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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Sold for $1.6 million from Galerie Michael Schultz at Art Miami, Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild, 2001, oil on aludibond, 19 1⁄2 x 28 1⁄2 inches.

Record Attendance, Heady Sales at Miami Art Week
ArtfixDaily Staff - December 6th, 2011 05:19

The tenth edition of the largest contemporary art fair in the U.S., Art Basel Miami Beach drew a record 50,000 visitors while the city's anchor fair, Art Miami, more than doubled its collective sales figures over last year and achieved a record gate of 55,000.

Édouard Manet’s “Portrait of Madame Brunet” was acquired by the Getty.

Significant Acquisitions for Getty Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily Staff - December 5th, 2011 23:29

Earlier this year, the Getty Center acquired a significant work by renowned French painter, Édouard Manet. This week, it will go on view. The oil painting, entitled “Portrait of Madame Brunet,” is characteristic of Manet’s early Realist style and dates from the period when he created his two most famous works, “Luncheon Upon the Grass” and “Olympia.”

Study of Legs and Arm Movements for a Dancer with a Tambourine, 1882, an image from Vingt Dessins, a portfolio of heliograph prints of twenty drawings by Edgar Degas hand-chosen by Degas to be reproduced for the limited edition of 100 albums. The portfolio was published in 1898 by art dealer Michel Manzi.

Hill-Stead Museum Presents Wonders Revealed, an Exciting New Winter Exhibition of Rarely Seen Prints
Release Date: 06 December 2011
Hill-Stead Museum is pleased to offer, for the first time, a comprehensive show of prints in its vast and varied collection. Wonders Revealed: Rarely Seen Original Prints by Degas, Goya and Others from Hill-Stead’s Collection opens to the public on Friday, January 8 and continues through March ...

Philippe Grandjean, Punches for the Romain du Roi types (Paris, 1693) © Imprimerie Nationale de France, Atelier du Livre d’Art et de l’Estampe. Courtesy of the Grolier Club, New York.

Printing for Kingdom, Empire, & Republic: Treasures from the Archives of the Imprimerie Nationale
Release Date: 06 December 2011
From December 7, 2011 to February 4, 2012, The Grolier Club of New York will devote both its upper and lower galleries to an unprecedented public exhibition on the history of the French national typographic and printing establishment, the Imprimerie Nationale, arguably the most important ...

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