Welcome to our weekly art collector Blog/Newsletter; For the Week of October 4th, 2010

At Art Collector Blog we list information about the visual artists whose works we own/sell, listed below.  The artists' news, reviews, auctions & auction results, latest market prices, exhibitions and related stories. We search the web daily.

On these pages

• Upcoming Auctions & Estimated pricing for our artists.

• Art for sale; on the web artists' prices & descriptions pages.

• Auction Results: June, 2010, July, 2010, August, 2010  September 2010, October 2010

• Upcoming Exhibitions that include our artists..

• Upcoming Expositions in Montreal, Toronto.

This week at Auctions:

• Sold at Christie's New York, September 21, 2010 : Henri Toulouse-Lautrec - 2 WORKS: Boeuf, chien, chat (recto);... Auguste Renoir - Portrait de Rosita Mauri and 2 other lots. Hughes Claude Pissarro - La cabane-gibon sur la vieille rade and 5 other lots.  Joan Miró - Sans titre. Salvador Dalí - Dessin pour Jacqueline Kennedy. Pierre Bonnard - Femme ŕ la baignoire. Theo Tobiasse - Une fille fait pour un bouquet. View auction results

• Sold at Bonhams Knightsbridge, September 22, 2010:- Salvador Dalí- Four Dreams of Paradise (Michler &... and 4 other lots. Rembrandt - Jean Lutma, Goldsmith (Bartsch 276) and 4 other lots. Louis Icart - Lady with a dog. Theo Tobiasse- Exodus. Pierre Bonnard - Le Verger (Bouvet 56). Pablo Picasso - Exposition Peinture Vallauris, Joueur de flute et Cavalier and 70 other lots. Henri Matisse - Untitled from Les Mirrors Profunds..., Le Chapeau Epinglé, third plate... and 4 other lots. Joan Miró - Maravillas con variaciones (Mourlot... and 6 other lots. Marc Chagall - Soleil aux Amoureux (Cramer 143) and 9 other lots. William Ward - The Romps; and The Truants View auction results

• Sold at Weschler's, September 25, 2010 Peter Max - Peace on Earth. Henri Matisse - Nu au Bracelet. View auction results

• Sold at auction: Peter Max - Untitled was auctioned at Sotheby's New York, September 27, 2010

• Sold at Doyle New York, September 28, 2010 Joan Miró - LA FEMME SUR LA LUNE, US$3,750

• Sold at 20th Century, Art & Editions, Bloomsbury Auctions, September 30th,2010; Henri Matisse - Verve Volume 8 and Monsieur Loyal, Joan Miró - Les Perseides and 4 other lots, Marc Chagall - L'Oiseau blesse d'une fleche and 2 other lots, Pablo Picasso - Le Picador II and 3 other lots, Salvador Dalí - The Seasons (4) and 11 other lots.   View auction results

• To Be sold at Nagel Auktionen, October 6, 2010:-  Paul Dubois - Le Chanteur florentin to

• Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse  - A royal Guardsman and A female nude .Pierre-Jules Mene  - Jeument normande et son poulain

• To Be Sold at Dorotheum, Salzburg, October 13, 2010: Pablo Picasso - "Femme nue et joucuse de flute" and 2 other lots.  Auguste Renoir  - "Sur la plage Berneval". Marc Chagall - "Heilige Nacht".  Salvador Dalí  - "Dionysos" and "Merkur" . Joan Miró  - "Komposition III" and "Komposition II" .

