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06/03/2023

Mit Software gegen Fälschungen. Our interview with FAZ.NET - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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23/06/2021

www.facture.art debuts! Over the past five years our team has built the biggest digital archive of Catalogues Raisonnés, auction records, museum inventory and gallery listing sites with close to 9 million items of artwork data. Welcome to a new age of art research.
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18/02/2021

Invite the light 🌤with:

Francis Bacon (Irish, 1909—1992)
No. 45-03
Man Standing, 1945
Oil on fibreboard, 39×28.2 in
Provenance: Robert Buhler
Piccadilly Gallery, London
Luca Scacchi Gracco, Milan
Private collection, Italy

Source: Harrison, Martin (ed.)(2016) Francis Bacon - Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2: 1929-1957. London: Heni Publishing

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13/02/2021

FLOWER POWER 🌺🌼🌸 with...

left to right:
Andy Warhol (American, 1928 — 1987)
No. II.67
II.64-73: FLOWERS 1970
Portfolio of ten screenprints on paper, 36 x 36" (91.4 x 91.4 cm).
Edition: 250 signed in ball-point pen and numbered with a rubber stamp on verso; some dated. There are 26 AP signed and lettered 4 - Z in bail-point pen on verso.
Printer: Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc., New York
Publisher: Factory Additions, New York

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Andy Warhol (American, 1928 — 1987)
No. II.64
II.64-73: FLOWERS 1970
Portfolio of ten screenprints on paper, 36 x 36" (91.4 x 91.4 cm).
Edition: 250 signed in ball-point pen and numbered with a rubber stamp on verso; some dated. There are 26 AP signed and lettered 4 - Z in bail-point pen on verso.
Printer: Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc., New York
Publisher: Factory Additions, New York

Notes:
Based on a photograph of hibiscus flowers by Patricia Caulfield in Modern Photography, June 1964. The orientation of the prints illustrated in the catalogue is based on that in Caulfield's photograph. The location of the signature and date, and hence the orientation, may vary in other examples. Forty unsigned proofs are marked on verso, for exhibition purposes only and dated 70. There are unauthorized prints, 36 x 36" (91.4 x 91.4 cm), in the same colors as the portfolio in an edition of 250 with a stamped number on verso. Stamped in black on verso, published by Sunday B. Morning and fill in your signature. Warhol made paintings of this subject. There is a wool and silk tapestry, 83 x 83" (210.8 x 210.8 cm), made in an edition of twenty in 1968. Prints exist which differ from the published edition.

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09/02/2021

Happy Birthday ! We cannot get enough of you... 💚

Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932)
CR: 725-1
Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting)
Year: 1990
Oil on canvas, 225 x 200 cm
Collection: The YAGEO Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan

This painting is part of a series of five works, two of which are currently in public collections: Abstract Painting [CR: 725-3] is in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, and Abstract Painting [CR: 725-5] is on permanent loan to the Kunstmuseum Bonn in Germany.
Exhibitions: Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art's Truly a World Treasure. Selected Works from the Yageo Foundation Collection; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; 31 March 2015 – 31 May 2015 Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art's Truly a World Treasure. Selected Works from the Yageo Foundation Collection; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; 20 December 2014 – 08 March 2015 Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art's Truly a World Treasure. Selected Works from the Yageo Foundation Collection; [...]
Source: Gerhard Richter online resource

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08/02/2021

When waiting time feels like a still life.... ⏳

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839—1906)
FWN 708
La Pendule noire
Year: 1867–1869
Oil on canvas
54.0×74.0 cm
Collection: Private collection

Provenance
Émile Zola, Médan;
Zola Collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Mar. 9–13, 1903, no. 114
Auguste Pellerin, Paris
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Galerie Miethke, Vienna (Apr. 11, 1911)
Baron Adolf Kohner, Budapest (Feb. or Mar. 1911)
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (1930)
Wildenstein Galleries, New York (by 1932)
Edward G. Robinson, Beverly Hills (Jan. 1937)
Knoedler Galleries, New York (Feb. 25, 1957)
Stavros Niarchos, Paris

