It is unlikely to find in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s oeuvre a work that resembles this still life and it is almost impossible to determine its subject: is it a vase? A lamp? A piece of fruit? A reproduction of this symmetrical composition that recalls Antique Roman frescos was included in Marc Edler and Albert André’s L’Atelier […]
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Roberta Bernstein on “Jasper Johns: Redo an Eye” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
February 19, 2019
Acclaimed author Roberta Bernstein discussed her definitive monograph on Jasper Johns, as well as her experiences working with him on the catalogue raisonné of painting and sculpture.
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Authenticity Litigation: Challenges, Pitfalls, and New Alternatives
February 7, 2019
The Wildenstein Plattner Institute hosted an introductory panel on the Court of Arbitration for Art. The evening’s event featured presentations on the legal considerations of fine art authentication and the options available for those involved in this practice.
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The WPI is pleased to announce the launch of the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné. Working in close collaboration with the Estate of the artist, the WPI will author a dynamic online publication that will link to digitized material from the artist’s archives. In addition to the wealth of archival documentation at the Wesselmann studio, the
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Roberta Bernstein, Jasper Johns’s Painting and Drawing: A Dialogue
January 23, 2019
Roberta Bernstein examined selected works from The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns at the Menil Drawing Institute and discussed how they engage with related paintings. Bernstein also illustrated how Johns’s art blurs the boundaries between painting and drawing and presents factors important to decisions about where certain works reside vis-à-vis recently published Jasper Johns catalogue raisonné.
In 1908 in Paris, two one-man exhibitions celebrated the work of Kees Van Dongen: one at Galeries Kahnweiler in March, the other at MM. Bernheim Jeune in November/December. At MM. Bernheim-Jeune, Van Dongen showed 89 works: 64 paintings, which appeared dated from 1892 to 1902 and by chronological order in the catalogue, 11 watercolors, 1
