Shirin Fakhim, “The Tell-Tale Tart,” Feb. 25-Mar. 28, 2011, at Leila
Heller Gallery, New York

"How do the new sanctions against the government of Iran affect an
artist like Shirin Fakhim, who lives in Tehran and yet whose
sculptures are gaining increasing traction in the Western art market?"

Read: http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/grant/iranian-art-and-the-us-embarg...

Lucretia, oil on panel by Lucas Cranach, 15th–16th century. 57 × 46.5 cm.

"Lucretia is a striking panel by German Renaissance painter Lucas
Cranach the Elder, which has not been seen on the market – and
virtually unseen by anyone – since its sale to the current owner in
1988 (est. $4/6 million). Its recent cleaning has revealed an
extremely well-preserved paint layer, which contains all of the
hallmarks of the early style of Cranach, in one of his most favored
subjects. The work has been dated to extremely early in the artist’s
career, both for stylistic reasons and for the construction of the
panel that is seen in works before 1510."

Source:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=52566
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/97442/Lucretia-oil-on-panel-by-Luca...

Detail of Jonathan Yeo's "Capsulotomy and Implant Exchange
Symmetrisation," 2011. Courtesy the artist

Jonathan Yeo's sitters may include Dennis Hopper, Nicole Kidman, and
David Cameron — and he might be currently working on portraits of
Sienna Miller and Kevin Spacey — but the artist has always been up for
unsettling his polished image of society painter. In 2007, he produced
a portrait of George Bush collaged together from clipping from porn
mags. The U.S. Republican party called it "extremely distasteful," but
it was an instant hit — and similar portraits of Tiger Woods, Paris
Hilton, and (infamously) Sarah Palin shortly followed.

Yeo's newly open exhibition at London's Lazarides Gallery reveals yet
another radically different aspect of the painter's multifarious
practice. For "You're Only Young Twice," Yeo has turned to cosmetic
surgery for subject matter. The show features images of bodies mapped
out for the scalpal, before-and-after mammary augmentation diptychs,
and unconscious patients on operation tables. Speaking to ARTINFO UK
recently, the artist explained the background of the new series."

Read the interview:
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/753894/aesthetic-surgery-portraitist-jonath...

Lot 340: Peter Beard, Fayel Tall / El Molo Bay, Lake Rudolf, silver
print with applied blood and feather, 1987, printed 1997.
Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.
© The Peter Beard Studio

From the Important Photobooks & Photographs auction at
http://www.swanngalleries.com/