Abstract Art

By: Jonathan Lopez New York—In 1986 Art & Antiques executive editor Jeffrey Schaire asked Andrew Wyeth’s wife, Betsy, why her husband had depicted an attractive female neighbor, naked and clothed, in more than 240 paintings and drawings—a sprawling and mostly secret oeuvre, 15 years in the making. She replied slowly with a provocative one-word answer:…

By: Christy Grosz New York—To celebrate the organization’s three decades of promoting the connoisseurship and collecting of photography, the Association of International Photography Art Dealers will unveil a new program simply titled Innovation during its annual Photography Show, which takes place March 26–29 in New York at the Park Avenue Armory. AIPAD president Stephen Bulger,…

By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley New York—Haughton International Fairs has canceled the 2009 International Asian Art Fair, which had been scheduled for March 11–15 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. The London-based fair organizer posted a short announcement on its website in mid-December that blamed “the present global economic situation” for the move and…

By: Christy Grosz New York—When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940, a prominent Jewish art dealer fled Amsterdam, leaving behind his stock of nearly 1,200 Old Master paintings. Jacques Goudstikker hoped to return to his gallery one day, but the 42-year-old died falling down a flight of stairs aboard a freighter that was carrying…

By: Sheila Gibson Stoodley Joan Mirviss stood out from the day she started her business in 1977—she sold Japanese prints and paintings when her peers offered either one or the other. Since she added contemporary Japanese ceramics in 1984, the artworks have grown to account for half her receipts. In the wake of the demise…