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Today, Peter and Dan combine forces to spotlight several amazing lots from last Sunday’s record-breaking auction that are still available for purchase — all at amazing prices. The lots Peter and Dan highlight are just the tip of the iceberg. Please see our complete list of unsold lots.
Continue Reading >> May 23, 2013Posted in Dan on Design, Peter's Auction Picks | Tagged Dan Tolson, Eames, gio ponti, Horace Bristol, LAMA, Man Ray, modern art, Modern Design, Osvaldo Borsani, Peter Loughrey | Leave a comment
Getting Ready for the May 19th Modern Art & Design Auction
Time to get ready for tomorrow’s auction.
Continue reading for helpful auction tips.
Posted in LAMA Current Events | Tagged auction, LAMA, modern art, Modern Design, Peter Loughrey | Leave a comment
Peter’s Picks of the Day: Ceramics
Today I’d very much like to discuss a group of remarkable ceramists represented in Sunday’s auction. These master craftsmen changed our artistic recognition of the clay medium. Glen Lukens, Peter Voulkos, and Ken Price revolutionized ceramics in Los Angeles and the world beyond.
Continue Reading >> May 17, 2013Posted in Peter's Auction Picks, Words from Peter Loughrey | Tagged ceramics, Glen Lukens, Ken Price, Modern ceramics, Peter Loughrey, Peter Voulkos | 1 Comment
Peter’s Auction Pick of the Day: Vija Celmins Painting from 1964
For over twenty years, Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) has been privileged to auction over 25,000 works of modern art and design, but last February a longtime friend and client of LAMA presented me one of the most important works LAMA has ever represented: Vija Celmins’ Untitled (Knife and Dish) (Lot 160) from her seminal year of 1964.
I had never seen a Celmins painting from this legendary era in-person and for good reason – the artist only created these object paintings for a brief period in 1964. They are therefore extremely rare; experts have speculated that there are fewer than ten such paintings in existence. The works that have survived, and are publicly known, are in the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, as well as important private collections.
Continue Reading >> May 15, 2013Posted in LAMA Exclusive, Peter's Auction Picks, Words from Peter Loughrey | Tagged contemporary art, LACMA, MoMA, Peter Loughrey, Vija Celmins | Leave a comment
Peter’s Auction Pick of the Day: Exploring the Artist’s Hand
Peter’s Auction Pick of the Day: Exploring the Artist’s Hand
“The artist’s hand…” You may have heard art historians use that term to convey how a master leaves very specific and telltale signs of his or her authorship with every muse-kissed scratch, scrawl, and dab. An expert can spot an unsigned Picasso as genuine merely by identifying Picasso’s one-of-a-kind handling of every medium he ever tackled.
Sunday’s fast approaching auction boasts an intriguing group of works that take the phrase “the artist’s hand” even more literally – for in each of the following lots the artist works his own appendage into the composition. There’s something deeply personal when an artist gives his hand, his unaccredited collaborator if you will, a cameo.
Continue Reading >> May 14, 2013Posted in Peter's Auction Picks, Words from Peter Loughrey | Tagged Alexander Calder, Bruce Nauman, Emerson Woelffer, Harry Bertoia, LAMA, Man Ray, Peter Loughrey, Sam Francis | 2 Comments
Peter’s Auction Pick of the Day: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
Peter’s Auction Pick of the Day: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
Regarding the power of things…there’s a magic trick with which artists have been delighting us for millennia: The conjurer of canvas may invest so much of his own soul into depicting an inanimate object that the resulting painting or photo of mere lifeless metal, vegetable, meat, or clay can evoke in its beholder an overwhelming emotional response.
Therefore, inspired by our neighbors on Van Nuys Blvd—the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms—my picks for today have inspired me to meditate upon a certain type of inanimate object in art: the Object of Vice—Evil you can smoke, drink, and/or shoot.
Continue Reading >> May 13, 2013Posted in Peter's Auction Picks | Tagged Bill Barminski, Gottfried Helnwein, Larry Rivers, Peter Loughrey | 2 Comments
Tonight: Peter Loughrey on Antiques Roadshow
Peter Loughrey will be on Antiques Roadshow tonight – Seattle Hour 1 – and he will be live tweeting for the duration of the show.
Follow @LAModernAuction and @RoadshowPBS on Twitter to get Peter’s unique perspective and expertise. Live tweeting starts tonight at 7:45 p.m. (PST).
To see Peter in action and the modern marvel he is appraising, be sure to set your DVRs for the PBS Antiques Roadshow on Monday, May 13, 2013 (8 p.m. PST). Check out your local listings.
Continue Reading >> May 13, 2013Posted in LAMA Current Events, LAMA Exclusive | Tagged Antiques Roadshow, Modern Design, modern furniture, PBS, Peter Loughrey | Leave a comment
Peter Loughrey on Antiques Roadshow – January 21st
You saw him appraise a Jens Risom occasional table two weeks ago, but get ready ladies and gentlemen, Peter Loughrey is back on Antiques Roadshow this Monday night!
To see Peter in action and the modern marvel he is appraising, be sure to set your DVRs for the PBS Antiques Roadshow on Monday, January 21st (8 p.m. ET).
Continue Reading >> January 18, 2013Posted in LAMA Exclusive | Tagged Antiques Roadshow, Peter Loughrey | Leave a comment