#LEONARDO #DAVINCI #LOUVRE #PARIS #2019

Compliments of The Diego Voci Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Diego_Voci

23 ESSENTIAL NYC MUSEUM SHOWS TO SEE THIS FALL!

Installation view, “Paris, Capital of Fashion” at FIT Museum. Courtesy of FIT. https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/new-york-museum-shows-fall-2019-1630744

7 #TREASURES SAVED IN #NOTREDAME #FIRES

A picture taken on April 16, 2019 shows the altar surrounded by charred debris inside the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in the aftermath of a fire that devastated the cathedral. – French investigators probing the devastating blaze at Notre-Dame Cathedral on April 15, 2019, questioned workers who were renovating the monument on April 16, as hundreds of millions of euros were pledged to restore the historic masterpiece. As firefighters put out the last smouldering embers, a host of French billionaires and companies stepped forward with offers of cash worth around 600 million euros ($680 million) to remake the iconic structure. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) (Photo credit should read LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images)

To see more:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/7-artworks-and-relics-survived-notre-dame-fire-1518991

Check out #history of DIEGO Treasures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Diego_Voci

#DIEGO SHARES COUNTERFEITING #RODIN #SCULPTURES IN #PARIS!

The Kiss 1901-4 Auguste Rodin 1840-1917 Purchased with assistance from the Art Fund and public contributions 1953 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N06228

To Read More:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rodin-dealer-sentenced-over-alleged-fakes-1524400

To Learn about Diego; visit Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Diego_Voci

A RARE DIEGO MOMENT CAPTURED…

…In 1972, 12 years after Helga Drössler was introduced to Diego in Paris at the famous artist filled café, Les Deux Magots.  Diego and Helga remain intimately connected with each brushstroke until his death in 1985.  In this great candid photo in his home studio in Schwetzingen, Germany, Diego had already painted over 1000 oil paintings on canvas with Helga.  Diego is intent and surrounded by all that he truly loved, his paints, brushes, a canvas and most importantly, his wife Helga.  (VOH-chee)    https://youtu.be/_WUYmz0Jkc0 

This letter was written by Helga Voci, widow of Diego Voci. She sent this letter when she sent the photo of the two of them.

DIEGO #VOCI AND #PARIS!

 

Helga Voci, widow of Diego Voci shares her words:

“It was late 1960, DIEGO was living in a small Hotel near the Seine, he did not really work, just a few sketches from time to time and I was wondering how he was financing his living. He made a big secret about his finances.”

During this time period in 1960, Diego signed his works “Voci“.  At the time, he never foresaw later having a 20 year career signing “Diego”.

To read more click here: https://www.artifactcollectors.com/the-story-of-diego-voci-part-2-572.html

 

3 OUT OF 12 #CONTROVERSIES #WORTH A #LOOK!

3. The #Guggenheim Offers #Trump a #Golden #Toilet

America, a fully functioning gold toilet by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on September 15, 2016. 

8. #Paris Protests—and Then Reluctantly Accepts—Jeff #Koons’s #Bouquet 

Rendering of Bouquet of Tulips (2017). ©Jeff #Koons. 

11. Where Is #SalvatorMundi?

A visitor takes a photo of the painting Salvator Mundi by #Leonardo #daVinci at #Christie’s #NYC

Read the details:

These Are The 12 Biggest Controversies That Rocked the Art World in 2018

Read the details Month by Month in 2018 about #DIEGO:

https://www.diegovociproject.com/archived-newsletters

#FRANCE DINGS TAXPAYERS A BILLION DOLLARS TO SEE #ART

Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris; 

The Louis Vuitton Foundation in #Paris has been called a “gift to France.” But according to some critics, the private museum founded by billionaire art collector Bernard Arnault was a gift that came at a spectacular cost to French taxpayers. Now, an anti-corruption group has filed a complaint accusing the foundation of fraud and tax evasion in the Court of Auditors in #Paris, France’s financial taxation watchdog.

The final construction cost of the Frank Gehry-designed building on the edge of #Paris was nearly €790 million (around $900 million), according to French media, seven times the original estimate when Arnault first announced the project. This figure has been revised significantly upward since the museum first opened in 2014. At that time, the New York Timesreported that the cost was closer to $135 million. (The foundation declined to comment to artnet News about the final cost.)

Read rest of article here: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louis-vuitton-foundation-fricc-1406812

View this video about an Artist of a Thousand Faces “Artist of Thousand Faces” https://youtu.be/dECP7O3ftUo

 

 

ANOTHER #HIDDEN #GEM IN DIEGO’S #MAILBOX

Diego Voci; “Clown” with Frame 38″x 22″ oil on canvas

Gerald Basinger shares;

“I only recently was aware of your DIEGO VOCI project and would like to contribute my experience.

I was stationed with US Army 16th Aviation Bn. in Nellingen W. Germany from 1968-1970 and became acquainted with Diego at the Officers Club at Patch Barracks where he had one of his art exhibitions. Although he did not have a Clown painting there, I had seen his work with that subject elsewhere. Since I was making a driving trip vacation to Paris from my military accommodation near Stuttgart and he was living close to the route I would be driving I contracted for him to paint a CLOWN (Oil on canvas).  I do not recall the specific name of his location where he was living.

Anyway, the experience of going to his place, in the summer of 1970, and watching him start from a blank canvas and over a 2 hour time period to see his amazing, actually incredible, speed and skill with the brush was something I will never forget. I am not kidding that at least 4 or 5 different times he could have said I am done and I would have been just thrilled with what I saw. But he would say “I want to work on this a bit” and a new and different clown would appear. Be it a hair change, a different necktie, a change in the eyes, or mouth. What a genius. Because I returned to the USA in October 1970 I had no other contact with Diego.

However, I have had numerable favorable comments over the years with that piece of art in my homes. With regards”

Visit Diego Voci’s Clown Board on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/clowns-diegovocitm/

FROM #BRUEGEL IN #VIENNA TO #BASQUIAT IN #PARIS!

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel (1563). Courtesy of Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery ©KHM-Museumsverband.

From Bruegel in Vienna to Basquiat in Paris, Here Are 38 Must-See Museum Shows Worth Traveling for This Fall 

Compliments of The Diego Voci Project! Fill your days with Art. Take a look at a #virtual gallery tour: https://youtu.be/taPQlrQmZCY