The Michael Werner Gallery has settled its lawsuit with Carnegie Museum trustee and collector James H. Rich. The lawsuit involved a painting by Peter Doig that was sold to Mr. Rich in 2004 and was supposed to have passed into the collection of the Carnegie Museum. “Due to a misunderstanding,” according to the latest Read More
The Michael Werner Gallery has filed a lawsuit against Carnegie Museum trustee and collector James H. Rich over a painting that was allegedly supposed to have passed into the museum’s possession but curiously — as its value increased by a factor of 12 — didn’t.
The painting in question, “Red Boat (Imaginary Boys)” (2004) by Read More
The group of young Germans who, in 1905, proudly called themselves Die Brücke (“The Bridge”) derived their name from Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, one of the radical philosophical tracts of the period. (The key passage reads: “What is great about a man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.”) Die Brücke was Read More
Poèmes d’Intérieur is the title of an exhibition of paintings by the American artist Walter Gay, currently at James Graham & Sons, but there’s only one of the canvases that can be said to embrace the lyrical: Matilda Gay Reclining on a Lit de Repos (Château de Fortoseau) (undated). It is in some ways representative Read More
The paintings of the French artist Eugène Leroy (1910-2000), currently the subject of an exhibition at Michael Werner, have to be among the loneliest works of art I’ve seen. I’m thinking, in part, of the solitary and barely discernible figures depicted in the canvases, of their compositional isolation as well as Leroy’s tendency to bury Read More
Thiebaud Reveals His Range: Cupcakes to Cityscapes
The painter Wayne Thiebaud, whose retrospective is currently at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has earned a niche-albeit an off-center one-in the history of 20th-century American art. His pictures of pies, pastries and parfaits gravitate toward the Day-Glo monolith that is Pop Art, yet remain distinctly Read More
