1974 DIEGO VOCI #BENEDICTINE #CONTEST ENTRY

In 1974 #DIEGO was invited to participate in the 12th Annual BENEDICTINE Art Awards in #NY (USA). #DIEGO showed no interest. The Diego Voci Historian, Coop Cooprider,  offered to buy DIEGO’s creation in advance, on the condition it would be submitted to the #BENEDICTINE event. DIEGO agreed. DIEGO had complete freedom on what to paint.

This 1974 full image (30″ x 24″ sand based paint on canvas- BELOW) with the 14″ BENEDICTINE bottle shows the result as submitted to the BENEDICTINE event.

Diego Voci; “Benedictine” sand based paint on canvas #34948D 1974

Look closely at this close up (BELOW) of the 14″ BENEDICTINE bottle

Now look closely (BELOW) at the second full image 30″ x 24″ of the same painting. What happened to the BENEDICTINE bottle? It’s gone!

When DIEGO learned he did not win, he retaliated, and obliterated the BENEDICTINE bottle and its labels. Before the Diego Voci Art Historian, Coop Cooprider could pick up the paid-in-advance “BENEDICTINE” painting, DIEGO had clandestinely painted out all evidence of his disappointing BENEDICTINE experience. DIEGO transformed the BENEDICTINE bottle into a 14″ pink pitcher adding a handle (see ABOVE).

Click to learn more about the “Versatility” #Diego!  https://www.artifactcollectors.com/diego-history-4330818.html

 

 

#CELEBRATE ALL #MOTHERS

#Diego Voci #Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Diego_Voci

Check out other Diego originals for sale by Helga Voci: https://www.diegovociproject.com/_p/prd4/4622949491/product/title%3A-maternit%C3%A0 

Curious about your Diego signature?  https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/signatures-antonio-diegovocitm/

 

 

WHO OWNS THIS PAINTING THAT #DIEGO IS WORKING ON IN THIS PHOTO TAKEN IN 1974?

Any information or whereabouts of this painting, email us at diegovociproject@gmail.com

AC P of W 4/3/2013

#MODIGLIANI BOUGHT BY CHINESE TAXI DRIVER $171MILLION

Update from post on September 19, 2015

https://diegovociproject.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/nine-figures-to-buy-one-nude-figure-by-modigliani/

Straight from the #NYTimes

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/arts/with-170-4-million-sale-at-auction-modigliani-work-joins-rarefied-nine-figure-club.html?_r=0

In an overheated art market where anything seems possible, a painting of an outstretched nude woman by the early-20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani sold on Monday night for $170.4 million with fees to Liu Yiqian, a former taxi driver turned billionaire art collector, in a packed sales room at Christie’s. It was the second-highest price paid for an artwork at auction.

The painting became the 10th work of art to reach nine figures under the hammer. The bidding was palpably tense, with six people vying for the lot, and it took nine minutes to sell, with the winning bid coming from the phone. Mr. Liu, who with his wife Wang Wei is among China’s most visible art collectors, confirmed on Tuesday that he is the buyer. He said he planned to bring the work back to Shanghai, where he and his wife have two private museums.

Modigliani nudes are regarded as among the ultimate trophy paintings of the 20th century.

To view the video on BBC click on the link: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34775073

Courtesy of The Diego Voci Project:  www.diegovociproject.com

MISSING LARGE DIEGO VOCI™ PAINTING…CALLING #SHERLOCK: WHERE IS “JERRY O”?

The Diego Voci Project never received an image for the Diego Voci Archive Database.  Please contact the diegovociproject@gmail.com with any information on “Jerry O” or the image.

SOLD: #MODIGLIANI $42 MILLION… DIEGO VOCI™ ESTATE OFFERS “VISAGE DE FILLE”

(left) Diego Voci’s “Visage de Fille” 11” x14”, oil on board. Diego Voci (1920-1985)

(right) Amedeo Modigliani’s “Portrait de Paulette Jourdain,” c. 1919, which sold at Sotheby’s for $42.8 million.

Persons attracted to Modigliani are also drawn to the magnetism of artist DIEGO VOCI™.  This small Diego is part of the DIEGO VOCI™ ESTATE.  Available:  Link to www.diegovociproject.com; click “Acquire Originals”.

About the $42 million Modigliani:

“There were plenty of big-ticket lots peppered throughout the evening, highlighted in large part by Amedeo Modigliani’s beautiful and almost prim seated portrait “Paulette Jourdain,” from circa 1919, which sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for the top lot price of $42,810,000 (est. upon request in excess of $25 million). The unidentified, silver-haired under bidder sat in the fourth row of the salesroom, wedged between two blonde companions and sipping white wine during the bidding. The pony-tailed sitter in the painting was the maid and later companion/lover of Leopold Zborowski, Modigliani’s Paris dealer. The work was last exhibited in “Modigliani and His Models” at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2006. It was one of Modigliani’s last portraits before his death in 1920 and #Taubman acquired the work from the Acquavella Galleries in 1983, the same year he acquired Sotheby’s with the help of several private investors, including Henry Ford II.”

