Asian Art and Antiques Auction to coincide with the last week of Asia Week 2012, March 30th amp; 31st starting at 10:00am both days at 117 Elliott Street, Beverly, Massachusetts, Kaminski Auctions gallery.

Beverly, MA (PRWEB) March 15, 2012

Kaminski Auctions of Beverly, Massachusetts and Beverly Hills, California announces its Spring 2012 Fine Asian Art and Antiques Auction to coincide with the last week of Asia Week 2012 in New York City, March 30th amp; 31st starting at 10:00am both days, to be held at their auction gallery,117 Elliott Street, Beverly,Massachusetts.

Furniture in the sale includes a rare Pair of Huanghuali Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), chairs estimated at $20,000-$25,000 and a wonderful Huanghuali Kang table estimated at $20,000-$35,000.

An Early Japanese 20th C. Set of Ivory Figures, Statues of the Seven Deities of Fortune, “Shichifukujin,”, intricately carved as holding their attributes and standing on customized wood stands, the tallest figure being 15 inches is estimated at $30,000-$50,000. This exquisite set is from the estate of the Count and Countess von Haller v. Hallerstein, Boston, MA.

Among the other extraordinary Asian pieces in this estate was a 15th-16th century, bronze, statue of Kali from India. It stands 171/2 inches high and has multiple arms and hands radiating around her, each holding an item symbolic of her power, including the shield, trident and the sword, and standing on a platform with one foot stepping on a defeated foe.

With the current success of Chinese porcelain reaching new auction highs a magnificent early 19th century Chinese Rose Mandarin Palace punch bowl, featuring figures in a palace scenes, with an elaborate interior border of bats, birds, blossoms, and coins, the exterior rim with a border of auspicious fruits, chrysanthemums and butterflies, gilt details and rim, (8 1/2 x 22 3/4 dia.) is estimated at $30,000-$50,000 and is the top lot of the sale.

Another important porcelain entry is a pair of blue and white vases, from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). They are of baluster form, with flared rims and each is painted with Ming officials partaking in a hunt, 15 1/2 x 5. Their pre-auction estimate is $12,000-$18,000.

Ben Wang, Kaminski’s Asian specialist has put together a superb sale with a wide array of outstanding pieces. For more information or to view the sale online go to http://www.kaminskiauctions.com or call 978-927-2223 to register.

Kaminski Auctions located on the North Shore of Boston has been serving the New England antiques market for over 25 years, as a full service auction house and appraisal service for fine art, antiques and estates.

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Bruce Katsiff remembers being asked, sometime around 1990, by the board president of the James A. Michener Art Center if he would be interested in running the organization, which had recently opened on the site of the former Bucks County prison in Doylestown.

To that point, Katsiff had been chair of the fine art department, and more recently the art and music division, at Bucks County Community College since 1975.

He was ready for a change but, as he remembers, I had no interest in running an arts center. I wanted to run a museum.

That turned out to be as easily done as said. The center was rebaptized as a museum, Katsiff was appointed as the organizations second director, and the James A. Michener Art Museum took off on a sustained run of development that continues unabated.

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Chairman Mao proclaimed The East is red.

After visiting China last year, Nan Hass Feldman painted its terraced rice paddies, winding rivers and soaring mountains in an eye-popping profusion of incandescent colors that would leave the old revolutionary blinking.

The Framingham artist is showing more than 50 paintings at Fountain Street Fine Art in a gorgeous exhibition, Dreaming East, Dreaming West, that reimagines the landscape of southwest China in the bold, brilliant colors and elemental figures of a fable.

A fine-featured woman wearing a silk blouse embroidered with the image of a peacock, Feldman said, I love rich and pure colors.

Ankle deep in shining paddies, peasants in straw hats harvest rice in wicker baskets. A solitary fisherman poles a fragile sampan down the Li River against a backdrop of towering limestone peaks. As if viewed from a mountaintop, a patchwork of multicolored fields extends from a village to the horizon.

Looking at the canvases, Feldman said, smiling, These are so me. I can see all the natural patterns of fields. I can see natural ideas for the composition. I can just make up the rest, she said.

A widely experienced artist who has taught extensively in the US and abroad, Feldman said the paintings in the show represent her way of recording and responding creatively to places in the East and West she visited and imagined.

I love to capture my real environments, or those of friends and places Ive been to, through my screen of selective seeing, playful detail, heightened color and bits of fantasy, she said.

Cheryl Clinton, who co-founded and co-owns the gallery with Marie Craig, described Feldmans work as exuberant, passionate and joyful.

While most works in the show feature scenes from China, she said Feldman also included about 20 paintings of Italy, France, Framingham and Wellesley.

Nans paintings really fit in with our goal at the gallery to surprise viewers, said Clinton.

While Feldman and her husband, Alan Feldman, a poet who teaches English at Framingham State University, and others in their group visited major cities including Beijing, Xian and Shanghai, her paintings mostly feature landscapes around the Li River in Guiyang Province in southwestern China.

Rather than paint the overcrowded mega cities and the polluted countryside of contemporary China, Feldman has, like Marco Polo seven centuries ago, returned from a visit to real country with even more memorable images of the fabled Middle Kingdom of our imaginations.

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Fibre Arts Design Studio, located in Palo Alto, California, is a destination for fine art and the best of design. At our studio you will find:

The Gallery: a curated exhibition space that hosts seven exhibitions a year.

The Shop: a collection of art and design products from around the world…. more

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St Francois celebrates anniversary with art show

By Anne Hilton Monday, March 19 2012

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the school and to honour the memory of their first art teacher and respected artist in her own right, the late Sybil Atteck, St Francois Girls? College mounted an exhibition of students? art that opened in The Gallery at Fine Art on Monday, March 5.

My apologies to both students and staff of the college for this very late review of the anniversary exhibition which got lost, in part, due to attendance at the Musical Festival on the evening of the opening.

However, better late than never. My congratulations to St François Girls? College on their 50th anniversary and continuing high standard of work in the art department.

?Venezuela Pain II? is a collage that won?t earn Rebecca Diaz brownie points with President Hugo Chavez. It?s interesting to see young people prepared to protest through their art at what they perceive to be injustice.

Cardella Benthum?s ?Old Man? is a thoughtful, well observed pencil drawing of a man lighting a pipe, while Kimberley Ramey?s mask ?Global Warming? puzzles somewhat ? except, perhaps, for the cracks and fissures in the ice and blue meltwater indicating the effect of global warming on both Arctic and Antarctic.

Saraphone de Leon?s ?Dancing Girl? might be the Black Swan as opposed to the white tutus of the cygnets on Swan Lake, although I wondered what the brightly coloured circles (whirlpools?) signified behind the dancer?s back.

?The Gauntlet? by Susan Burrows is an infinitely detailed and, (one supposes) painstaking pencil/pan-and-ink drawing of a mailed fist amid fans, leaves, curlicules, peacock tails, intricately decorated globes ?

Finally for this review there is Adia Phillip?s ?Parrots? ? in which, despite the title, I could only discern one amid the greenery and ropes of vines in this strong, arresting piece. Once again, my apologies to St Francois Girls? College for this review that, perforce, must be published in Newsday after this exhibition closed.

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MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — There’s nothing unusual about hearing French, Italian, German or even Russian spoken at the European Fine Art Fair. But this year, as the doors to the cavernous convention center here opened for the invitation-only preview on Thursday, Chinese was also a noticeable part of the mix.

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Rob and Nick Carter and The Fine Art Society

Rob and Nick Carter’s video “Transforming Still Life Painting,” an exact but shifting copy of a 1618 work.