Kassel, a low-key town with friendly restaurants, cafes, and pedestrian shopping, all within walking distance of the Documenta sites, can be reached by train from Frankfurt (there is a link from the airport). Visitors to Kassel this year may also want to make a side trip to the Venice Biennale xmas gift on sale, where another array of international contemporary art pavilions will also be on view throughout the summer. Details have not yet been made available.
NOA TAL is bringing together a unique juxtaposition of Israeli jewelry designers and the considerations of large scale manufacturers in a show entitled “A Stone xmas gift sale, A Touch, A Jewel,” at the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum in Ramat Gan. The display by 10 artists and 22 manufacturers focuses on unusual setting treatments as well as on standard manufacturing considerations.
A SOTHEBY’S sale in London this Thursday of “Post-War and Contemporary Art” comprises a great many paintings and drawings on paper at reasonable prices, perhaps a reflection of a more sensible market. For instance a very lively and colorful gestural oil on paper by a leading British abstractionist, Alan Davie, is estimated as little as 2,000. Two gouache abstractions by the late August Herbin are estimated around 3,000 Links Rings .
Much stiffer prices are asked for larger oils by Ron Kitaj, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossof and Lucien Freud, the leading quartet in Britain (curiously, all of Jewish or partly Jewish origin).
Two lively and colorful acrylics on paper by the late Jean Dubuffet, from the Jan Krugier Gallery, Geneva, are estimated at 14,000-16,000 each links of london friendship Bracelet. On the other hand, heads drawn by A.R. Penck and Gorge Condo may be had for around 400-600.