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The National Gallery will display some works with mistaken identities, such as this bogus Botticelli.Museum mistakes exposed in London show
Guardian - April 20th, 2010 19:33
The National Gallery in London will be showing off some embarrassing acquistions and misleading gifts in its major exhibition called Close Examination opening in June. Works once-removed from the gallery's walls for their dubious nature are being exhumed from the vaults. One of the museum's mistake is a lovely Florentine allegorical scene, circa 1500, bought as a Botticelli in 1874. The 'not right' work, which was purchased along with 'Venus and Mars,' a real ...

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Maurice Prendergast, The Grand Canal, Venice, c. 1898—99. Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.123
Stephen May writes of the travelling Maurice Prendergast exhibition featuring the influential American modernist's most dazzling watercolors of Italy. Prendergast soaked in the ...
The Guyette & Schmidt auction is Thursday and Friday.
Folk art and antique decoy collectors have descended upon the 45th National Antique Decoy and Sporting Collectibles Show for room-to-room trading this week at the Pheasant Run Resort in ...
'Counting Down’ (2008) by the Indian artist TV Santhosh.
Auctioneer Simon de Pury tells the Guardian, "I don't think the market is as jittery as you suggest." He cites rapid-fire bidding at last week's Phillips de Pury auction ...
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A new exhibitor at the Los Angeles Antiques Show is New York dealer Carlton Hobbs.Los Angeles Antiques Show
April 21-25, 2010
Presented by Antique Dealers Association of California (ADAC) and Dolphin Promotions
Santa Monica, California
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On May 19, 4 to 8pm, stroll Just Off Madison for an open house at a dozen of New York's leading American art galleries located between 69th and 79th Streets.Just Off Madison: An Open House of American Art at Private Dealers - Galleries celebrate Spring with extended hours - Wednesday, May 19
Release Date: 20 April 2010
  Leading American Art dealers on the Upper East Side will open their doors for the Just Off Madison Spring Gallery Walk, on Wednesday, May 19, from 4–8pm. Coinciding with the American art auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, Just Off Madison gives American art ...

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