The authenticity of the ultimate self-portrait by Paul Gauguin, made in 1903 and housed within the Kunstmuseum in Basel, was earlier this yr known as into query. Now, the museum has accomplished its promised evaluation, and confirmed that the portray just isn’t a pretend and is by Gauguin. Ben Luke talks to The Artwork Newspaper’s particular correspondent, Martin Bailey, in regards to the saga.
Mrinalini Mukherjee and works in progress at her storage studio. New Buddies Colony, New Delhi, c.1985
Courtesy of Mrinalini Mukherjee Basis and Asia Artwork Archive. Photograph: Ranjit Singh
Lately, the late Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee has come to rising prominence. Now, a present on the Royal Academy of Arts in London, known as A Story of South Asian Artwork: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle, explores her work within the context of six different artists together with her dad and mom, Leela Mukherjee and Benode Behari Mukherjee. The exhibition’s curator, Tarini Malik, tells Ben extra.
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Character Head No. 25
Photograph: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Character Head No.25 by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, the 18th-century sculptor who was born in Germany, and lived in modern-day Austria and Slovakia. The bust options within the exhibition Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: Greater than Character Heads, on the Belvedere in Vienna, and we discuss to the exhibition’s curators, Katharina Lovecky and Georg Lechner, in regards to the work.
