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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Friday, December 23, 2011

The Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque crèche at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a long-standing yuletide tradition in New York, is on view for the holiday season, through January 8, 2012.

Happy Holidays from ARTFIXdaily
ArtfixDaily Staff - December 22nd, 2011 17:12

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One of the Picasso etchings in the Vollard suite, showing a Minotaur with a young woman, a new acquisition of the British Museum.

100 Picasso Etchings Recently Donated to British Museum
ArtfixDaily Staff - December 22nd, 2011 17:12

Picasso's 100 Vollard etchings which document his love affair with Marie-Therese Walter have been donated to the British Museum. The suite of etchings, which was commissioned by Paris art dealer Ambroise Vollard, often depicts Picasso as a bull-headed minotaur with the young Marie-Therese. This rare complete collection from the 1930s is the only one...

A portrait of Hulda Hancock( New York, late 1830s) adorns the mantle behind a sitting area with Federal lolling and easy chairs.

FIREARMS & AMERICANA, January 6-7: GARTH’S ANNOUNCES FIRST SALE OF 2012
Release Date: 21 December 2011
With 465 lots of firearms, bladed weapons and related material to be sold in the same weekend with 600+ lots of fine Americana including formal and painted furniture, folk art, ceramics, fine art and more, Garth’s Auctioneers and Appraisers’ opening sale of 2012, to be held January 6-7, ...

Isamu Noguchi, Knoll Associates, Cyclone dining table, Estimate: $1,000-1,500

Everything Goes When Rago's Holds Its No Reserve Discovery Auction on Friday, January 13 and Saturday, January 14
Release Date: 21 December 2011
1300 LOTS OF WHAT’S DESIRABLE, USEFUL, INTERESTING AND AFFORDABLE. Rago’s Auctions is holding a 1300 lot Discovery Sale over a two-day period, on Friday, January 13 and Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 11 a.m. All of the lots in the Discovery sale are unreserved, meaning that the high bid – ...

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	Brandywine River Museum Acquires Major Painting by Horace Pippin Release Date: 21 December 2011 The Brandywine River Museum recently purchased a major painting by Horace Pippin, the West Chester, Pennsylvania artist of national importance and recognition. Entitled Birmingham Meeting House III, the painting depicts an 18th century Quaker building that still stands four miles south of ... Read more

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