One of Picasso’s Finest Portraits Will Be Offered for Sale in Las Vegas This October
The painting, 'Femme au béret rouge-orange,' depicts Picasso's lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter.
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High Camp, and High Art, at the Frick Through Sept. 6
In the early 20th century, academic painters like Leighton descended into oblivion, as French-style avant-gardism, from post-impressionism through to cubism, ascended to stage center in the capitals of Europe. However, with the return to figuration in the form of pop art in the 1960s, and the concurrent rise of that highly contagious sensibility that Susan Sontag so memorably identified as “camp,” academic art began its long return to popularity.
Frick to Hang ‘Flaming June,’ Victorian-Era Masterpiece, on Loan From Puerto Rico
The Frick Collection will put Frederic Lord Leighton's Flaming June, considered by some to be the artist's masterpiece, on view this summer. It is the first time the painting will be shown in New York. The vivid, almost neon, 47-inch-square oil on canvas is thought to deal with issues of sleep, death and sensuality.
