More than $850 million — that's the estimated value of the legendary Mona Lisa painting. Nevertheless, one of the most famous paintings and an iconic Renaissance art piece is not for sale. Under French heritage law, an artwork declared priceless is prohibited from being bought or sold. Although you might not be able to take the painting home, you can still take a glimpse at the iconic smiling lady in the Louvre for less than the cost of a meal at Mickey D's.
In an exclusive, see the early self-portraits the MoMA exhibition didn’t show. By Blake Gopnik.
The New York artist has made a career out of her self-portraits that act as highly exaggerated and oft times grotesque character studies
Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and President Marc Payot
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The New York artist has made a career out of her self-portraits that act as highly exaggerated and oft times grotesque character studies
1907 Edvard Munch Self-Portrait at 53 Am Strom in Warnemünde Munch Museum, Oslo The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is regarded as a pioneer in the Expressionist movement in modern painting. At an early stage Munch was : in Germany and central Europe as one of the creators of a new epoch. Munch’s art from the 1890s is the most well known, but his later work is steadily attracting greater attention. For full biographical notes on Munch see Edvard Munch part 1- introduction. For earlier works see parts 2-9 also. This is part 10 of a 20–part series of posts on the works of Edvard Munch: 1899 Man Bathing woodcut from two blocks on grey-ivory card 44.4 x 44.4 cm ( image ) Art Institute of Chicago, IL 1899 Man Bathing woodcut from two blocks on grey-ivory card 44.4 x 44.4 cm ( image ) 1899 Melancholy, Laura oil on canvas 110 x 126 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1911 Melancholy oil on canvas 120 x 125 cm Stenersenmuseet, Oslo 1899 Munch's House and Studio in Åsgårdstrand oil on canvas 31.5 x 40.5 cm Private Collection 1899 Munch's House in Åsgårdstrand oil on cardboard 49 x 60 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1899 On the Waves of Love lithograph 31.1 x 41.6 cm 1899 On the Waves of Love lithograph 31.1 x 41.6 cm 1899 Summer Night in Studenterlunden oil on canvas 101 x 91 cm Private Collection 1899 The Fat Harlot woodcut 1899 The Garden oil on canvas 64.5 x 95.5 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1899 Winter in the Woods, Nordstrand oil on cardboard 60.5 x 90 cm National Art Museum, Oslo 1899 Winter oil and tempera on canvas 65 x 79.5 cm Private Collection 1899 Woman's Head against the Shore woodcut from two blocks on ivory Japanese paper 46.5 x 41.1 cm ( image ) 1899-1900 Eye in Eye oil on canvas 136 x 110 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1899-1900 Fertility oil on canvas 120 x 140 cm Private Collection 1902 Fertility II 128 x 152 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1899-1900 Red and White oil on canvas 93.5 x 129.5 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1899-1900 The Dance of Life oil on canvas 125.7 x 190.5 cm National Gallery, Oslo 1899-1900 The Dance on the Beach oil on canvas 99 x 96 cm Narodni Muzej, Belgrade, Serbia 1900 Golgotha oil on canvas 80 x 120 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1900 Harpie lithograph 36.5 x 32 cm ( image ) The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo 1900 Landscape with Train near Togrok ( Train Smoke ) oil on canvas 84 x 109 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1900 View from Nordstrand oil on cardboard 81 x 65 cm Private Collection 1900-01 New Snow oil on canvas 72 x 82 cm Munch Museum, Norway 1900-01 Starry Night oil on canvas 59.5 x 74 cm Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany 1900-01 The Island oil on panel 99 x 108 cm Private Collection 1900-01 View from Nordstrand oil on canvas 80.5 x 65 cm Private Collection 1900-01 View from Nordstrand oil on panel 72.8 x 100.4 cm Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany 1900-01 White Night oil on canvas 115.5 x 111 cm National Art Museum, Oslo 1900-01 Winter at Nordstrand oil on cardboard 64.5 x 80 cm Private Collection 1900-01 Winter Forest oil on cardboard 60.5 x 90 cm Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany 1900-01 Winter Night oil on canvas 81 x 121 cm Kunsthaus, Zurich 1900-01 Winter Night oil on cardboard 73 x 49.5 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1900-05 Under the Stars oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1901 Birch in the Snow oil on cardboard 60.5 x 68 cm Private Collection 1901 Consul Christen Sandberg oil on canvas 215 x 147 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1901 Landscape with a Road oil on cardboard 50 x 80 cm Private Collection 1901 Night Café etching 15.1 x 20 cm ( plate ) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1901 Spring Landscape with Snow Plough oil on canvas 61 x 82.5 cm Private Collection 1901 Street in Asgardstrand oil on canvas 88.5 x 114 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland 1901 Street in Åsgårdstrand oil on canvas 68 x 90 cm Private Collection 1901 The Book Family oil on canvas 197 x 122 cm Thielska Galleriet, Sweden 1901 White Night oil on canvas 115.5 x 110.5 cm National Art Gallery, Oslo 1901 Wilhelm le Fèvre Grimsgaard oil on canvas 75.5 x 64.2 cm Private Collection 1901-02 Albert Kollmann and Sten Drewsen oil on canvas 59 x 73.5 cm Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany 1901-02 Albert Kollmann oil on canvas 81.5 x 66 cm Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland 1901-02 Children in the Forest oil and casein on canvas 90 x 100 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1901-02 Forest on the Way to Borre oil on canvas 36.5 x 45 cm Private Collection 1901-02 Forest on the Way to Borre oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm Private Collection 1901-02 The Fairytale Forest oil on canvas 79 x 106.5 cm National Art Museum, Oslo 1901-02 Two Children on Their Way to the Fairytale Forest oil and casein on canvas 84 x 121 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1901 - 1927 The Girls on the Bridge: 1901 Girls on a Bridge oil on canvas 84 x 129.5 cm Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany 1901 The Girls on the Bridge oil on canvas 136 x 125.