Marcus Callum: “Portrait of the artist as a young man”

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Theo van Rysselberghe:  Self Portrait with Palette (1916) via The Athenaeum

Before Claes Oldenburg’s “Floor Burger” (1962) arrives at MoMA for a survey of the sculptor’s work from the 1960s and ’70s, it is undergoing an extensive restoration at its home, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).

AGO conservator Sherry Phillips works painstakingly to consolidate the flaking paint layers.

Bonnard and Vuillard on a boat on Lake Como or Garda in Italy, 1899. Photo: Roussel Ker Xavier. Paris, Musée d’Orsay

Morris Graves - self-portrait, c. 1933

Ed Ruscha named to this years Times’ list of the world’s 100 most influential people.

Egon Schiele’s diary to be published in a new book.  16-year-old Schiele wrote about (and sketched) his first love: “You rosy, enchanting creature,/ Seeing you makes my heart ache./…In a short line – I love you.”  [Guardian]

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Wassily Kandinsky was born (1866) in Moscow  and studied law at the university there. At age 30 he gave up the law and moved to Munich to study art.

Juan Gris, Portrait of Pablo Picasso, 1912.  

“Calling himself Juan Gris (pronounced Whahn  greece), José Victoriano González moved from Madrid to Paris in 1906 and took up residence in the same building as fellow Spaniard Pablo Picasso.  The painting is characteristic of Gris’s unique variant of Cubism, with a palette of cool blues, browns and grays and carefully delineated planes whose edges seem almost luminous.”   AIC

Andy Warhol’s once home and studio is on the market. $5.8 million for a bit of Pop art history. The townhouse at 1342 Lexington Avenue, NYC served as his home and studio during his most important years, between 1959 and 1974.  Artinfo

Matisse and model by George Brassai