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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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 | Top auction lots of 2009
Bloomberg - December 22nd, 2009 04:11
Collectors responded to the financial crisis by selecting the best 20th-century classics, Old Masters, wine and jewelry at international auctions. They shunned investment in some contemporary art as prices dropped by half and sales fell 75 percent. Notable pieces of modern furniture soared such as Marc Newsom's “Lockheed Lounge” chair for 1.1 million pounds. A Raphael drawing topped auction sale prices for 2009 when it sold for $47.5 million, beating a Matisse still life of ...Read more | |
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 | Birth of the baroque
Guardian - December 22nd, 2009 03:57
Four hundred years ago, Caravaggio stopped off in Naples and an art movement took off. Jonathan Jones writes about how painterly excess and sentiment live on in the modern Christmas. Today's nativity scenes with a baby Jesus in a crib, the presepi, belong to the baroque art movement, born in Italy in about 1600, and the dominant style in European culture for around 150 years.Read more | |
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 | Las Vegas tycoon is secret buyer of $33 million Rembrandt
Times Online - December 22nd, 2009 03:46
The mystery telephone bidder who paid a record $33m (£20m) at Christie's in London for a Rembrandt painting--described as one of the Dutch artist’s greatest masterpieces--was named yesterday as Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas casino owner. Wynn, 67, who once accidentally put his elbow through a $139 million Picasso while showing it off to friends, is estimated by Forbes magazine to have a net worth of $1.5 billion.Read more | |
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 | Drawn from the Ringling's vaults, collection traces its 120-year history
Herald Tribune - December 22nd, 2009 04:24
Curator Virginia Brilliant theorizes that John Ringling bought a collection of more than 300 medieval and Renaissance art from the Vanderbilt family in 1927 for one thing: a 15th-century painting by Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo that depicts the building of a structure that looks surprisingly like Florida's Ringling Museum of Art. The museum's new exhibit, "Gothic Art in the Gilded Age: Medieval and Renaissance Treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling Collection," shows ...Read more | |
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