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Second digital edition of Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum now available

The latest edition of the Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum is now available. The Art Bulletin is an academic journal in digital format, published annually in English. Since 2014 it has been an entirely digital publication, available to download and read free of charge either in full or as individual articles.

Download here: www.nationalmuseum.se/artbulletin21eng

Ander Zorn under the hammer at Sotheby's

Anders Zorn

A Portrait of the daughters of Ramon Subercaseaux,

Source: Sotheby's

Sotheby’s November 3rd auction of 19th Century European Art in New York include Anders Zorn’s masterpiece A Portrait of the daughters of Ramon Subercaseaux, as well as an important group of drawings by Jean François Millet, including a study for his most celebrated painting, The Gleaners. Major re-discoveries are also featured in the sale, such as Jean Leon Gérôme’s Prière dans la mosque, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier’s Les Deux Amis, and William Bouguereau’s Young Girl with Grapes, alongside major paintings by John Frederick Herring Sr., Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Alfred Stevens, Julius Leblanc Stewart, Gustave Moreau and Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema. More at Sotheby's

ART COLLECTIONS: Magnificent Ai Weiwei work at ARKEN, Denmark

Ai Weiwei, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, 2010. 

Foto: Anders Sune Berg

Twelve golden animal heads loaded with weighty, contrasting symbolism have arrived at ARKEN. Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (2010), by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, is on longterm deposit from the Frahm Collection. So far, millions of people around the world have seen Ai Weiwei’s reinterpretations of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac that once adorned a legendary fountain at the Yuanming Yuan palace in Beijing and were reserved for the eyes of the privileged few. 

More at Arken