Welcome to our weekly art collector Blog/Newsletter; For the Week of October 18th, 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 & Lot descriptions.

• 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:

• To be sold at Dorotheum, October 21, 2010 Henri Toulouse-Lautrec - "Babylone d'Allemagne par Victor Joze" , Salvador Dali - ALMA DEL QUIJOTE

• To be sold at Christie's New York, October 26, 2010 Salvador Dalí - 25 WORKS: Les chevaux Daliniens,... and 3 other lots, Marc Chagall - 25 WORKS: Louis Aragon, Celui qui dit... and 27 other lots,  Pablo Picasso - Buste de Femme au Chapeau and 60 other lots, Joan Miró - 15 WORKS: Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or,... and 17 other lots, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec - Jane Avril and 2 other lots Henri Matisse - Marie-José en robe jaune and 7 other lots Auguste Renoir - Enfants jouant à la balle and 3 other lots, View all lots

• To be sold at Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, October 26, 2010: Salvador Dalí - Moi, aussi j'ai connu l'empereur, Rembrandt - The Circumcision: Small Plate and 9 other lots, Pierre Bonnard - La Revue Blanche, Pablo Picasso - Le peintre et son modèle and 40 other lots, Marc Chagall - Pl. 10, from Le Cirque and 20 other lots, Joan Miró - Joueur de Bugle aux Oiseaux and 29 other lots, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec - Divan Japonais and 8 other lots, Henri Matisse - Le repos du modèle , Auguste Renoir - Maternité, grande planche and 2 other lots,

• To be sold at Doyle New York, November 1, 2010 Auguste Renoir - BAIGNEUSE ASSISE, Henri Matisse - NU AU FAUTEUIL RAYE and TETE DE FEMME, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec - AU CONCERT and 4 other lots, Joan Miró - MAJA NEGRA and 8 other lots, Marc Chagall - QUAI DE BERCY and 13 other lots, Pablo Picasso - MINOTAURE AVEUGLE GUIDE PAR UNE... and 17 other lots, Salvador Dalí - 11 Works: THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL and 4 other lots, View all lots

• To be sold at Sotheby's New York, November 2, 2010 Auguste Renoir - La Couseuse,  Henri Matisse - DANSEUSE DANS LE FAUTEUIL, SOL EN DAMIER and 6 other lots, Joan Miró - Femmes, oiseaux and Untitled (Peinture IV/V), Marc Chagall - JOUR DE FÊTE (LE RABBIN AU CITRON),  Pablo Picasso - Homme et femme au bouquet and 4 other lots, Pierre Bonnard - NU ASSIS, JAMBE PLIÉE and SCָNE DE RUE ְ PARIS, Salvador Dalí - La Femme poisson,  Pablo Picasso - "Blumenstrauß" and 2 other lots, Salvador Dalí - "Merkur" and "Dionysos"  2010

• To be sold at De Vuyst, October 23, 2010 Francois Hippolyte Moreau - LA FORTUNE, Pablo Picasso - SALOMÉ  and CHOUETTE AUX PLUMES, Pierre-Jules Mene - JUMENT À L'ÉCURIE JOUANT AVEC UN CHIEN and GROUPE DE CHIENS AU REPOS (RACE..., Salvador Dalí - THE MENORAH and 5 other lots,  Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse - LA LISEUSE,

• To be sold at Leonard Joel, October 24, 2010 Joan Miró - Pygmée Sous la Lune, Louis Icart - Les Chatons (Spilled Milk),

• To be sold at Gray's Auctioneers, October 28, 2010  Louis Icart - Bonsai Trees and 8 other lots View all lots

• To be sold at John Moran Auctioneers, Inc., October 19, 2010 Benjamin Brown - Southern California Canyon  View all lots

• To be sold at Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles, November 9, 2010; Auguste Renoir - Femme en rouge lisant, La Danse à la Campagne, Marc Chagall - Le peintre, Salvador Dalí - Study for The Discovery of America by... and 2 other lots, Auguste Renoir - Femme nue assise

• To be sold at Rachel Davis Fine Arts, October 23, 2010 Auguste Renoir - Trois Esquisses de Maternite, Frederic Remington - Sergeant and Indian Head, Honoré Daumier - Comme On Devient (4) and Conversation d'Avocats; Les Avocats et..., Luigi Lucioni - Tree Tapestry and 2 other lots, Marc Chagall - Crucifixion, Pablo Picasso - Shakespeare, Rembrandt - The Sleeping Herdsman, Salvador Dalí - Plaza and 3 other lots, Theo Tobiasse - Femme Fleur avec Bicyclette,

