Your weekly 5 art world updates!
A lot went down this week in the weird and wild world of Art. Allow Gallerease to inform you about the most important art world updates.
Rare drawing by Leonardo da Vinci almost left The Netherlands
The world-class exposition ‘The Genius of Drawing - From Da Vinci to Rembrandt’ features 25 small drawings of great masters visible in Amsterdam’s Cromhout House.
The coal tycoon and nineteenth-century art collector Carel Joseph Fodor (1801-1860) purchased part of a collection of da Vinci's drawings at the auction of Koning Willem II in 1850.
Many of the paintings and drawings from that auction were sold to foreign countries, but Fodor happily bought an impressive selection of sixteenth and seventeenth century works by Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens, Van Dyck, Goltzius and Rembrandt.
Among these works is the drawing ‘Head of an Old Man’ by Leonardo Da Vinci. Fodor kept his art collection safe in the two smallest chambres of his house, one of which was situated beneath the stairs in his majestic Cromhouthuis.
Taco Dibbits, director of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, selected 25 portraits of Fodor's collection that now appears at The Cromhout House in Amsterdam from July 8th - October 15th, 2017.
Top: Leonardo DiCaprio. Bottom: Sanya Kantarovsky's, Man with Cactus (after Rembrandt), 2017, addresses climate change directly (courtesy of the artist and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation).
The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation will host its fourth annual fundraising auction
Our other favourite Leonardo. Money raised from the auction's sales will fund the DiCaprio Foundations mission to protect the earth from climate change and environmental crisis.
Last year’s auction raised some $45m, so that’s promising. The auction, which will be conducted by Simon de Pury, will take place on 26 July in St. Tropez.
The online preview kicked-off on July 20th and the online-only lots will become available as of July 27th. Art has been key to DiCaprio’s fundraising strategy. Among this years contributors are Camilo Restrepo, Sanya Kantarovsky and Darren Bader, with seven artists creating new commissions especially for thE auction.
Let's just hope DiCaprio won’t leave the gala in a hurry this time ... by private jet.
Salavador Dali (1904-1989)
Surreal Dali news
In an uncanny development to the fact that Salvador Dalí’s body was ordered by a Spanish court to be exhumed, following a lengthy paternity lawsuit, we got something to tell you.
After his remains were exhumed on July 20th, it appeared that Dali’s iconic moustache is still intact in it’s characteristic ‘ten past ten position’. The body of the great artist was embalmed and so kept in great condition, making it possible for the most famous moustache in history to remain intact - 28 years and counting.
The results of the DNA paternity test are expected to be announced in the beginning of September.
Westfries Museum Hoorn, Vriendengevel.
"We knew that sir Le Cocq d'Armandville was going to leave us ‘something’ but this enormous amount of money was a huge surprise" – Ad Geerdink
The Westfries Museum have been gifted roughly €1.7 million. The donation comes from the wealthy art collector Frans le Cocq d'Armandville, who recently passed away at the age of 94.
While reviewing the collector's last Will and Testament it appeared that the le Cocq named the Westfries Museum as his one and only heir. Le Cocq d'Armandville also donated one hundred art objects to the museum in Hoorn.
Brecht Vandenbroucke, MIMA Nocturne: 'Art is Comic'.
"Humour keeps you mentally healthy"
The MIMA museum located in the Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek opened the exhibition ‘Art is Comic’ this week. Comics art produced by the best humourists working today are invading the halls of the museum of contemporary and street art.
In this exhibition the terrorist attacks are present by their absence. Founder of the MIMA Raphaël Cruyt wanted to host an exhibition with art, which doesn’t take itself too seriously. Examples of '9th art' will be in the spotlight, and on display, at the MIMA until the end of this year.
Main image: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - Head of an old man.
