Both #Gauguin and #Diego expressed their ideas and self reflections on life in the faces and portraits they painted.
Gauguin exhibition going on now at the National Gallery in London. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/the-credit-suisse-exhibition-gauguin-portraits#content
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel (1563). Courtesy of Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery ©KHM-Museumsverband.
Compliments of The Diego Voci Project! Fill your days with Art. Take a look at a #virtual gallery tour: https://youtu.be/taPQlrQmZCY
Diego Voci; Italian Poster was for Theater in #Italy (shared by Mario Voci, Diego’s Nephew)
It would be extremely rare to find a signed #caricature by internationally collected artist Antonio “Diego” Voci, even though, he did thousands. And if he did sign, it would be some form of Voci through 1965.
Caricatures were a source of Diego’s quick money in his early years. Diego was known to complete 20 drawings in one sitting of only a couple of hours. Helga Voci, (Diego’s widow) was his constant companion for 25 years (1960 until his death in 1985).
Helga notes Diego’s caricature experience in her biography “Sometime later I found out that DIEGO was doing caricatures in American Officers Clubs in #France, #Germany and later on also in #London and #Spain. He did wonderful caricatures, it took him only a few minutes to do each one and people were crazy about them, they stood in line waiting for their turn. He made a lot of money with this” https://www.artifactcollectors.com/diego-history-4330818/Page2.html#43754
To own a Diego Voci Lithograph visit; https://www.diegovociproject.com/acquire-graphics-shopping
The museum explores depictions of one of the most recognizable figures in the world.
Kehinde Wiley, Equestrian Portrait of King Phillip II (2009). Photo: Olbricht Collection, Berlin. Photo by Jeurg Iseler. Courtesy of Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York © Kehinde Wiley.
“Michael Jackson: On the Wall,” is on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London from June 27 to October 21, 2018, after which it will travel to Paris, Bonn, and Espoo in Finland.
Michael Jackson is one of the top grossing overall Celebrities of all time!
How would #DiegoVoci portray #MichaelJackson? Diego Voci, Artist of a Thousand Faces! www.diegovociproject.com
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/michael-jackson-npg-london-1310123
#Sotheby’s $146 Million #Contemporary #Art #Auction Reaffirmed the Deep Pockets of #London’s Summer Season!
Work by Peter Doig, Henry Taylor, and Cecily Brown proved there is an abundant appetite for coveted art in #London, even during vacation season.
Peter Doig’s Daytime Astronomy (Grasshopper) (1998-99), est. £6 million to £8 million, sold for £7,674,400. Courtesy of Sotheby’s.
To Read more; https://news.artnet.com/market/sothebys-backs-june-in-london-with-strong-146-million-contemporary-art-sale-1309871
Prices are heating up for Diego Voci; go to Acquire Originals on Diego Voci Project to view recently SOLD items! https://www.diegovociproject.com/acquire-originals
If you thought it was the bottom one you would not be alone. The top painting that sold on February 28, 2017 for $25 million dollars at Christie’s in London is not the typical bold style Gauguin is known for (Google “Gauguin images“).
The lower painting is by Antonio Diego Voci (1920-1985) from the private collection of Patti and Coop Cooprider. Google has selected a few dozen of Diego Voci art works for display in their gallery of Diego Voci Images. Google “Diego Voci” and click “Images”.
Also take a museum tour on YouTube https://youtu.be/GG5Jl-2FuXM
We are the Diego Voci Project, an all volunteer group assisting the Diego Voci Estate spreading the awareness of the great internationally collected artist Diego Voci and cataloging all of Diego Voci’s works of art in the Estate’s Archive.
The presence and recognition of Diego Voci (1920-85) is expanding each day in the world of art.
Here is a recent discovery of a Diego Voci collector Ann Birkhimer whose daughter Karen shares with us their family’s Diego collection.
The beginning…..”During 1972-74 at one of the officers clubs (not sure but may have been Rhein Main) near Wiesbaden, Germany the paintings were purchased. My father was stationed there on three separate occasions, the last being 1972-1976.”
“My mother (Ann) bought them because she just loved them all. One of them is in the cubist style and quite large (my brother has that one) and it was quite unusual that she (Ann) would purchase something so “modern” as she has always tended to be rather traditional in her tastes. The painting is called “Masks”. But, for some reason the painting “spoke” to her and she bought it along with the three other more traditional paintings. Those three all look sort of Spanish or Moroccan.”
The “Masques en blue et rouge” is done in “glass paint” which is unique method of material to use for painting. Here are some other examples of “glass paint” paintings by Diego https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/glass-paint-diegovocitm/
The inspiration for the Spanish “Une Village en Espagna” and Moroccan paintings came from Diego’s love of the people and warmer climates. Here is an historical excerpt from Helga’s (widow of Diego Voci) biography of her and Diego:
“The weather was very bad in London and Diego wanted to go south to the sun. So we decided to go to Spain in October 1961. We took the car and went southward, stopped in several cities and after about 1 month we arrived in the Andalusia region in a very beautiful little fishing village called Almunecar. This was an artist`s colony, all kind of artists from different countries.
We stayed until January 1962. We had a beautiful and very interesting time with long discussions, Diego also made paintings and drawings but he never kept anything, when the painting was finished he was not interested anymore and made presents to friends. He was very popular among the Spanish people also the higher class and he felt wonderful.
In February 1962 we left Spain and went to Morocco, first to Casablanca and Tangier and then he was supposed to go to Marrakech to do some work in an American Officers’ Club. I had to go to Germany for personal reasons, so I flew to Munich while Diego stayed in Marrakech.”
Visit www.diegovociproject.com to view and learn more about Diego Voci.
(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.”
AC P of W #290 11/9/15
“HELGA and DIEGO” by Helga Voci
Helga (here in the image) enjoying the moment in a Paris Bistro.
CHAPTER 3 Paris Summer 1960 to February 1962
“In Paris summer 1960… I got very sick and I was in the Hospital for 3 months. I was very weak when I came out and had lost a lot of weight, so in order to get strong again Diego went with me to South France. We stayed in very good hotels; he made me eat a lot of very good food, a very calm life. At that time he did very beautiful drawings, but he did not keep them, he gave them to people in Hotels or to friends. We stayed there until November 1960.
From there I flew to Munich and stayed some weeks over Christmas in Bavaria with my family while Diego went to London. He rented a beautiful furnished apartment in SoHo. In January 1961, I followed him to London. I studied English and Diego made some paintings and drawings. From time to time he made caricatures in American Officer’s clubs. He did not look for Galleries to make exhibits. When I asked him, he always said: “I`m not ready yet, I have to study more.”
The weather was very bad in London and Diego wanted to go south to the sun. So we decided to go to Spain in October 1961. We took the car and went southward, stopped in several cities and after about 1 month we arrived in the Andalusia region in a very beautiful little fishing village called Almunecar. This was an artist`s colony, all kind of artists from different countries. We stayed until January 1962. We had a beautiful and very interesting time with long discussions, Diego also made paintings and drawings but he never kept anything, when the painting was finished he was not interested anymore and made presents to friends. He was very popular among the Spanish people also the higher class and he felt wonderful.
In February 1962 we left Spain and went to Morocco, first to Casablanca and Tangier and then he was supposed to go to Marrakech to do some work in an American Officers’ Club. I had to go to Germany for personal reasons, so I flew to Munich while Diego stayed in Marrakech.”
AC DV History 6/10/2010 Post #36
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