IN MEMORIAM. The British pop painter and sculptor Antony Donaldson has died at age 86, reports the Times of London . Доналдсън е бил сред група художници, включително Бриджит Райли и Дейвид Хокни, представени в изложбата „Ново поколение“ Donaldson was among a group of artists, including Bridget Riley and David Hockney, featured in the 1964 New Generation show at Whitechapel Gallery, which helped usher in a new era of British pop art and culture. He made paintings of nudes and pin-ups that hovered between abstraction and pop imagery, even managing to sell an artwork to the Tate at the young age of 23. “At the beginning they were blatantly sourced from strip clubs, but after a while they became much more abstract,” Donaldson said of his paintings, which subverted common feminine ideals. But he may be most easily recognizable today for his monumental steel sculpture of Alfred Hitchcock, titled Master of Suspense (2003), located in Islington, north London. In his lifetime, Donaldson was featured in over 40 solo exhibitions, and once said: “I’m a painter. That’s what I do every day. It’s the only thing I’ve ever done, and I don’t know anything else.”
David Hockney famously loved his dachshunds. Now, a rare painting by the late artist depicting his cuddled-up, sleeping dog Stanley is headed to Christie’s, where it could fetch £2.5 million ($3.32 million) on October 14, reports The Guardian. Titled Dog Painting 17 (1995), the artwork is one of only six from a series about Hockney’s canine friends, and the first to head to auction. Tessa Lord, Christie’s head of postwar and contemporary art, explained that the artist started making dog paintings after losing friends to the AIDS pandemic and the death of his friend to cancer. “He felt such a loss of love; this was kind of a catharsis for him,” Lord said
Richard Manoogian, a top art collector, philanthropist, and businessman who spent his career at the home improvement and building company Masco Corporation, has died at age 90.
A red chalk drawing of a crouching child, held in a private Italian collection, has been reattributed to Edouard Manet, thanks to matching the artist’s characteristic style with a new UV analysis, which revealed a faded stamp from Manet’s studio.
Bonhams is selling the working “Hatfield” Apple-1 computer in San Francisco this week, offering an example of Apple’s first, rare surviving computers, also signed by company co-founder Steve Wozniak, along with a signed letter from Steve Jobs to the computer’s first owner, Fred Hatfield, all together estimated between $500,000 and $800,000.
The Châteaux de Versailles is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Sofia Coppola’s film, Marie Antoinette with a dedicated exhibition full of props and lavish costumes, curated in collaboration with the film director. [Le Monde]
