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Latin American Week Preview
Please visit the gallery during Latin American week, May 20-25, to view new acquisitions and selected inventory.
Virtual Tour of Selected Works for the ADAA Art Show
Please join us at the ADAA Art Show, Booth B7.
For more information about the fair visit their official website.
MAMFA to Show in The ADAA Art Show March 6-11, 2012
The Art Show takes place March 7 through March 11 at the Park Avenue Armory. There will be a Gala Preview on March 6 to benefit the Henry Street Settlement. To purchase Gala tickets please call 212-766-9200 ext. 248 or visit the Henry Street Settlement website. The fair, which is organized by the Art Dealers Association of America, presents exhibitions from the nation’s leading art dealers and galleries showcasing a variety of museum-quality exhibits ranging from cutting-edge, 21st century works, to masterpieces from the 19th and 20th centuries.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Mary-Anne Martin|Fine Art. The gallery will be showing a special selection of works relating to Realism and Surrealism in Latin America. The exhibition with include important works by Latin American masters such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam, and Matta.
Master Drawings New York 2012
Master Drawings New York will return to the Upper East Side for the sixth consecutive year from January 21-28, 2011, with a private viewing on Friday, January 20 from 4-8 pm. This year twenty-three exhibitions from the UK, France, Spain, Germany and the US will be on view, enabling connoisseurs to buy drawings across a broad range of price points at galleries all within walking distance of one another. The selection will include oil sketches, watercolours, drawings in charcoal, pencil and pen and ink. Be sure to visit Mary-Anne Martin|Fine Art during this exciting event.
To learn more about Master Drawings New York visit the official website.
Virtual Tour of Selected Works for Art Basel Miami Beach 2011
Please join us at Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth D-02.
We will be featuring works by Claudio Bravo, Alfredo Castañeda, Isabel De Obaldía, Pedro Figari, Gunther Gerzso, Mathias Goeritz, Maria Izquierdo, Armando Morales, Alice Rahon, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toledo, Joaquín Torres-García and others.
For more information about the fair visit their official website
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ADAA Collectors’ Forum: Latin American Art in Global Collections
Saturday, November 12, 11:00am
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, NYC
The New Season of ADAA Collectors’ Forums launches November 12, 2011 with “Latin American Art in Global Collections” at the Morgan Library and Museum. On the occasion of the PINTA art fair, the panel will investigate the roles of art dealers, collectors, curators and auction houses in the development of greater global awareness and interest in art from Latin America High level panelists from all sectors of the art world will discuss the significance of collecting modern and contemporary art from Latin America and their drive to advance the genre.
To reserve a ticket visit the ADAA website.
“Primordial: Paintings and Sculpture by Isabel De Obaldía” Now on View at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
Primordial: Paintings and Sculpture by Isabel De Obaldía opened to the public on September 25. The show received a glowing review from Rod Stafford Hagwood of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Hagwood interviewed Irvin Lippman, director of the museum, who said that De Obaldía’s work, “is a powerful expressive force [that] really captures the spirit of nature.” Hagwood also spoke with Susan Aberth, assistant professor of art history at Bard College, who added “Her work has a great dramatic presence. There is a light-enhanced quality but the pieces are also very heavy looking. They speak to the past. And then there’s the size of them. There is a psychological weightiness there. They feel almost alive…They look ancient…animals with fangs and spikes and things that attack…menacing males, mostly stern and holding a weapon of some sort.” The exhibition continues through May 27, 2012. continue reading…
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Isabel De Obaldía Retrospective to be held at The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale will present a mid-career retrospective of Isabel De Obaldía’s work, opening to the public September 25, 2011. The show, titled “Primordial: Paintings and Sculptures by Isabel De Obaldía, 1985-2011,” will feature approximately 100 works by the artist, as well as a number of pre-Columbian objects that relate to her artistic process. The exhibition has been scheduled to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Studio Glass Movement in the United States and will be on display through May 27, 2012.
To view the official press release from the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, click here.
Arte Al Día Commemorates Women Gallerists
The current issue of Arte Al Día International magazine focuses on the growing significance of Latin American art in the global art world. One article in particular, titled “Latin American Art in the Visionary Eye of Women Gallerists,” addresses the role a number of noteworthy women gallerists have played in shaping this sector of the art market. The author, Janet Batet, notes that,
The first name that comes to mind for historical reasons is that of Mary-Anne Martin, who developed a praiseworthy effort towards the recognition of modern Latin American artists from her position at the auction house Sotheby’s New York. She was responsible for three capital events for the Latin American Art market which would lead to the creation of Sotheby’s Latin American Art Department. These were: the inclusion in the 1976 modern art auction sale of thirty pieces of Mexican art and their successful sale, the first auction sale of Mexican works in the United States in 1977, and later, in 1979 the first Latin American art auction sale.
In 1982, Mary-Anne left Sotheby’s to establish her own gallery and fulfill a task which has been crucial for the launching of such figures as Gunther Gerzso and Francisco Toledo, among others.
To read this article in full please visit the magazine’s website at http://www.artealdia.com/International and click on the current issue.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2011
The gallery will be participating in Art Basel Miami Beach 2011. We will be featuring works by Carrington, Castañeda, Covarrubias, De Obaldía, Gerzso, Goeritz, Matta, Mérida, Rivera, Tamayo, Toledo, and others. For more information about the fair please visit their website at www.artbaselmiamibeach.com.
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The New York Times Reviews Master Drawings in New York
Frida Kahlo, "El Verdadero Vacilón (The True Tease)", pencil on paper, 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches, signed and titled, 1946
MAM/FA’s Surrealist drawing show received a favorable mention in Roberta Smith’s article in The New York Times Arts section on January 27, 2011. Ms. Smith featured an image of Frida Kahlo, “El Verdadero Vacilón,” noting how the drawing is a “dense, extended doodle, it embeds a lexicon of Kahlo motifs — a hand, veins, some eyes, several breasts — in a geodesic constellation fraught with stars and spirals that seem straight out of late Kandinsky.”
Please click on the link below to view the full article and slide show.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/arts/design/27masters.html
Master Drawings Week in New York
Master Drawings New York will return to the Upper East Side for the fifth consecutive year from Saturday January 22 to Saturday January 29, 2011, with a private viewing on Friday January 21 from 4-9pm. This year twenty-four exhibitors from the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain will exhibit a wide range of works from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The selection will include oil sketches, watercolours, drawings in charcoal, pencil and pen and ink.
This year Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art will feature Surrealist drawings and watercolors by Latin American masters, including Carrington, Castañeda, Cuevas, Gerzso, Gutierrez, Hernandez, Kahlo, Lam, Matta, Paalen, Romo, Toledo, Xul Solar, and Zenil. Also on view will be works by Covarrubias, Rivera, Ramos-Martinez, and more.