SONJA EISENBERG & STRONG-CUEVAS SELL ABOVE ESTIMATE AT CHRISTIE'S

Sonja Eisenberg's "Sea Change" and Strong-Cuevas' "Out of My Mind" sold above estimate at the September 30, 2015 auction at Christie's. Eisenberg's "Sea Change," a water color measuring 10 x 12.75 inches and completed in 1992, realized a price of $12,500. "Out of My Mind," a 28 x 17 x 10 inch bronze executed by Strong-Cuevas in 1995 sold for $47,500. 

German-born Eisenberg has lived in New York since fleeing Nazi Germany with her family at the age of eleven. Her work is represented in the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), the Jewish Museum of Art (New York, NY), the official collection of the United Nations (New York, NY) and dozens of public and private collections. Her paintings have been exhibited widely across the United States and in France, Israel, Japan, Amsterdam, Austria, England, Switzerland and her native Germany. Her retrospective will be held October 7 to November 1, 2015 at Leonard Tourné Gallery.

Born in Paris, Strong-Cuevas lives and works in New York, where she studied under John Hovannes at the Art Students League of New York and worked on projects with Toto Meylan. Her work has been exhibited in dozens of solo and group exhibitions, including the IIème Biennale de Sculpture in Monte Carlo, Monaco, and is represented in the collections of the Bruce Museum (Greenwich, Connecticut), Heckscher Museum (Huntington, New York), Guild Hall Museum (East Hampton, New York), Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, New Jersey) and the Smithsonian-affiliated Long Island Museum (Stony Brooke, New York).

The most recent auction results follow the sale of Strong-Cuevas' "Windows," a bronze completed in 1998, at Christie's in July 2015 and her 1981 bronze, "One Eye Wall," at Sotheby's in June 2014. Leonard Tourné Gallery will open a solo exhibition for Strong-Cuevas on November 15, 2015, coinciding with the launch of her book, Premonitions in Retrospect (Abrams 2015).

For additional information, please contact Leonard Tourné Gallery at (212) 219-2656 or info@leonard-tourne.com.

VISIONARY COINCIDENCE: WORKS BY STRONG-CUEVAS AND CHRISTOPHE VON HOHENBERG OPENS OCTOBER 1 AT LEONARD TOURNÉ GALLERY

VISIONARY COINCIDENCE: WORKS BY STRONG-CUEVAS AND CHRISTOPHE VON HOHENBERG

OPENS OCTOBER 1 AT LEONARD TOURNÉ GALLERY

NEW YORK, NY – September 22, 2014 – Leonard Tourné Gallery is pleased to present "Visionary Coincidence," an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by Strong-Cuevas and photography by Christophe von Hohenberg. The exhibition opens October 1, 2014.

Strong-Cuevas' work explores inner consciousness, outer space and communication through space and time. In the words of distinguished art critic Donald Kuspit, "Strong-Cuevas's sculpture is rooted in primitive art, with its bold structures, expressive directness, communal symbolism, and conviction of cosmic absolutes. It is also rooted in Cubism, with its awareness of the dialectical ambiguity of appearances, perhaps most evident in Picasso's use of frontal and profile views of the face in a single image, at once integrating them yet allowing them their difference. Primordial expression and sophisticated perception are the alpha and omega of modern art."

Born in Paris, Strong-Cuevas lives and works in New York, where she studied under John Hovannes at the Art Students League of New York and worked on projects with Toto Meylan. Her work has been exhibited in dozens of solo and group exhibitions and is represented in the collections of the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut; Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York; Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York; Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey; and the Smithsonian-affiliated Long Island Museum in Stony Brooke, New York.

Christophe von Hohenberg is a portrait, documentary and lifestyle photographer. In 1979, he was discovered by American Vogue and his photographs were displayed in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Since then, he has worked with such publications as Interview, Art Forum, Vanity Fair, Geo, German Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Fortune, Hamptons Magazine, German Vogue and French Vogue.  His book, Another Planet: New York Portraits 1976-1996, was published in 2014 following his critically acclaimed Andy Warhol: The Day the Factory Died, which received the Photo District News Photo Book Award and the AIGA Book Award in 2007.

In addition to the MoMA, von Hohenberg's work has been displayed at the Gray Art Gallery, the Stephen Keszler Gallery, Affirmation Arts and Staley-Wise Gallery in New York, New York; the Rudolf Budja Gallery in Salzburg, Austria; the America House Cultural Center in Munich, Germany; the Goss Gallery in Dallas, Texas and Aretha Campbell Fine Art in London, England. His exhibitions have been reviewed in German Vanity Fair, English Vogue and The Daily Telegraph. Born in New York, von Hohenberg currently lives in New York and Mexico City. His photographs can be found in private collections in the United States, Europe and South America. 

Visionary Coincidence Opening Reception