With the exhibition Jean Prouvé The Poetics of the Technical Object, the Vitra Design Museum shows the most comprehensive retrospective to date devoted to the work of French design engineer and industrialist Jean Prouvé (1901-1984).

The auction of Contemporary Art will be held at Paris, Tue, 8 Dec 09, 7:00 PM & Wed, 9 Dec 09, 2:30 PM.
You can explore the on-line catalogue.

The MOMA exhibition is now in spain at the Museo Reina Sofía. The works of Mira Schendel (born in Switzerland in 1919 - died in São Paulo in 1988) and León Ferrari (born in Argentina in 1920) have found their principal visual source in language as both writing and gesture, that is, as both verbally intelligible and purely visible matter.

Rare and important works by Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian are among the highlights of Christie’s upcoming Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on November 3. Forty exceptional works will be offered, including paintings, drawings, and sculpture. The sale is expected to achieve in excess of $68 million.

This year’s fall auctions at Villa Grisebach Auktionen in Berlin start off on 26 November 2009 with over 180 lots for sale in Modern and Contemporary photography.

The four-day sale of the Collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, part II, at Theatre Marigny in Paris offered by Christie’s in association with Pierre Bergé & Associates auctioneers, realized in total € 8,990,213 / £ 7,978,814 / $ 13,449,358. A remarkable 98% of lots sold, and the sale was 98% sold by value. The buyer activity at the auction was (by lot) 85% Europe, 9% America, 5% Asia and 1.5% Middle East.
“I commend Pierre Berge’s generosity for once again supporting medical research and the fight against the …

Editions Ricordi is proud to invite all the fans of award winning fashion and celebrity photographer Ruven Afanador to experience his extraordinary art in an unique and playful way: by assembling a jigsaw puzzle, and thus retracing piece by piece the composition of a magnificent image starring top-model Heidi Klum.