• To be sold at Waddington's, October 21, 2010  Auguste Renoir - SUR LE PLAGE A BERNEVAL and 2 other lots. Henri Matisse - SIRENES (2). Joan Miró - FROM LES SALTIMBANQUES and 5 other lots. Louis Icart - MOTHER BIDDING FAREWELL TO SON; SYMBOL... and TEASING (TAQUINERE). Marc Chagall - THE SKY (LE CIEL) and 9 other lots. Pablo Picasso - DANS L’ATELIER: DEAUX MODELES AVEC UNE... and 5 other lots. Salvador Dalí - MEMORIES OF SURREALISM (A FOLIO OF... and 2 other lots. Theo Tobiasse - DANSE DE MYRIAM and JUSQUI AU JOUR DU GRAND FLEUVE. View Details

• To be sold at Christie's King Street, October 26, 2010 Dimitri H. Chiparus - YAMBO and 3 other lots    View all lots

• To be sold at Heritage Auctions, October 27th, 2010 Marc Chagall Bouquet with Eiffel Tower & Sarah and Hagar, Salvador Dali Christ on the Cross

Our Artists' News:

• Pablo Picasso - mentioned in article titled Market Review / Apollo,  Picasso print sets auction record / CBC, Picasso ‘Mother and Child’: Sotheby’s or Christie’s? / Lindsay Pollock: Art Market Views, Visual Art That Will Make Your Life Better This Fall / The Stranger

• Auguste Renoir, Salvador Dalí - mentioned in article titled Better early than late... / Apollo

• Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso - mentioned in article titled Sotheby’s to Present Modern Masters: Impressionism and Early 20th Century Art / MutualArt

• Frederic Remington - mentioned in articles: Native American Works on Paper / Glasstire; Most Acclaimed Rembrandt Portrait On Rare Display / CBS

Art News, For Last Week:

• NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Laurie Anderson sees a new online trend in the art world that has galleries and museums in a tailspin: the power of the Web to distribute art.

• LONDON.- Frieze Art Fair, Frieze Art Fair takes place every October in Regent’s Park, London. The fair showcases new and established artists to an international audience. Frieze is launching a free iPhone and iPad app this autumn. The company’s first mobile app will be an invaluable tool for collectors, curators and general visitors to the 2010 Frieze Art Fair.

• TAMPA, FL:- The Tampa Museum of Art Beginning September 23, 2010 and running through January 2, 2011, the Tampa Museum of Art will present  The American Impressionists in the Garden

• September 23, 2010 - January 2, 2011; that explores the theme of the garden in American art and society.

• NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ announced that Seven of the top 10 lots in in its September 16 auction Scenes of the City: Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York 1900 – 2000 were by Martin Lewis, and all of them set auction records.

• New York:- Interesting article in the finance section of the WSJ. First-time buyers are often shocked by how much it costs to own art. The cost of managing an art collection can vary widely but could add up to between 1% and 5% of the value of the works annually – By TARA LOADER-WILKINSON

• AMSTERDAM (AP).- Now one of Rembrandt's most celebrated paintings is on public display until Nov. 29 at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.

• HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s announced a major selling exhibition to be held this autumn. the exhibition is to include artists active in Europe from the late 19th and early 20th century and who left an indelible impression on art history, including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso and Edgar Degas, among others.

• London:- Described last year by The Times as "one of the most enjoyable modern art fairs", Art London has always been eclectic and cosmopolitan. See Details

Our Artists:

Albert Carrier-Belleuse, Allen Gilbert, An He, Arthur Foster, Ben Kamihira, Benjamin Brown, Chiparus, Demetre, CHRISTOPHE FRATIN, CLARENCE GAGNON, CLEMENT HAUPERS, Elizabeth Spalding, Elizabeth Thompson, Erte, Frederic Remington, Gaugengigl, Ignaz Marcel, Gilles E. Gingras,Giunta, Joseph, HELMUT GRANSOW, Henri Matisse, Hughes Claude Pissarro, Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl, J W Good, Joan Mirň, Lelia Pissarro, Louis Icart, Louis Muhlstock, Lyonel Feininger, Marc Chagall, MARC-AURELE, FORTIN, NEUMANN, Ernest, Pablo Picasso, PAUL DUBOIS, Paul Neri, PENCKE, Peter Max, Pierre Bonnard, PIERRE-JULES MĘNE, Rembrandt van Rijn, Renoir, Rosa Bonheur, Salvador Dali, Stanley Cosgrove, TETSURO SAWADA, Theo Tobiasse, Willy Biehn

For full details, visit our Web Site Blog: http://www.zaidan.ca/Art_Gallery/Blog/Blog.htm