Art Fair Season

Booth B7 at the ADAA art fair will house Greenberg Van Doren’s solo-artist show, "Richard Diebenkorn: Works on Paper". Inspired by Miró and Picasso, Diebenkorn draws from the colors of the California and New Mexican landscape and is most widely known for his large-scale, vivid abstractions. This gouache work of oil on paper measures 24 ½ x 22 ⅛ inches, and is priced at $225,000.

At the ADAA fair, UES gallery stalwart Knoedler & Company will be presenting an exhibition, “Milton Avery and the Figure,” a look at Avery’s representational, yet flat, treatment of the body. The so-called American Matisse, Avery was more interested in color relations than naturalistic depth.

Madison Avenue drawings dealer Tunick brings a historically important early Picasso print to the Park Avenue Armory. In 1904, the Spanish master returned to Paris after being forced to leave a year earlier because of a lack of funds. His first venture into the print medium, Le Repas Frugal depicts the artist’s own impoverished state, and the gritty, urban life of the artists and poets who neighbored him on the Rue Ravignan in Montmartre. The work is priced “in the six figures.” Other featured artists will include Rembrandt, Warhol and Munch, whose Madonna is priced “in the seven figures.”

Richard Artschwager has two recent works featured by the David Nolan Gallery; they’re painted in pastel on paper, and move away from his usual architectural style. Instead, they reflect his experience living in Las Cruces, New Mexico during his childhood.

As a husband-and-wife team, French artists Francois-Xavier and Claude Lalanne blur the lines between fine and decorative art. Sensuous and somewhat bizarre, their sculptures combine botanical and animal. This bronze piece, from an edition of 100, is 4 1/2-inches square. Another artist being shown by the Paul Kasmin Gallery is William N. Copley.

Ten of Andy Warhol’s iconic Campbell's Soup screenprints, each signed, stamped and measuring 35 inches by 23 inches, will be featured by Richard L. Feigen & Co. Within the artist’s oeuvre, the soup cans were partly responsible for catapulting him from being a commercial illustrator, to a celebrated Pop artist. The set will be selling for $385,000.

A passionate cult of collectors and artists remembers San Francisco pioneer Bruce Conner. He emerged from the city’s Beat era of the 1950s and became well-known as both an artist and filmmaker. By the time of his death in 2008, Conner had established a reputation as a master of montage. This $375,000 assemblage includes paper collage, a wood broom handle, a metal spring, an electric light socket, twine and other materials. The gallery will also be highlighting a $350,000 Wallace Berman collage.

Another highlight of Richard Feigen’s ADAA exhibition will be Frank Stella’s polychromed cast steel sculpture, priced at $185,000. A minimalist painter, printmaker, sculptor and architect, Stella's painting was influenced by Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns and Franz Kline. His five-decade career has more recently moved towards monumental sculpture and metalworks.

Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs will present From Lace to Lamppost: The Object as Subject in 19th Century Photographs, featuring artists such as William Henry Fox Talbot, Anna Atkins, John B. Greene, and Charles Marville. This photograph by Marville is an albumen print from a collodion negative, measuring 35.8 x 25.3 cm. Although it was taken in the early days of the medium, “Candélabre du canal St. Martin” seems somewhat modern, with the Parisian streetlamp captured in great detail against the stark sky. The work is priced at $50,000. Other notable pieces will include John Beasly Greene’s Still life with Glass, Flask and Bottle, priced at $110,000.