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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, February 3, 2010

LACMA publishes archived exhibition catalogs online
Unbeige - Mediabistro - February 3rd, 2010 07:22

Last week, Los Angeles County Museum of Art launched a new "Reading Room" Web feature, which includes complete scans of 10 of their art catalogs, with heavy emphasis on the 1960s. Start looking at one and you'll get hooked almost immediately, particularly the New York School catalog. The museum plans to roll out more catalogs in April...

Dumpster-diving at the Winter Antiques Show
Antiques & the Arts - February 3rd, 2010 06:34

A twilight landscape by Jasper Francis Cropsey came with a metal tag bearing the artist's name and two crosses, an element adding to the painting's value and authenticity. When Alex and Laurel Acevedo of Alexander Gallery went to set up their show booth, the metal tag, waiting to be affixed to a new frame, had been swept away to the trash. The couple raced to the nearest dumpsters and offered a hefty $10,000 reward to anyone willing to find the "needle in a ...

Pablo Picasso. Christie's Images via Bloomberg.

New bidders strengthen London auction
Bloomberg - February 3rd, 2010 06:31

A rarely-seen Pablo Picasso portrait fetched 8.1 million pounds ($12.9 million), twice the presale top estimate, in London last night as telephone bidding from Russian buyers boosted the market for 20th-century European art. Christie’s International raised 76.8 million pounds as it sold 69 of 85 lots. Russian and former Eastern Bloc buyers gave the sale a surprising boost...

Lockwood De Forest landscapes embody quietude
Sullivan Goss - SGTV - February 3rd, 2010 03:16

Ethereal landscapes and nocturnes painted en plein air by Lockwood De Forest (American, 1850-1932) are the subject of a Sullivan Goss Gallery exhibition of works from the artist's estate. A noted interior designer with an Orientalist style, who collaborated with William Comfort Tiffany, De Forest translated his aesthetic sense into oils that perfectly capture the subtleties of light across pastures, coasts, and mountains...

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	Watercolors on Display for the First Time in 20 Years at the Currier Museum of Art Release Date: 01 February 2010 This spring the Currier Museum of Art brings from its vault a magnificent collection of watercolor paintings as it presents From Homer to Hopper: American Watercolor Masterworks from the Currier Museum of Art, from March 6 through June 7, 2010. The exhibition is a highlight of a year-long ... Read more

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