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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Surrealist Price Surge in $19 Million Sotheby's Sale
ArtfixDaily Staff - December 18th, 2011 14:50

Last week, Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern art evening sale reached its high-end estimate, totaling $19.3 million. Three pieces by the German Surrealist Max Ernst (1891-1976) drew the biggest bids. Ernst's scene of bizarre battling characters drew...

UK Dealers Bemoan EU Art Tax; US Lawmakers Introduce Droit de Suite Bill
BBC News - December 19th, 2011 10:30

British art dealers are lamenting the enforcement this January of a "droit de suite" which provides artists' heirs - within 70 years of their death - with a percentage of the re-sale price of their work. Also, a droit de suite bill to provide living artists with resale royalties for auctioned works was introduced last week in the U.S. Congress.

Mapping Massachusetts, 1600-1750
Release Date: 18 December 2011
The first century and a half of Massachusetts mapmaking saw a distinct shift in emphasis from piecing together the geography of eastern New England, to documenting the early years of settlement, and finally supporting Massachusetts’ aggressive territorial claims. These historical maps, ...

Fern Coppedge, "October," 16 x 16 in., oil painting (1930's).

Fern Coppedge Painting Found At Hot Dog Stand Auctioned For $30,000 By West Highland Art Auction Brokers & Freeman's Auctions
Release Date: 18 December 2011
In May, 2011, a man with a small but pleasant oil painting titled "October," fresh from a New Jersey estate, walked up to the owner of a hot dog stand in North Carolina. Alison Bledsoe, the hot dog lady, looked at the dirty landscape of a bridge, some yellow leafed trees and some brightly ...

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