Portrait of Frederick (round 1840) attributed to C.R. Parker
Mississippi Museum of Artwork, Jackson
In April this enigmatic portray, one in every of simply two identified portraits of people enslaved in pre-emancipation Mississippi, offered for $508,750 when it appeared at Neal Public sale Firm, New Orleans. The sitter, Frederick, was enslaved by the plantation proprietor Haller Nutt, and his portrait has hung within the Nutt household’s Longwood mansion in Natchez for the reason that late 1860s. “Frederick has change into the stuff of legend for Accomplice apologists and vacationers,” says the historian Katy Morlas Shannon. “Most of what has been stated about him has been invented—both in an effort to clarify why he was chosen to be painted or to whitewash a brutal previous.” The portrait has now been collectively acquired by the Mississippi Museum of Artwork (MMA) and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Artwork. The work is “exceptionally uncommon as a portrait of an enslaved particular person depicted independently of white topics,” says MMA’s inventive director, Chase Quinn.
Du und ich (you and I, 1919) by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany
Du und ich by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff is one in every of 42 works by the German artists’ group Die Brücke which were donated by the entrepreneur and collector Hermann Gerlinger to Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. The donation contains works by Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Gerlinger has been donating his assortment of greater than 1,000 works to museums since 2022. He writes that he first got here throughout Die Brücke works as a pupil: “With my meagre month-to-month allowance, I acquired the primary prints by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.” Du und ich, a spotlight of the Chemnitz donation, is a wedding portrait of Schmidt-Rottluff and his spouse.
Photograph: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano; Courtesy Studio Suki Seokyeong Kang and Tina Kim Gallery
Mat Black Mat 170 x 380 (2022-23) by Suki Seokyeong Kang
Ewha Womans College, Seoul
The household of Suki Seokyeong Kang has donated round 400 works to Ewha Womans College, the place the late Korean artist beforehand studied and later taught, earlier than she died from most cancers in April 2025 on the age of 48. Kang labored throughout portray, efficiency, sculpture and set up, with an abiding curiosity in questioning the position and place of the person inside society. One of many works donated is Mat Black Mat 170 x 380, an set up of three large-scale mats impressed by Korean woven reed mats referred to as Hwamunseok which are utilized in conventional court docket dances. The work was most not too long ago exhibited at Artwork Basel Limitless 2025 by Tina Kim Gallery.