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Oslo 1902 Girls on the Bridge oil on canvas 100 x 102 cm Private Collection 1902 The Girls on the Bridge oil on canvas 83 x 73 cm Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow 1902 Women on the Bridge oil on canvas 184 x 205 cm Bergen Art Museum 1902-03 Kiøsterudgärden oil on canvas 100 x 95 cm Private Collection 1903 The Ladies on the Bridge oil on canvas 203 x 230 cm Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm, Sweden 1903 Three Girls on the Jetty oil on canvas 91.5 x 78.7 cm Private Collection 1904-07 Women on the Bridge oil on canvas 142 x 158 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 1905 The Girls on the Bridge oil on canvas 126 x 126 cm Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Germany 1912-13 Girls on the Jetty lithograph in black with hand colouring on tan wove paper Private Collection 1918-20 The Girls on the Bridge woodcut and lithograph 49.7 x 43.3 cm ( image ) 1927 Girls on the Bridge oil on canvas 100 x 90 cm Munch Museum, Olso
Taken from Phaidon's new release, "500 Self Portraits," here are 27 surprising self-portraits from some of the most renowned artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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The world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramović has been strung up, cut, screamed at and had an arrow pointed directly at her heart. In anticipation of her new show, 512 Hours, at London's Serpentine gallery, here are her greatest hits
Louise Bourgeois is best known for her spider sculptures, including Maman for Tate Modern. This exhibition of her later works is akin to a self-portrait, a web of contradictions and ambiguities, says Anna McNay
During her seventy-year career, Louise Bourgeois became an artist of wide influence and art-historical importance. Her charged work, a distinctive mix of abstraction and figuration, delves into childhood memories and the emotional struggles of everyday life. Working… more
Cells, spiders, human figures and womb-like sculptures ... let Jonathan Jones guide you through the remarkable work of this most inventive of artists
Barbara KrugerMay 29–July 31, 2003London
***** www.walkerart.org This posting for Black History month 2013 will be to highlight and honour the artwork of the contemporary American artist Kara Walker, as well to be included in the "RCJ Music/ Art's Honour Roll Society". Recently Ms. Walker's art got quite a bit of criticism when a particular piece with some sexual theme in it, was put up in a Newark, NJ Library, and of course, this is something that any artist will get from time to time from folk's who get their panties/ knickers in a bind and get too swallowed up into the politpop correctness culture we have. I alwayz looked at art as for what it is, the perception, expression, and so forth of the artist, their view, etc, but ALL art's get this criticism, whether it be literature, painting's/ photography, music/ film, etc. ... and Kara's art is distinctively "Kara's" without a doubt, with it's own flavour rooted deeply in it. Historically though, is not Kara's "art" an accurate enough depiction of the condition? ... perhap's they're looking for somethin a lil more fictional, some added fantasy of some sort, as far as some of the critic's are concerned, eh? But for all those folk's (particularly American's) with a tad too much starch in their britches who love to BMB (bitch, moan, and bellyache) over art ... there is certainly a whole buffet of piece's that will sure make ya'll quiver of her's {: ) But really some beautiful art piece's here, and Thank You Ms. Walker ... wishing you of course, the best of the best, indeed! ... Enjoy! I also want to dedicate this posting of course to Mr. Harmon Loft .... Kara Walker on her "uneasy relationship" with her imagination ... Thanx to SFMOMA ***** ART IN AMERICA: Kara Walker Artwork Censored at Newark Library .... ***** NEWYORKDAILYNEWS.COM: Large drawing in Newark Library depicting troubling images of recism is revealed again to the public after critics back down .... **************************************************************************** ***** "RCJ MUSIC/ ART'S HONOUR ROLL SOCIETY" A THRU M ***** "RCJ MUSIC/ ART'S HONOUR ROLL SOCIETY" N THRU Z **************************************************************************** Kara Walker at Sikkema Jenkins, NYC (May 2011) ... Thanx to MARCELO FLAIBANI **************************************************************************** ***** PD/ RCJ: "FOR HARMON LOFT" PART'S 5 THRU 1 ***** PD/ RCJ: "BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2013" PART 2 **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** ***** RANCH CHIMP JOURNAL "WELCOME" POST ****************************************************************************
Can the enduring presence of such monuments among us still have the power to reinforce deep-rooted prejudices, by the very fact that they have simply not gone away?
Cindy ShermanClownsJanuary 20–February 26, 2005Munich
