Time and Space

The Saint Louis Art Museum has acquired ‘Sunburst in the Riesengebirge’, a landscape painting by the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. The museum purchased the painting today at an auction for a total price of $2.75 million.

Galerie Marian Goodman is presenting ‘Folded Waves Vagues Pliees, an exhibition of works by Lawrence Weiner at the gallery and at the bookshop. Lawrence Weiner has been using language as the primary medium for his works since the late 1960s.

A contract signed by Karl Marx for the publication of the French version of ‘Capital’, his ground-breaking study of capitalism, sold at auction in Paris for a record $138,145, five times the expected price.

The Asia Week New York Association has announced that forty-eight international galleries and six auction houses that will participate in the 10th-anniversary edition of the ten-day festival Asia Week New York 2019 that will begin from March 13.

A new acquisition for the National Gallery of Canada has gone on permanent display. The Partie Carée , by renowned French artist James Tissot joins two other Tissot works in the collection, enriching the Gallery’s important holdings from the French Second Empire period.