Frieze New York is open and continues until Sunday, 17 May, with Esther running until 16 May and Tefaf running until 19 May. A painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Cupid Complaining to Venus (1526–27), has a complicated provenance and was once in Adolf Hitler’s possession. A photograph showing the work in Hitler’s Munich apartment is reproduced for the first time in an English-language publication, with coverage tracing developments since the 1990s. Ajamu X’s Glamour Posse series from the early 1990s is featured as Work of the Week. The series appears in Gender Stories, a UK touring exhibition opening at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool on 16 May and running until 31 August.
"Cupid Complaining to Venus (1526-27), a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the National Gallery in London has long been known to have a complicated provenance and was once in the possession of Adolf Hitler. In The Art Newspaper 's May print edition, a photograph of the work in Hitler's Munich apartment is reproduced for the first time in an English-language publication."
"In this early 1940s photograph, later published in a 1978 furniture auction catalogue, the Cranach painting is just to the right of the door Auktionskatalog Hermann Historica, Munich"
"And this episode's Work of the Week is the Glamour Posse series from the early 1990s by the British photographer Ajamu X. The work features in Gender Stories, a UK touring exhibition that this week opens at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, and Ben speaks to the head of the gallery, Charlotte Keenan."
"Frieze New York continues until Sunday, 17 May, Esther continues until 16 May and Tefaf is on until 19 May. Gender Stories, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 16 May-31 August."
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