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Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, is hosting an exhibition of 12 rare, mammoth-plate photographs by 19th century American photographer Carleton Watkins from September 5 through October 19, 2019.According to the gallery, the exhibition includes dramatic views of a still little-known Yosemite Valley, the Columbia River in Oregon, and a near-surreal depiction of Mission San Luis Rey in Southern California, located in an empty expanse. Other images include an overview of the burgeoning city of Portland, Oregon in 1867, and deer grazing on the grounds of a Menlo Park estate in the late 1870s. Watkins’ large-formatalbumen prints were among the largest photographs of…

Sotheby’s Paris will host the auction “Le Soleil de Nuit, Tresors Precolombiens d’une Grande collection Francaise” on October 30, 2019.The collection belongs to the estate of a lifelong collector. It includes the art of many eras and styles, ranging from masterpieces of 17th and 18th decorative arts, natural history, to 20th design and Modern art.The highlights of the collection are a group of four Teotihuacan stone masks in both luminous tecali, (the Mexican alabaster), and dark greenstone and serpentine. Two of the masks were formerly in private American collections of the 1950s and 1960s and exhibited at the Art Institute of…