• To be sold at Swann Auction Galleries, October 28, 2010;   View all lots Henri Matisse - Nu assis dans un Fauteuil au Décor... and 3 other lots, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec - La Troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine and 4 other lots, Honoré Daumier - Collection of 45 lithographs and Enfin! Nous avons obtenu la séparation..., Joan Miró - Le Vieil Irlandais and 10 other lots, Lyonel Feininger - Zug auf der Bröcke and 2 other lots, Marc Chagall - Le Jugement de Chloé, Pablo Picasso - Têtes and 10 other lots, Pierre Bonnard - La Rue, Rembrandt - The Omval and 97 other lots, Salvador Dalí - La Vida es Sueño and 5 other lots

• To be sold at Ketterer Kunst Munich, October 23, 2010 Theo Tobiasse - Paris fleur de bitume, Robert Indiana - Love, Auguste Renoir - Baigneuse assise, Joan Miró - From: Le lézard aux plumes d'or and 9 other lots, Lyonel Feininger - Six Manikins and 3 other lots, Marc Chagall - Aus: Sur la terre des dieux (Minnerme) and 8 other lots, Pablo Picasso - Spanish Pitcher and 24 other lots, Salvador Dalí - Venus à la girafe and 7 other lots,

• To be sold at Bonhams Knightsbridge, October 20, 2010 Peter Max - 'I Love the World' and 'Angel with Heart', Robert Indiana - 'The Book of Love II'

• To be sold at Shannon's, October 28, 2010 Ernest Albert - Snowy Winter Stream and Plum Colored Cloisonne, Pierre Bonnard - Study for Portrait de Marthe Bonnard,

• To be sold at Grogan & Company, October 23, 2010 Auguste Renoir - 2 WORKS: FEMME NUE COUCHEE ; SUR LA..., Henri Toulouse-Lautrec - 2 WORKS: YVETTE GUILBERT and CARNOT MALADE, Marc Chagall - LE BOUQUET NOIR ET BLEU and MERCURY AND THE WOOD CUTTER, PLATE 54:..., Pablo Picasso - YOUNG SPANISH PEASANT and 3 other lots, Salvador Dalí - LEO ; CANCER, from Signs of the Zodiac

• Sold at Dorotheum, Salzburg, October 13, 2010 Auguste Renoir - "Sur la plage Berneval", Pablo Picasso - "Blumenstrauß" and 2 other lots, Salvador Dalí - "Merkur" and "Dionysos"  2010 Joan Miró - "Komposition II" and "Komposition III", Marc Chagall - "Heilige Nacht"

• Sold at Seoul Auction, October 4, 2010, Auguste Renoir - Vase de Fleurs, Marc Chagall - Bestiaire et Musique,  Pablo Picasso - Le Modele dans L'atelier

• Sold at Stephan Welz & Co., Cape Town, October 6, 2010 Marc Chagall - THE PAINTER IN FRONT OF THE PICTURE

• Sold at Christie's South Kensington, October 5, 2010 William Ward - The Romps; and The Truants

• Sold at Wright, October 12, 2010 Pablo Picasso - vase

• Sold at Nagel Auktionen, October 7, 2010 Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse - A royal Guardsman and A female nude, Pierre-Jules Mene - Jeument normande et son poulain, Paul Dubois - Le Chanteur florentin,

Our Artists' News:

