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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Edgar Degas, 'The Rehearsal', c. 1874. Oil on canvas, 58.4 x 83.8 cm. Lent by Culture and Sport Glasgow on behalf of Glasgow City Council. Gifted by Sir William and Lady Constance Burrell to the City of Glasgow, 1944. Image © Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums).

"Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement" opens at Royal Academy
ArtfixDaily Staff - August 30th, 2011 04:16

A certain crowd-pleaser of an exhibition will be staged by London's Royal Academy of Arts this fall with the debut of "Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement." Edgar Degas's preoccupation with ballet imagery is traced throughout his career, from the documentary mode of the early 1870s to the sensuous expressiveness of his final years. The exhibition, on view Sept. 17-Dec. 11, 2011, will be the first to present the Impressionist artist's progressive engagement with the figure in movement in ...

Edward Willis Redfield, Winter in the Valley, oil on canvas, 36 x 50 in., Reading Public Museum, 1928.68.1

Reading Public Museum Features Works from its Permanent Collection of American Impressionists
Release Date: 29 August 2011
A new exhibition at the Reading Public Museum titled American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony opens September 24, 2011 and continues through January 29, 2012. This comprehensive exhibition features, for the first time, one of The Museum’s greatest strengths — its own ...

Lot 1503 Chinese Bronze Standing Buddha - realized $102,000

Sales Total Over $1.1 Million at Cowan's Inaugural Asian Art Auction August 26-27
Release Date: 27 August 2011
Cowan's is thrilled to announce that its first auction dedicated solely to Asian Art was a huge success. With sales coming in at $1,116,846.25, Wes Cowan and staff could not be happier. "We are delighted with the results of our first Asian art auction. It validated for us the strength of the ...

1929 Camillo Mandelli Violin at Roland Auctions, Sept. 17

Rare Violin and Electric Guitars at Roland Auctions September 17
Release Date: 29 August 2011
NEW YORK CITY. The Camillo Mandelli di Calco violin and the collection of electric guitars going under the hammer at Roland Auctions on September 17 may make for strange bedfellows, but that, according to Roland Auction's president, Bill Roalnd, is both the beauty and opportunity of a well ...

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	31ST ANNUAL BALTIMORE SUMMER ANTIQUES SHOW DRAWS INTERNATIONAL COLLECTORS AND RAVE REVIEWS Release Date: 29 August 2011 The 31st Annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show attracted thousands of knowledgeable collectors and respected dealers from around the world who traveled from as far as Dubai, Brussels and Beijing to purchase from the extensive array of merchandise offered by more than 550 outstanding exhibitors, ... Read more

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