This still life was painted in Zola's Paris apartment and given to the writer. The influence of Manet and PIssarro is suggested. The faience inkwell is shown on Zola's desk in his portrait by Manet (1868, Musée d'Orsay).
Provenance: Private collection
Exhibitions: 1907a Paris: Grand Palais, Rétrospective d'oeuvres de Cézanne (Salon d'Automne), no. 8, La Pendule, lent by Pellerin. 1909 Munich: Fruhjahrausstellung der Münchener Sezession, no. 21, Stilleben mit der Muschel, lent by Vollard. 1909b Berlin: Paul Cassirer, XII. Jahrgang, III. Ausstellung, no. 21 ("nature morte avec pendule, 18,000 frs"), Stilleben mit Uhr, lent by Vollard. 1911 Vienna: Galerie Miethke, Französische Meister, as Nature morte (pendule et coquille), 20,000 Fr net. 1913 Budapest: Ernst Museum, The Great French Masters of the XIXth Century, no. 76, lent by Kohner. 1919 Budapest: Mucsarnok, First Exhibition of Socialized Art Treasures, no. 21, lent by Kohner. 1932 London: Royal Academy of Arts, French Art, no. 441, ill, lent by Wildenstein & Co, NY. 1933b Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, Ill, A Century[...]
Source: Feilchenfeldt, Walter, Jayne Warman, and David Nash (2020) The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné.

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04/02/2021

“Don’t look away!”

Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932)
Betty (Various Motifs)
Year: 1991
Offset print on lightweight card with a layer of nitrocellulose varnish, mounted on plastic, framed and behind glass
Yellow, red, blue, and black offset print based on the painting Betty [CR: 663-5] from 1988, which shows Richter’s daughter.
Exhibitions: Der Britische Blick: Deutschland - Erinnerungen einer Nation (The British View: Germany - Memories of a Nation); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; 08 October 2016 – 09 January 2017 Erinnerungen einer Nation. Neil MacGregors Buch über Deutschland (Memories of a Nation. Neil MacGregor’s book on Germany); Residenzschloss, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany; 20 October 2015 – 17 January 2016 Exotica and 4 other Cases of the Self; me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany; 17 September 2014 – 22 February 2015 Gerhard Richter – Die Kunst im Plural (Gerhard Richter – Art in the Plural); K20 Grabbeplatz, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; 15 February 2014 – 09 March 2014 Gerhard Richter: Atlas – Mikromega; Kunstbau München, Munich, Germany; 23 October 2013 – 09 February 2014 Lifelike; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA; 23 June 2013 – 22 September 2013 Gerhard Richter: Sinopsis (Gerhard Richter: Survey); Centro de las Artes, San Luis Potosí, Mexico; 02 May 2013 – 23 June 2013 Lifelike; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA; 24 February 2013 – 26 May 2013 Gerhard Richter: Edizioni 1965–2012 dalla Collezione Olbricht (Gerhard Richter: Editions from the Olbricht Collection 1965–2012); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; 31 January 2013 – 21 April 2013 Richter and Polke, Works on Paper from the Kunstmuseen Krefeld; RHA Galleries, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland; 11 January 2013 – 24 March 2013 Gerhard Richter. Sinopsis (Gerhard Richter: Survey); [...]
Source: Gerhard Richter online resource.

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29/01/2021

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the prettiest in this hall?” ✨

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923—1997)
Mirror #2 (oval 60" x 48")
Year: 1971
Oil and Magna on canvas
Provenance: Andy Warhol, New York
Source: Roy Lichtenstein online resource.

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28/01/2021

met Surrealist photographer Dora Maar in the winter of 1935–36 and the two were lovers until the early 1940s, through the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of World War II. In addition to her involvement in Surrealist circles, Maar was active in leftist political causes. Her volatile personality was well–known; Picasso called her his "weeping woman."

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Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881—1973)
No. 654 (definitif)
TÊTE DE FEMME N° 6. PORTRAIT DE DORA MAAR
1939 (entre janvier et juin, Paris). Aquatinte et grattoir en quatre couleurs sur quatre cuivres. 298 x 237 mm au coup de planche (Bl. 1338).

Dans l’état définitif, la planche du Rose est tirée la première (en dessous), puis celle du Vert, puis celle du Bleu, puis celle du Noir.
Toutes les épreuves ont été tirées par Lacourière, à l’exception des épreuves «cuivre rayé». Les planches correspondant à chaque couleur seront étudiées dans l’ordre de leur passage sur l’épreuve définitive. L’épreuve de report n’ayant pas subsisté, il est impossible d’établir un ordre chronologique.

A. Décomposition des couleurs

Premier cuivre

Le Rose-brun.

La masse du visage est couverte d’aquatinte, probablement au vernis. Les yeux, les narines, la bouche sont réservés en blanc. Les pommettes, les oreilles, l’arête du nez, le tour du menton, des yeux, de la bouche, sont plus foncés (morsure à la main).

Après l’aciérage de la planche:

1 épreuve sur vergé de Montval filigrane Picasso (REPRODUIT).

Voir aussi B.a. B.b et B.c.

B, C et D: voir plus bas.

