and Paul Henry. The collection was estimated to be worth €5 million at one point, but is now said to be worth half that. The Yeats painting, Sailor Home From Sea , was bought through de Veres art auctions in 2005 for €105,000.
Nama said the remaining paintings had also been valued and would be offered for sale to the Office of Public Works, the National Gallery and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. If they do not buy them, they will be sold on the open market.
Many of the paintings used to hang in Mr Quinlan’s home on Shrewsbury Road, one of the most upmarket addresses in Dublin.
He left Ireland for Switzerland in 2009 before relocating to London in recent months. So far he has repaid about €140 million owed to Nama, but still has debts of €230 million.
Nama took enforcement action against Mr Quinlan last month over his debts, appointing a receiver to nine properties owned by him and his family. An accountant and former tax inspector, Mr Quinlan was one of the most active property purchasers during the boom
I see the yanks lost a minor Rembrandt drawing today. Well done lads.
SS,
where did your interest in all things art originate from?