Hundreds of donated art works will be sold on Saturday, September 3 in a brand new valley event called Art From the Attic.
Doors at the Invermere Community Hall (located at 1709 10th Street) will open at 9 a.m. sharp, and customers will be invited inside to view and purchase works of art including posters, prints, paintings and photographs until 4 p.m.
A huge variety of current art will be available, with original pieces by local artists such as Lynn Grillmair, June Thomsen and Carney Oudendag. Also on offer are prints by Canadian artists Robert Bateman, Albert Casson and David Veres.
A selection of vintage art will also be available including oil paintings for sale, watercolours, drawings and lithographs. There are even a couple of paintings on velvet. If you are looking for a particular subject for your collection or a Christmas gift, try browsing through the specialty items including wildlife photographs, needlework and movie posters.
Where possible, information about the artists will be provided. However, many works are by unknown artists.
“You may just find something that’s worth a lot of money,” says event manager Elinor Florence, “but more likely, you’ll find something that you just fall in love with.”
Art supplies will also be on sale including frames, mats, glass and canvasses suitable for recycling.
“We urge buyers to use their imaginations, as there are some very high-quality frames for sale,” says Florence.
All art will be pre-priced and organizers will not accept offers. A half-price sale will be held for the last hour of the day. If you spot something you love, you can take a chance that it will still be there later and return from 3 to 4 p.m. for an even better deal.
Please note that the organizers will not accept credit or debit cards, so bring your cash or personal cheques with you. Because the event is for charity, buyers will not have to pay any taxes.
Fifty percent of all proceeds will go towards the Invermere Health Care Auxiliary, which raises money for the local hospital. The other half will go to the Columbia Valley Arts Council, which supports the visual and performing arts in our community.
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Cohen’s Landscape Fetches Record $22.5 Million in Uneven Christie’s Sale
Christie’s International sold $156 million of Impressionist and modern art last night in New York, less than half the year-ago total, as collectors and advisers lamented a scarcity of masterpieces.
“This time around, the auction houses don’t have any great estates,” said Suzanne Gyorgy, head of Citi Private Bank’s art advisory service, before the sale. “They don’t have the iconic great work.”
The tally fell below Christie’s presale estimate of $162.3 million to $231.9 million, with 10 of the 57 lots failing to sell. Leonardo DiCaprio, sitting near the front of the room with a baseball cap obscuring his face, was among the onlookers as Claude Monet’s 1914-17 floral painting “Iris mauves” failed to sell.
Estimated to fetch as much as $20 million, it was the sale’s biggest casualty. DiCaprio declined to comment.
The top lot was a tie. A Maurice de Vlaminck landscape owned by hedge-fund manager Steve Cohen fetched a record $22.5 million, as did Monet’s 1891 painting of poplars, “Les Peupliers.”
The 1905 Vlaminck canvas, “Paysage de banlieue,” is a view of the small town of Chatou in the suburbs of Paris. Yet its palette of bright yellow and deep blue seems more Mediterranean.
“For Vlaminck it’s a pretty key composition,” said Michael Findlay, director at Acquavella Galleries in New York, before the sale. “It couldn’t be a better date, it couldn’t be better colors.”
The seller bought the work from Acquavella in 2002 and according to Christie’s, Acquavella bought it back last night.
In May 2010, Christie’s achieved records for Picasso and Jasper Johns while auctioning the estates of Frances Brody and Michael Crichton. Its Impressionist and modern sale was a $335.5 million spectacle starring a 1932 Picasso that went for $106.5 million.
“We are seeing a seismic shift,” Matthew Armstrong, director of Peter Freeman gallery in Soho, said by telephone yesterday afternoon. “The shift is toward more contemporary art because great Impressionist and modern artworks are simply harder to find. We don’t see the same level of quality as we did at the peak of the market.”
Pierre Bonnard’s 1936 canvas “Le Petit Dejeuner” fetched $6.2 million last night, just above its low estimate of $6 million. The painting was part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2009 show “Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors.”
‘Discerning Market’
Sotheby’s (BID) Impressionist and modern art sale tallied $170.5 million Tuesday, the smallest New York evening sale at the auction house in two years. A quarter of the lots failed to sell.
“It’s a discerning market,” said Findlay. It “has responded in an appropriate way to what it’s been offered.”
Sotheby’s fell $4.01, or 8 percent, to $46 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday, its biggest drop in 10 months. Rommel Dionisio, an analyst with Wedbush Securities, called Tuesday night’s sale results “mildly disappointing.”
“This time around, the auction houses don’t have any great estates,” said Suzanne Gyorgy, head of Citi Private Bank’s art advisory service, before the sale. “They don’t have the iconic great work.”
The tally fell below Christie’s presale estimate of $162.3 million to $231.9 million, with 10 of the 57 lots failing to sell. Leonardo DiCaprio, sitting near the front of the room with a baseball cap obscuring his face, was among the onlookers as Claude Monet’s 1914-17 floral painting “Iris mauves” failed to sell.
Estimated to fetch as much as $20 million, it was the sale’s biggest casualty. DiCaprio declined to comment.
The top lot was a tie. A Maurice de Vlaminck landscape owned by hedge-fund manager Steve Cohen fetched a record $22.5 million, as did Monet’s 1891 painting of poplars, “Les Peupliers.”
The 1905 Vlaminck canvas, “Paysage de banlieue,” is a view of the small town of Chatou in the suburbs of Paris. Yet its palette of bright yellow and deep blue seems more Mediterranean.
“For Vlaminck it’s a pretty key composition,” said Michael Findlay, director at Acquavella Galleries in New York, before the sale. “It couldn’t be a better date, it couldn’t be better colors.”
The seller bought the work from Acquavella in 2002 and according to Christie’s, Acquavella bought it back last night.
In May 2010, Christie’s achieved records for Picasso and Jasper Johns while auctioning the estates of Frances Brody and Michael Crichton. Its Impressionist and modern sale was a $335.5 million spectacle starring a 1932 Picasso that went for $106.5 million.
“We are seeing a seismic shift,” Matthew Armstrong, director of Peter Freeman gallery in Soho, said by telephone yesterday afternoon. “The shift is toward more contemporary art because great Impressionist and modern artworks are simply harder to find. We don’t see the same level of quality as we did at the peak of the market.”
Pierre Bonnard’s 1936 canvas “Le Petit Dejeuner” fetched $6.2 million last night, just above its low estimate of $6 million. The painting was part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2009 show “Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors.”
‘Discerning Market’
Sotheby’s (BID) Impressionist and modern art sale tallied $170.5 million Tuesday, the smallest New York evening sale at the auction house in two years. A quarter of the lots failed to sell.
“It’s a discerning market,” said Findlay. It “has responded in an appropriate way to what it’s been offered.”
Sotheby’s fell $4.01, or 8 percent, to $46 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday, its biggest drop in 10 months. Rommel Dionisio, an analyst with Wedbush Securities, called Tuesday night’s sale results “mildly disappointing.”
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