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1271802/sothebys-377m-a-alfred-taubman-masterworks-sale?utm_source=BLOUIN+ARTINFO+Newsletters&utm_campaign=f7ddc4e44b-Daily+Digest+November+05+2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_df23dbd3c6-f7ddc4e44b-83386813

AC P of W #290 11/9/15

THE BEGINNING OF ADDICTION TO DIEGO VOCI ART

Patti and Coop Cooprider Madonna & Child, 1966

1966, a young married couple, Americans living in Germany, bought their first “expensive” Diego Voci painting, “Madonna and Child”.  They bought it for $150 on layaway, 3 payments. That was a big chunk of their small budget at the time.

The artist Diego Voci was represented by Joy Gibson, a Canadian art dealer operating out of Zweibrucken, partnering with Dr. Jawdat Naffouj.

The Coopriders, Coop (he’s the skinny one on the left 6’2”) and Patti just could not stop at one (The Potato Chip Phenomenon).  They knew Diego and Helga through the years buying many more Diego’s.

Coop became the volunteer Diego Voci Historian in 1973 and began the volunteer Diego Voci Project in 2010, a property of the Diego Voci Estate, and in 2011 began the official Diego Voci Archive to search for and catalog all the lost Diego oil paintings scattered around the world.  We’ve identified approximately 1,000 of 4,000 so far.

Please help us find the rest.  Email us at diegovociproject@gmail.com

To receive a complimentary Diego Voci Monthly Newsletter please let us know at the same e-mail:  diegovociproject@gmail.com

AC DV History #207 10/5/2015

A GIFT OF OUR DAUGHTER AND OUR FIRST TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES!

“HELGA AND DIEGO”

by Helga Voci

Chapter 6 Part 1

“1970-1976”

“Diego was preparing an art show in Ravenna, Italy which was organized by Galleria Cairoli from October 30th to November 10th in 1970. We had a beautiful season, Italian lifestyle, sunshine, beach, and good Italian food.  After this exhibit we moved back to Germany in December of that year.

My parents were then building a house in Bavaria. Diego was drawing the plans and helped with the interior decoration. So we rented an apartment there from December 1970 until June 1972. At that time Diego still sent paintings to Naffouj, but he was not so happy anymore with the agreement, so we stopped and started doing the business ourselves.

For several years we worked together with Liliane Dussard, a French lady who had been working in Naffouj Gallery before and later on. I think in 1972 Christine Khan took over. I am still in contact with Christine.

In the meantime we moved from Bavaria to Schwetzingen near Heidelberg. There we had a little daughter, Alessandra (you can view a portrait Diego made of her in of the previous posts).   In 1976 we moved to Taunusstein near Wiesbaden, where we bought a house and where Diego lived and worked until his death in 1985. This house is where I still live today.

 

Above: Pastel of Alessandra Voci when she was 8 years old, born 1974 and a recent Photograph of Alessandra today.

During that time, in 1973, we made our first trip to the United States. We bought a car in New York and we drove across the U.S. from N.Y. to San Francisco. We went to places like New Orleans and Albuquerque. We visited several Indian pueblos, where Diego started to make sketches of the Indians, because he thought they had very interesting faces.”

Let the DVP Team know at diegovociproject@gmail who Diego visited during his travels in the United States1973.

WHERE IS THIS CLASSIC #VOCI PAINTING?

Signature “Voci” early works 1960’s by Diego Voci.

The signature “Voci” is rare as most of the Diego’s works before 1965 (signed A.Voci). (see image above).  The “Diego” signature was signed for a 20 year period (1965-1985).  Historically, this painting is considered a prominent work of art as it was during a time period in Diego’s life when he painted at Schlossgalerie in Zurich, Switzerland.

This #Voci painting was first discovered on Artifact Collectors back in May 12, 2014. http://www.artifactcollectors.com/diego-voci-painting-of-the-week-april-22-2013-6491218.html#78216.  It was posted under the name “Nadja”.  We have tried to contact without result.
This is an example of a work of art The Diego Voci Project would like to have in our Major Museum Exhibition (generous benefactor needed).

The all-volunteer non-profit Diego Voci Project Team is the only authorized Diego Voci Archive of all of the prolific work of internationally collected Antonio Diego Voci http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Diego_Voci.

Contact The Diego Voci Project Team at diegovociproject@gmail.com with any information on the whereabouts or owners of this painting.

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THE LARGEST MARKETPLACE OF #DIEGO ARTWORK ON #EARTH

The Diego Voci Project (all volunteer non-profit team) is on a mission on behalf of the Diego Voci Estate to discover all of Diego Voci’s works of art. The Diego Voci Project website is designed to learn about Diego, keep abreast of new information, Diego art works for sale and a community for collectors and new collectors to share their stories, memories, thoughts about Diego.

The Passion of the Diego Voci Project Team

We celebrate Diego Voci in recognition of a vast and prolific career for the many collectors that were touched by the product of Diego’s mind’s eye and the warmth of his good nature. He lived and breathed his Art. Of the thousands of artwork he created the diegovociproject.com website proudly presents a small sampling herein.

Within the Gallery Walls of Diego Voci Project Website

The galleries within the website provide a sample of Diego’s artistic flexibility, in addition to painting with oils, tempera and acrylics, the Artist Diego loved to create with pastels, pen and ink, sepia, water colors, charcoal and crayon. He was highly skilled with all the media in which he worked. The Artist Diego sculpted, worked in bronze, designed and tailored clothing, created church frescos all with equal facility. Regardless of the media, each work is singularly Diego; instantly recognizable.

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