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Dear Friends and Clients,
The art market has been excitedly watching the contemporary art auction results in London, which confirmed a recovery of the top end of the market. According to Artprice, the sales achieved "excellent results" with the total revenue at Christie's and Sotheby's up 255% from February 2009.
In other news, seasoned photographer Richard Misrach's work was used as the screensaver for Apple's launch of the highly anticipated iPad. This is the first time the artist has licensed an image for commercial use in his 40-year career. Artists everywhere will have wished for a similar opportunity for instant brand exposure on such a global scale.
At Blue Tangerine Art, we are excited to introduce the abstract paintings by Birgitte Lund, a Danish artist who lives and works in Copenhagen. In her American debut, we present Lund's series of 'Psychedelic Landscape' paintings which express a dynamic geometry of color and line, rules and
chance. Lund's often fluorescent color sense of Nordic painting is grounded in the artist's frequent visits to SE Asia and particularly
India.
We also include an article by Blue Tangerine Art artist and curator Patter Hellstrom, who looks at the lure of multiples and limited edition prints in the design and art blog Decorati.
With the opening of the Armory art fair and ADAA's Art
Show around the corner, Blue Tangerine Art will be in New York to catch the fairs and to see what is current in the Contemporary Art world. We look forward to meeting you there!
See Armory Arts Week for a round up of all the fairs and events.
Safe travels to New York!
Trudy Montgomery
"There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." - Richard Avedon
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Contemporary art market recovers: excellent results in London's auction sales
Art Market Insight, Artprice.com
Published: February 10, 2010
With a total revenue figure up 255% compared with February 2009,
Christie's and Sotheby's Contemporary Art sales have confirmed the
recovery of the top end of the art market (combined revenue of $79,5m
in February 2010 vs. £22.3m from the same sales in 2009).
In effect, the good news has been flowing since 11 November 2009 when Andy WARHOL's 200 One Dollar Bills The Impressionist & Modern sales at the beginning of February were a resounding success with Alberto GIACOMETTI's L'homme qui marche I
setting a new world record for a work of art at £58m (record calculated
in GBP) and last week's Contemporary Art sales were equally dynamic
with sold rates of 96% at Sotheby's and 90% at Christie's.
more than tripled its high estimate by fetching $39m (Sotheby's NY).
Read on...
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Birgitte Lund: Featured Artist
A Magical Geometry
Birgitte Lund was born in Denmark and has exhibited in Copenhagen, Paris and New York. The title of Birgitte Lund's most recent series, Psychedlic Landscapes, refers to the inner journeys that are experienced by the viewer.
Each painting evolves on the canvas through a process of layering paper, shellac, chalk, fluid rubber, glazing of acrylic and oil paint until the composition is complete. Building texture over time and space, the artist includes various elements such as paper, sand and ephemera that the artist has collected from her study travels to India, Andalusia and SE Asia.
She lived in New York for three years, where the genesis of these geometric abstractions took place. The emphasis of sharp horizontal lines serve as a relief to the harsh vertical lines of the urban metropolis.
 These works look great hung in multiples- see installation view.
View more of Birgitte Lund's paintings online. and an installation view to
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With the Push of the iPad, a Photograph Goes Global
Richard Misrach photograph as iPad screensaver
ArtInfo
By ANDREW M. GOLDSTEIN
Published: January 28, 2010
When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad in a breathless, globally-broadcast event yesterday afternoon, few people were as bowled over as the man who took the photo displayed on the sleek product's desktop, veteran photographer Richard Misrach.
"I was in bed watching Inglorious Bastards when I got a call from Jeffrey Fraenkel, my dealer in San Francisco, and he said, 'Do you know what's going on live here?'" Misrach told ARTINFO. "I was totally shocked. Naturally my other galleries started calling and my family was all atwitter, because it's a whole different world."
Misrach, a sought-after San Francisco artist who has been shown in galleries around the world, says that Apple first contacted him some time ago and asked to see about 10 images from his different series, but rejected them. Then two weeks ago, on the night of the opening of his current show at Chelsea's Pace/MacGill gallery, he received an email from the company saying it had reconsidered and wanted to license Pyramid Lake (at Night), a 2004 photo he took at a Native American reservation in Nevada. Terms were set for a five-year exclusive deal, with the company saying they would use the image for screen-savers and other features. There was no mention of the iPad. "The funny thing is that I don't even have a contract with them yet, so they must have decided on it at the eleventh hour," Misrach says. "I'm sure they'll send me one quickly now. But I'm very happy, I'm sure it's fine, and the terms are good."
Read more...
Image: Richard Misrach, Pyramid Lake (At Night), 2004.
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The Lure of Limited Edition Prints
Decorati
By PATTER HELLSTROM
Published: February 22, 2010
 Multiples and limited edition prints are forging new ground in
design projects and collections as a hybrid alternative. New highly
detailed digital techniques became available and invite artists to
explore a contemporary print format. Artists are finding good results
on archival paper, in resin and on fabric. Sourcing intriguing prints
that retain the artist's vision offered at recessionary friendly price
points is a winning combination for designers. [...]
"Recent advances in high quality digital printing, and new mixed
media techniques have allowed in part for this trend to arise", said
Trudy Montgomery, Art Advisor at Blue Tangerine Art located in Los Angeles, San Francisco and London. Read more...
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Who's In? Armory Show risks expansion
Fair size rivals Art Basel Miami Beach; dealers pulling out threatened with legal action
The Art Newspaper, February 2010
by Lindsay Pollock
NEW YORK. In a period of retrenchment, New York's 12th annual Armory Show has taken a contrarian approach, expanding to include 285 dealers, up from 239 in 2009. New exhibitors range from Damien Hirst's Other Criteria, taking part in their first ever art fair and selling limited edition artist-designed wares, to Lora Reynolds, a five-year-old Austin, Texas gallery run by a former Anthony d'Offay and Matthew Marks staffer. The fair includes a contemporary section, with 211 dealers. The modern sectino features 74 galleries. The fair attracted 56,000 visitors in 2009.
The expansion makes the Armory show comparable in size to Art Basel Miami Beach, which included 273 exhibitors in December.
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Art Diary Dates
Upcoming Art Events
2010 Art Fair Calendar:- Scope, 355 West 36th Street, New York, NY: Mar 3-7
- Pulse, 330 West Street (Soho), New York, NY: Mar 4-7
- Verge, Dylan Hotel, 52 East 41st St, New York, NY: Mar 4-7
- Art Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Mar 17-20
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Blue Tangerine Art provides art advisory services to private and corporate collectors. We source contemporary art from a wide range of sources, including direct from artists and galleries, from the US and Europe.
We offer paintings, drawings and limited editions by artists including: Chris Crossen, Patter Hellstrom, Angela Findlay, Rachel Holloway, Birgitte Lund, Kathy Montgomery, Trudy Montgomery, Bella Pieroni, Anne Stahl, Nicola Wood, Suzan Woodruff and Eric Zener among others.
And photography-based work by: Sparky Campanella, Sebastien Davila, Bjornulf Dyrud, Allison Hunter, Cressandra Thibodeaux, Sieglinde Van Damme as well as many others not listed on our website.
We look forward to helping you find just what you're
looking for, whether it be limited edition prints or original works.
Please feel free to contact us with your request via email or on (310) 699-6826 or (310) 774-1959.
Happy Collecting!
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Trudy Montgomery
Art Advisor and Principal, Blue Tangerine Art
web: http://www.BlueTangerineArt.com
email: trudy@bluetangerineart.com
twitter: @trudymontgomery
tel: (415) 515-6094
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