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Bite-Sized Art: History, News, Auctions, and More!
Welcome! If you’re new here, every week we send out a newsletter containing:
- One “Frame” of the week: history & opinions about a work of art
- One “Fame” of the week: sales from auctions or other big art news
- One “Find” of the week: a work we like, gallery opening, or surprise!
Frame of the Week
Astronomer (late 1650’s) by Gerrit Dou
This painting was painted during the Dutch Golden Age (1575-1675), a period known for its flourishing art scene.
The detail that Dou was able to fit into a canvas of this size is astounding considering this painting is a mere 21.6 × 8.3 inches!
Dou is known as a Fijnschilder, a group of Dutch Golden Age painters who strove to create as natural a reproduction of reality as possible in their meticulously executed, often small-scale works. - Wikipedia
Fame of the Week
Head of Woman (1960) by Francis Bacon
This Bacon was sold at a Sotheby’s auction for €6.4 million Euros on June 21st. This was the most expensive work sold at the auction.
This painting is of Mary Redgrave. Supposedly, she was unaware of him painting this - Bacon painted it fully from memory.
For more info on the auction, click here!
Find of the Week
Diver (2020-21) by Abbey Golden
On Thursday, June 29th from 7-8pm, Abbey Golden is giving an artist talk at her exhibition Golden Age of Fluidity from gallery Lauren Powell Projects in Los Angeles.
Water, for Abbey Golden, is a liminal space — a quantum field of transformative possibility.
Golden’s strengths in this series are her own fluidities — her empathy, which enables her to throw her feelings, her non-binary sexuality, and her egalitarianism into new floating bodies.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
That’s it for this week! If you know of any art news you’d like me to feature, artworks you’d like me to write about, or anything else, feel free to dm me on Instagram. And please share the newsletter too!