E. Le cuivre est rayé (1979).
3 épreuves tirées en noir par Crommelynck sur vélin de Rives (conservées par Crommelynck).

Le cuivre, rayé, existe.

Deuxième cuivre

Le Vert.

Les cheveux, le contour du visage, les pupilles, les [...]
Source: Baer (1985) Picasso peintre-graveur. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et des monotypes, 1935-1945. Suite aux catalogues de Bernhard Geiser: Volume III. Bern: Editions Kornfeld

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26/01/2021

Who brings some colour in this hallway?

Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901 — 1985)
No. 1270
Les passants
lithographie en 4 couleurs
septembre 1982
67 x 100 cm

57 épreuves sur Arches de 80 x 115 cm réparties comme suit :
• 50 épreuves numérotées de 1 à 50 ;
• 7 épreuves marquées H.C. numérotées de I à VIl.
Pace Editions, New York
C.R. fascicule ###V, n° 208

Source: Webel, Sophie (1991) L'oeuvre gravé et les livres illustrés par Jean Dubuffet: catalogue raisonné, vol. 2. Paris: Baudoin-Lebon

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17/01/2021

Art in the bathroom? Oh hell yes! 🖼 🛁 with:

Andy Warhol (American, 1928 — 1987)
No. II.72
II.64-73: FLOWERS 1970
Portfolio of ten screenprints on paper, 36 x 36" (91.4 x 91.4 cm).
Edition: 250 signed in ball-point pen and numbered with a rubber stamp on verso; some dated. There are 26 AP signed and lettered 4 - Z in bail-point pen on verso.
Printer: Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc., New York
Publisher: Factory Additions, New York
Notes:
Based on a photograph of hibiscus flowers by Patricia Caulfield in Modern Photography, June 1964. The orientation of the prints illustrated in the catalogue is based on that in Caulfield's photograph. The location of the signature and date, and hence the orientation, may vary in other examples. Forty unsigned proofs are marked on verso, for exhibition purposes only and dated 70. There are unauthorized prints, 36 x 36" (91.4 x 91.4 cm), in the same colors as the portfolio in an edition of 250 with a stamped number on verso. Stamped in black on verso, published by Sunday B. Morning and fill in your signature. Warhol made paintings of this subject. There is a wool and silk tapestry, 83 x 83" (210.8 x 210.8 cm), made in an edition of twenty in 1968. Prints exist which differ from the published edition.

Source: Feldman; Schellmann (ed.) (2003) Andy Warhol prints, a catalogue r aisonné, 1962-1987 4th ed., New York: Distributed Art Publishers; New York: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc.; New York: Edition Schellmann

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12/01/2021

The how-to guide for improvising an mobile:

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923—1997)
Nr. 256
Suspended Mobile
1990 (published 1991)
Screen Print on polyester monofilament fabric, stretched over a rectangular frame with concave interior
DIMENSIONS 50¾ x 75¾ x 4 (128.9 x 192.4 x 10.2)
INSCRIPTIONS Numbered, signed (rf Lichtenstein), and dated ('90) on verso of frame in paint marker, lower right, Stamped on verso of frame, lower right, below signature: (Saff Tech Arts stamp and copyright symbol). Workshop number, stamped on verso, to right of Saff Tech Arts stamp: (RL90-002). Stamped on verso, beneath workshop number: (1990 Roy Lichtenstein / Saff Tech Arts)
EDITION 19; plus 1 BAT, 2 PP, 1 Presentation Proof, 2 STA, 1 A, 4 AP
PUBLISHER Saff Tech Arts, Oxford, Maryland
PRINTER Saff Tech Arts, Oxford, Maryland
COLLABORATION Donald Saff (project supervision); Patrick Foy and Tom Pruitt (project supervision, processing, proofing, edition printing, and frame fabrication); Tim Amory (edition printing and production assistance); Steve Federation (frame fabrication and production assistance); Nick Conroy, Ken Elliott, and Steve Shannon (frame fabrication); George Holzer (production assistance)
RUNS 4 colors, in 4 runs:
1 black (pigmented silicone; with multiple applications of ink)
2 ultramarine blue (magna; with multiple applications of ink)
3 cadmium yellow pale (magna; with multiple applications of ink)
4 cadmium red deep (magna; with multiple applications of ink)
COMMENTS Work on this bas-relief and the Water Lilies series (cat, nos. 261-66) began at Saff Tech Arts in June 1990. As noted on the workshop documentation sheet, the rectangular frame is made of epoxy resin, biaxial fiberglass, and expanded polystyrene foam formed over a mold. After fabrication, the frame was cut laterally from the sides
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Corlett, Mary Lee (2002) The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948-1997. New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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