Observingarts: buying art - an introduction.

Buying art? An introduction to the art market
WEDNESDAY January 13th 17:00
A seminar with Marie Stokkenes Johansen on January 13. The seminar will focus on the structure of the international art market and where a novice art collector should begin. Learn about art collection as investment and what opportunities exist within the art market in Stavanger.

Read more: http://kunsthallstavanger.no/en/events/kj%C3%B8pe-kunst

Observingarts: 19th Century European Paintings 16 DECEMBER 2015, LONDON

Helene Schjerfbeck

1862 - 1946

FINNISH

LEMONS IN A BOWL

Sothebys' sale offers an array of prime works by European artists, from Scandinavia to Spain. Four outstanding works by Finnish modernist Helene Schjerfbeck define the Nordic offerings, led by Girl with Blonde Hair and Lemons in a Bowl. 

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Observingarts: British Art Lacks International Interest This Season

 It was tough at the top for the highest estimated lots in Christie’s Modern British Art sale last week when nine of the expected top 12 elicited little competition, selling at or below the lower end of their estimated prices. Read more

Observing arts: take a closer look at Lawren Stewart Harris Canada

Lawren Stewart Harris ~ Mountain and Glacier

Source: http://www.heffel.com/

"Lawren Stewart Harris (October 23, 1885 – January 29, 1970) was a Canadian painter born in Brantford, Ontario, who was one of the best known landscape painters of the Group of Seven, a group of artists who set out to create a distinctly Canadian art. He pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century". 
They turned out to be under influence of contemporary, Scandinavian artists. More bio here. 

Scandinavian influence: "Around 1915, he and his colleagues found resolve in the example of Scandinavian artists such as Gustav Fjestad, who combined an awareness of issues of verisimilitude with a strong sense of design". Examples of Fjestad paintings.

Source:http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/

The arctic nature is unike. It has been a rich source of inspiration - and still is. Light and colors different from anything else.
The link to Norwegian painter Nicolay Astrup falls into mind when observing Harris paintings. 

Observingarts: Anna-Eva Bergmann at Blomqvist, Oslo

Source : From Blomqvist auction catalogue: Modern and contemporary 2015

"L'or de Vivre", 1974

Folder with 9 + 2 woodcuts, 100/100 

All prints are numbered and signed: AE Bergman

Sheet 70x53 cm 

Print measuring 50x40 cm

Published by Galerie Im Erker, St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1974

Folder contains seven poems by Jean Proal and 11 illustrations by Anna-Eva Bergman.

More at Blomqvist, Oslo

Lot sold for NOK 18 000.- at auction. 

Observingarts: Edvard Munch's Rare Woodcut Leads Sotheby's Prints & Multiples Auction In London on 29 September 2015

The motif of Edvard Munch's The Girls on the Bridge has been widely recognised as one of the
artist's most celebrated, from its first unveiling in 1901. Munch went on to produce several versions of The Girls on the Bridge, creating between 1901 and 1935 a total of twelve known oil paintings and a number of variations in etching, lithograph and woodcut. A rare woodcut from 1918, the first documented impression using the colours dark blue, green and bright red-orange against teal-blue, leads Sotheby's biannual Prints & Multiples sale In London on 29 September 2015 with an estimate of £ 200 000 - 300 000. For more info: go to Sotheby's