Art Market Updates

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Madame Ramón Subercaseaux, ca. 1880-81. Oil on canvas. The Fayez S. Sarofim Collection.

Masterworks on loan at MFAH

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has announced a partnership with the Sarofim Foundation, in which masterworks from the collection of the late Fayez S. Sarofim will be displayed across the museum’s gallery buildings. Included in Sarofim’s collection, amassed over nearly six decades, is a superb selection of American art, European painting and antiquities from such artists as John Singleton Copley, Frederic Edwin Church, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, John Singer Sargent, Marsden Hartley, John Marin and Georgia O’Keeffe.

The Hispanic Society Museum & Library, Sorolla Gallery, Vision of Spain (1912-1919).

An Exciting Lineup

The Hispanic Society Museum & Library—dedicated to the preserving, studying and exhibiting of art and culture of Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries and communities—has announced phase one of its reopening with a robust 2023 exhibition schedule. Programming will focus on the commemoration of Joaquín Sorolla’s centennial, Jesús Rafael Soto’s centennial and Pablo Picasso’s semi-centennial. The Hispanic Museum & Library is currently undergoing a major upgrade of three landmark buildings and restoration of the Audubon Terrace in order to maximize the organization’s resources, afford the ability to better serve the surrounding community and increase the institution’s ability to welcome partnerships and collaborations with local and international partners. The HSM&L will reopen its Main Court, Upper Terrace and the iconic Sorolla Gallery, Vision of Spain (1912-1919) in March 2023 as part of the commemoration.

A rendering of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, opening in fall 2023.

Notre Dame to Open New Museum

After nearly two years of research and design, the University of Notre Dame will unveil its new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art. The new museum expands upon the university’s esteemed Snite Museum of Art of Notre Dame, which will remain open until May 2023. The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art is set to open in November and will move to an entirely new building in the University’s arts district, serving as both an entrance to the campus and as a welcoming community partner. The project has been designed as a 132,000-square-foot complex that will “host the Museum’s renowned collections, dynamic exhibitions and engaging programs.”

George Voronovsky (1903-1982), Untitled (Circus), 1978-1982. Paint on canvas. Courtesy the Monroe Family Collection.

George Voronovsky at High Museum

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, presents the first major museum exhibition of work by Ukrainian American artist George Voronovsky. “Born in a small village in eastern Ukraine in 1903, Voronovsky immigrated to the United States after World War II and began working in the rail industry in Philadelphia. Employed as a train car cleaner and upholsterer for many years, he eventually retired to Miami Beach in the early 1970s, where he turned his room in South Beach’s Colony Hotel into an art refuge, living in the area until his death in 1982,” the museum notes. George Voronovsky: Memoryscapes will be on view March 24 to August 13.

Lee Mullican at James Cohan

Currently on view at New York City-based James Cohan’s 52 Walker Street location is the exhibition Lee Mullican: The Nest Revived. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at James Cohan and spans 60 years of formal experimentation by the late California artist, teacher and curator. Running through February 25, Lee Mullican: The Nest Revived showcases important early paintings and rarely-seen wooden assemblages from the 1940s and 1950s along with a monumental painting, totemic ceramics and even groundbreaking digital art from the ’80s.

Agnes Pelton (1881-1961), Translation, 1931. Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in. Courtesy Pace Gallery.

Love Letter

Curated by artists Loie Hollowell and Harminder Judge, Love Letter is an exhibition currently on view at Pace Gallery that brings together works by Hollowell and Judge in conversation with paintings by iconic transcendentalist Agnes Pelton alongside Ghulam Rasool Santosh, a modernist Kashmiri painter and poet associated with the neo-tantra painting movement in India. Made up of a total 24 works, the show aims to elicit “new connections between painting of the 20th century and the present day, foregrounding the experiential and transportive power of abstraction.” Love Letter is on view through February 25 at Pace Gallery’s New York location.

People &Places

Gemma Sudlow has joined Hindman as its new managing director, New York region, in a new role focused on launching the firm’s first full-service Manhattan saleroom. Sudlow, an auctioneer with 17 years of experience in business development, will lead a team of Hindman specialists in New York, as well as experts in the key categories of Post-War and contemporary art, photographs, furniture and decorative arts and more.

Hindman has also announced the opening of a new Miami office after more than a decade of establishing a strong presence in Florida. This latest expansion gives Hindman representation in three cities in Florida and 16 cities across the United States.

The Trustees of the Florence Griswold Museum have named Joshua Campbell Torrance as the next executive director of the 75-year-old cultural institution. Torrance brings more than 22 years of experience as executive director to his new post at the Florence Griswold Museum, which he began on February 6.

Aron Packer has joined Chicago-based Potter & Potter Auctions as director and specialist for the Fine and Outsider Art department. This department was recently established after Potter & Potter’s successful debut in December 2022 with its Fine and Outsider Art Sale, which realized $155,000.

The Colby College Museum of Art has appointed Elisa Germán its new Lunder Curator of Works on Paper and Whistler Studies. In her role at Colby College, Germán will oversee aspects of the museum’s exhibition and collection initiatives related to prints, drawings and photographs. A special focus is placed
on the nearly four hundred works by James McNeill Whistler in the museum’s Lunder Collection.