• Pablo Picasso - mentioned in: Rare Picasso exhibition to debut in US / Associated Press,  Rare Picasso works on display at SAM / Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Exhibition Examines Return to Classicism in European Art Between World Wars / ArtDaily, Iran loans Picasso painting to Zurich show / Tehran Times, artworks showcased in The Moderns at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland , October 20, 2010,  Picasso, Picasso and Picasso in Hong Kong / The Wall Street Journal, State of the Art: News & Market Round-Up (Oct. 4-11) / MutualArt,  State of the Art: News & Market Round-Up (Oct. 4-11) / MutualArt, State of the Art: Exhibition Openings (Oct. 11-18) / MutualArt, Picasso Sale Depends on Appraiser Seeing No Lactating Raspberry / Bloomberg, Major 20th-Century Private Sculpture Collection Goes to Chazen Museum of Art / ArtDaily, Hong Kong Picasso sales aim to tap China interest / AFP, Sotheby's Autumn Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art / MutualArt, The Problem With Chinese Works of Art / The Wall Street Journal,  Pablo Picasso: Your number one painter / CNN, Chagall Sets a Record in Seoul Auctions' Uneven $10.2 Million Hong Kong Sale / ARTINFO, Virginia Museum Announces Important Picasso Exhibition / ArtDaily,  Claims Conflict / ARTnews, Nanjing exhibitions span time and masters / Global Times, Picasso exhibition to debut in US / MSNBC, Treasures from Budapest, Royal Academy of Arts, review / Telegraph, By Way of Introduction: Artists, Ages, and Prices / The Huffington Post, Picasso fever comes to the Seattle Art Museum with show from the Musée National Picasso, Paris / The Seattle Times, Review: Picasso show lives up to the hype, and more / The Seattle Times, SAM snagged a show that is big for art lovers, could be big boost for museum / The Seattle Times, SAM's big Picasso show comes with a busy schedule of accompanying events / The Seattle Times, Value of art is in the eye of the appraiser, judge and insurance company / The Seattle Times, Evening Art: Picasso, Golub, Basquiat / Chicago Reader.

• Auguste Renoir - mentioned in: Images of a Capital: The Impressionists in Paris Opens at the Museum Folkwang in Essen / ArtDaily, The Phillips Collection Celebrates 90 Years of Creative Innovation with New Exhibitions / ArtDaily, Review: 'Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond' / San Francisco Chronicle.

• Rembrandt - mentioned in: State of the Art: News & Market Round-Up (Oct. 4-11) / MutualArt, What artists see in themselves / The Japan Times, Painting is by Rembrandt not his pupil, Dutch museum says / AFP, Unknown treasures from a Budapest museum / Financial Times.

• Honoré Daumier - mentioned: Francis Bacon Painting Shown Alongside Artist's Favorite Work / ArtDaily

• Marc Chagall - mentioned in article titled Hong Kong sales pass the $100 million mark, smashing numerous records / MutualArt, mentioned in article titled What artists see in themselves / The Japan Times, mentioned in article titled Zhang’s $6.7 Million Baby Boosts Sotheby’s Mixed Hong Kong Sale / Bloomberg, mentioned in article titled The Problem With Chinese Works of Art / The Wall Street Journal, mentioned in article titled A Preview of Hong Kong's Major Fall Modern and Contemporary Art Auctions / ARTINFO, mentioned in article titled Chagall Sets a Record in Seoul Auctions' Uneven $10.2 Million Hong Kong Sale / ARTINFO,

• Salvador Dalí - mentioned in article titled "Persistence of Memory" to Join Dalí Exhibition at the High / ArtDaily

• Henri Matisse - mentioned in article titled Sotheby's Autumn Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art / MutualArt, mentioned in article titled Matisse bronze could fetch $35 million at auction / MSNBC,

• Pierre Bonnard - mentioned in article titled Frenzy of International Bidding Pushes Total to $1.82 Million at John W. Coker Sale / ArtDaily

Art News, For Last Week:

• NEW YORK, NY.- autumn Day & Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York on 2 November 2010 will present a superb offering of works across the period. From an early painting by Eugène Boudin from 1868 to a Pablo Picasso canvas from the 1970s...

• London:- The second edition of the 50-dealer-strong Pavilion of Art & Design London drew an international and Local into the snooty hedge fund territory of Berkeley Square on Monday evening... By Judd Tully 

• Cairo:- Egypt's Deputy Culture Minister and Ten Others Sentenced to Three Years After Van Gogh Theft.

• London:– "People are collecting now in the way that kings and barons did in medieval times," Iwan Wirth says. "They might have a McCarthy, but also buy a Giacometti and some English silver." On the occasion of the opening of Hauser & Wirth's new Saville Row gallery in London, the Telegraph treats him to a profile full of rather snarky asides.  [Telegraph]

• LONDON (REUTERS).- (Thursday, October 14, 2010) U.S. collector and gallery owner Larry Gagosian has been named the art world's most powerful figure in the annual ArtReview ranking, dominated this year by established commercial galleries.

• HAMBURG.- In the fall of 2010, the Bucerius Kunst Forum is showing around 150 works by Marc Chagall (1887 – 1985).

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 Mirò, 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 MÊNE, Rembrandt van Rijn, Renoir, Rosa Bonheur, Salvador Dali, Stanley Cosgrove, TETSURO SAWADA, Theo Tobiasse, Willy Biehn

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