Henry’s Auktionshaus #SOLD 3 #DiegoVoci™ Paintings

 

“Le Village d’Ore”, “Markt Day” and “Bambini con Frutta” all sold in December 2015 through an #auction house in #Germany via #LiveAuctioneers.com  https://www.liveauctioneers.com/  

The painting “Bambineicon Frutta” (bottom center in image below) was featured on the cover of 1974 #TV Guide.  A unique story co-written by Coop #Cooprider and Andy Anderson.  This article reached many and caught the attention of Stephen Max.  Stephen was inspired by the painting on the front cover and after reading the article wanted to become a Diego Collector.  Years later Max became the Canadian Representor of DiegoVoci™ at GoldCrest #Galleries.    And now Max is the creator of videos for the DiegoVoci™ Project, the DiegoVoci™ Newsletter, “The Beauty of Diego” and more.

“Bambine con Frutta” sold for $811 USD – in 1985 it had been sold at $800 by Galerie Dahms in Wiesbaden to a Herr Matheis. Where are the children with fruit now?

“Le Village d’Ore” sold for $460 USD surrealist figurative painting capturing the light in the boy’s eyes.

“Markt Day” sold for $811 USD a distinct style with emotion shown here in movement as the fruits of people’s labor shared with others.

Henry’s Auktionhaus http://www.henrys.de/index.php  located in #Mutterstadt, #Germany …. 98km from #Taunnustein, home of Helga Voci, widow of internationally collected #artist #DiegoVoci™.

The dots continue to connect as the DiegVoci™ Project archives all of DiegoVoci™ works of art.  Each painting has a story and provenance as painting change hands with new owners more recently as there was a vacuum of no information for 25 years.  More and more works are becoming available to the market. Help us find them.

To learn more just Google “Diego Voci”.  Also on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dECP7O3ftUo&t=8s

 

Great Artists and Self Portraits

It seems great artists always resort to self portraits, Van Gogh(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Gogh, and Cezanne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cezanne), ,etc. DIEGO, too, (but less often than the others). Here is a profile self portrait and a profile photo.

“Der Kunstler und Sein Model”, oil on canvas, 32″ x 24″ ca. late 70’s

To view a Self Portrait drawing of DIEGO,
http://www.artifactcollectors.com/diego-history- 4330818/Page2.html#47

AC P of W 3/26/12

AC Diego Voci History #24 5/25/2010

Memoriam Newsletter

Thirty years ago, December 10^th  1985, in the village of Taunusstein Germany, the world lost the Internationally collected artist Antonio Diego Voci, a loving husband, an exceptional father, and dear friend to many.

CREATION WAS DIEGO’S LIFE

When not painting, an abundance of creation filled Diego’s life. Whether it be cooking, designing and tailoring clothes or charming people, it all supplemented Diego’s painting and drawing, capturing the miracles in human faces and other great works of art

Diego attended tailoring school in Reggio, learning skills he would apply designing clothes for himself and ladies of his liking. But art was his true love. “I must to paint”. Diego did not heed his father’s advice “The God of art does not give bread”.

Diego would draw incessantly. We believe there are as many as 4,000 works of art by Diego.

Many of these works are yet to be found and catalogued. Yet in the elite art world, Diego Voci remained relatively unknown.

That is changing as his exceptional talent is being discovered by a New Generation.The Diego Voci Project is searching for and cataloguing Diego’s art in the world’s only Diego Voci Archive. Please help us find them all.

Strengthen the Legacy of Diego Voci – Your Photos & Stories about Diego are Needed!

Please send your stories and photos here: http://www.diegovociproject.com/#!/c1s27

Contact us by email here: diegovociproject@gmail.com

 

NEW YORKER CARTOONIST PREDICTED #TRUMP BELLY FLOP.

(Sometime what follows is a big splash)

 

Another case of an artist saying a lot in one drawing.

Courtesy DIEGOVOCIPROJECT.COM 30 Years ago DIEGOVOCI™ died.        His art lives on.

#PrayforParis

THE ART WORLD RESPONDS

 At times of great tragedy, the global community has a history of adopting a particular image or motif as a way of expressing how it feels and conveying what it wants to say about the event – after all, a picture is worth a thousand words, as the old saying goes.

In the case of Friday night’s terror attacks in Paris, that one image is a work by London-based French artist and graphic designer Jean Jullien, which incorporates a rendering of the Eiffel tower into a piece sign motif.

 

Since it was posted by Instagram on its official account page, Jullien’s “Peace for Paris” image has gone viral and been adopted by the world as an expression of grief as well as a call for piece and a symbol of solidarity.

In an interview with the UK’s Telegraph, Jullien said that he created the work after seeing the attacks on the news. “It was my most direct reaction. Usually when I draw I make an image that will make people laugh, or communicate,” he told the newspaper.

Other artistic responses have included a message of peace from Yoko Ono, a series of cartoons by Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Joann Sfar, a sand sculpture by Sudarsan Pattnaik, a drawing by Romanian artist and cartoonist Dan Perjovschi, and a work by American artist Gary Baseman.

Swedish-Portuguese graffiti artist André Saraiva Paris posted a poignant image titled “Standing by Paris,” botanical artist Bridget Beth Collins posted a floral tribute on her Instagram, and Shepherd Fairey posted a work featuring an image and the French flag.

Magnum Photos has also posted a series of photographs by some of its members documenting the aftermath of the attacks while Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist posted a quote by Lebanese-born artist and poet Etel Adnan.

– See more at: http://enfr.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1279187/prayforparis-the-art-world-responds?utm_source=BLOUIN+ARTINFO+Newsletters&utm_campaign=0d02f946f3-Daily+Digest+November+16+2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_df23dbd3c6-0d02f946f3-83386813#sthash.BBtEtzb5.dpuf

Courtesy of the Diego Voci Project:  www.diegovociproject.com.  Diego himself loved Paris and was an inspiration to his paintings.

 

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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