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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, December 02, 2009
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 | Vivid pink diamond, Fabergé hammered to new heights
Telegraph - December 1st, 2009 19:37
A Graff ring with a bubblegum pink diamond sold for a record HK$83.5 million ($10.8 million) at a successful Christie's Hong Kong auction fueled by Chinese buying. The potentially flawless stone broke the per-carat record for a diamond. While on the other side of the globe, a re-discovered trove of Fabergé, which belonged to the Romanov family and lay "unknown for 91 years," tallied £7 million, at Sotheby's in London.Read more | |
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 | At Auction: Many Wyeths, pretty Potthast, sultry Sargent, and a great Hassam
Bloomberg - December 1st, 2009 19:48
On the heels of a major Wyeth exhibition at Kansas City's Kemper Museum, Christie's and Sotheby's in New York are offering twenty-two works by N.C. Wyeth, his son Andrew and grandson Jamie, with a combined high estimate of $12.6 million. Sotheby's also has Childe Hassam's exquisite "The White Dory, Gloucester" on Thurs. while today Christie's sells a Sargent portrait and Edward Potthast's pleasant "Bathing Beach--Low Tide" ($800,000 - ...Read more | |
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 | Steady sales buoy Boston art show
Antiques and the Arts - December 2nd, 2009 00:15
With the American Art Fair now in full swing at New York's National Academy, those with high hopes for an American art market recovery may take note of buyers' preferences at the Boston International Fine Art Show in mid-November. A sampling of collectors' picks: Vose Galleries parted with an Edward Henry Potthast view of Gloucester Harbor; Martha Richardson sold a Hermann Dudley Murphy still life; and a Maurice Prendergast left the booth of Debra Force. Laura Coombs Hills was ...Read more | |
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 | Art history books of the year
Telegraph - December 1st, 2009 18:53
Among the Telegraph's picks is the extraordinary "Vincent van Gogh: the Letters: the Complete, Illustrated and Annotated Edition" (www.vangoghletters.org), the inspiring product of 15 years’ research, and Martin Gayford’s "Constable in Love," a romantic account of the muse behind the artist’s familiar landscapes. In "Sleuth," art dealer and Antiques Roadshow expert Philip Mould argues persuasively that the thrilling ...Read more | |
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 | Johan Zoffany: Artist and Adventurer
Release Date: 30 November 2009
Published in December 2009 to mark the bicentenary of the artist’s death. Paul Holberton Publishing is pleased to announce the first comprehensive biography of the portrait painter Johan Zoffany, one of the leading figures of 18th-century British art. Illustrated in full colour with ...Read more | |
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