$26.9 M. Chardin Smashes Records in Paris—and More Art News – RisePEI

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THE FRUITS OF HIS LABOR. Data fell on the Artcurial public sale home in Paris on Wednesday, with a 1761 Jean-Siméon Chardin nonetheless life, The Basket of Wild Strawberries, going for €24.4 million (about $26.9 million). That’s the most ever paid for a piece by the artist at public sale, in addition to probably the most ever paid for a French Previous Grasp on the block, the Artwork Newspaper studies. (The earlier prime mark for the latter was the £17.1 million that was spent on a Fragonard at Bonhams in 2013.) The client of the Chardin, which had carried a €15 million excessive estimate, was New York seller Adam Williams, in line with TAN. Remarkably, it’s Chardin’s solely recognized depiction of strawberries.

ARTIST UPDATES. Lebohang Kganye, whose work will seem in South Africa’s Venice Biennale pavilion, was profiled by CNN. Christine Solar Kim, recent off unveiling a massive mural on the Queens Museum in New York (“TIME OWES ME REST AGAIN,” it reads), chatted with the Guardian. Camille Norment, who has a solo present at Dia Chelsea in Manhattan, spoke with Cultured. And Michelle Stuart, who has an exhibition just a few blocks away, at Galerie Lelong and Co., did a Q&A with Artnet Information, She mentioned bringing seeds from far-flung locales again to her studio to make work. “New York doesn’t give a shit,” Stuart mentioned. “You possibly can carry virtually something into New York.”

The Digest

Sona Karakashian Johnston, a Baltimore Museum of Artwork curator for 4 a long time, between 1970 and 2010, has died at 83. An professional on the American Impressionist artist Theodore Robinson, Johnston organized quite a few exhibits of American and French artwork, ending her profession as senior curator of portray and sculpture. [The Baltimore Sun]

Damien Hirst obtained £1.3 million (about $1.71 million) in authorities furlough support throughout 2020, in line with paperwork filed by his firm. Throughout that interval, 63 individuals had been reportedly laid off from his studios. [The Art Newspaper]

The worldwide jury that can award prizes on the Venice Biennale in April is comprised of Adrienne Edwards (the co-curator of this 12 months’s Whitney Biennial, who’s serving because the panel’s president), Lorenzo Giusti (the director of GAMeC Bergamo in Italy), Julieta González (creative director of Brazil’s Instituto Inhotim), Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (creative director of Berlin’s Savvy Up to date), and Susanne Pfeffer (Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt). [Press Release/La Biennale]

Artist Lucy Raven, who has received plaudits for her seductive and incisive movie installations, has joined Lisson Gallery. Raven will seem within the subsequent Whitney Biennial in New York, which opens to the general public on April 6. [ARTnews]

The Chicago Solar-Occasions has tapped author and photographer Lee Bey to pen a month-to-month structure column. “That is spectacular information—ultimately, some motion towards extra relatively than much less journalistic structure criticism,” veteran structure critic Paul Goldberger mentioned. [@PaulGoldberger/Twitter]

The Kicker

THE COMPUTER PROGRAMMER STEPHEN WILHITE, who invented the animated GIF in 1987, offering a platform for numerous memes and artworks, has died at the age of 74, the New York Occasions studies. “I noticed the format I needed in my head after which I began programming,” he once told the paper. Wilhite obtained a lifetime achievement honor from the Webby Awards , however his invention’s fame far outmatched his personal. His spouse, Kathaleen Wilhite, mentioned {that a} granddaughter as soon as relayed his achievement to her laptop trainer, who didn’t consider her, and so he penned a letter to the trainer to set the file straight. “Then he signed it Steve Wilhite and he mentioned, ‘Google it,’ ” his spouse defined. [The New York Times]