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Claude Monet, Adolphe Monet in the Garden of Le Coteau at Sainte-Adresse, oil on canvas, 32 1/2 x 39 5/8 in., 1867. Anonymous loan.

Currier Museum Exhibits Rare Loan of Monet Masterpiece from Private Collection
ArtfixDaily Staff - April 2nd, 2013 22:23

One of Claude Monet’s most celebrated early paintings—Adolphe Monet in the Garden of Le Coteau at Sainte-Adresse—is now on view at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, for a limited time. The painting, which has been on public view only once in a museum, remained in the artist’s family until 2004. It will return to...

Beatles Sgt. Pepper Album Sets Auction Record
ArtfixDaily Staff - April 2nd, 2013 22:46

A signed copy of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sold at auction for $290,500, almost doubling the previous record for an album cover from the legendary rock band.

George Inness (American, 1825–1894), Sunrise in the Woods, 1887. Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm). Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Gift of Frank and Katherine Martucci, 2013.1.6

The Clark Recieves Major Gift of George Inness Paintings
Release Date: 02 April 2013
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute announced that it recently received a significant gift of art from New York-based collectors Frank and Katherine Martucci, including an important group of eight paintings by American landscape painter George Inness. The gift of eleven paintings and ...

The top lot of the auction was William Wendt's Patriarchs of the Grove, which made $299,000.

WILLIAM WENDT'S PATRIARCHS OF THE GROVE HITS $299,000 AT COTTONE AUCTIONS
Release Date: 02 April 2013
An original oil on canvas painting by the renowned American artist William Wendt (1865-1946), titled Patriarchs of the Grove (1920), sold for $299,000 at a multi-estate auction held Mar. 22-23 by Cottone Auctions, in the firm’s gallery located at 120 Court Street in Geneseo, in upstate New York. ...

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