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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, December 14, 2009

Sargent's Daughters of Edward Darley Boit at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Book review: "Sargent's Daughters"
New York Times - December 14th, 2009 00:19

The Edward Darley Boit family was from New England, but John Singer Sargent painted the four daughters in the foyer of a grand Paris apartment, deliberately situating them in a locus of uncertainty — perpetually on a threshold, like their roving expatriate parents. Sargent makes you feel simultaneously drawn into and excluded from the sisters’ world, a phenomenon that Erica E. Hirshler, a senior curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, explores in her new book, ...

Cucci Cabinet commands £4.5 million
Mail Online - December 14th, 2009 01:35

An ornate cabinet from the era of the Sun King has become one of the most expensive pieces of furniture ever sold. The Cucci Cabinet - one of just three cabinets crafted by Italian artist Domenico Cucci during the reign of French King Louis XIV - fetched more than £4.5 million at Christie's in London. Dating from around 1665 to 1675, the cabinet is one of just three known to have survived from the master craftsman's hands.

John Sloan, "Fourteenth Street at Sixth Avenue" Detroit Institute of Arts.

Re-discovered John Sloan WPA work journeys from trash to museum
Chicago Tribune - December 13th, 2009 23:55

A painting created by American artist John Sloan 75 years ago and missing for 65 of them now hangs on a wall inside the Detroit Institute of Arts. Sloan painted "Fourteenth Street at Sixth Avenue" in 1934 for the Public Works of Art Project, which was created to employ artists during the Great Depression. Four years later, it vanished. The painting's wily provenance includes a congressman who pulled it from the trash pile.

Texas museum acquires a rare Bonington
Star-Telegram - December 14th, 2009 04:32

The Kimbell Art Museum has purchased---through art dealer Richard Feigen---a painting of Venice’s Grand Canal by British artist Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828). "Bonington was one of the true giants of English landscape painting on a par with Turner and Constable yet not as well known as those artists as he died young and left a small number of works," said Eric M. Lee, the Kimbell’s director. "He was doing things the Impressionists would do 50 years ...

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