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A Degas Drawing that was reported missing or stolen and recovered by police in the Wildenstein Institute vault.

France Says Guy Wildenstein Owes $330 Million in Back Taxes
ArtfixDaily Staff - February 5th, 2012 20:15

The French government is demanding that prominent art dealer Guy Wildenstein pay €250 million ($330 million) in back taxes. The head of the powerful art dealing family is said to have grossly undervalued his father's estate. Overall, the heirs of Daniel Wildenstein (d. 2001) owe...

Robert Seldon Duncanson, Still Life with Fruit and Nuts, 1848, oil on board, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation and the Avalon Fund

Rare Still Life is First Work by 19th-Century African American Artist Robert Seldon Duncanson to Enter Collection of National Gallery of Art; on View Beginning February 3, 2012
Release Date: 02 February 2012
WASHINGTON, DC—The National Gallery of Art has acquired one of fewer than a dozen known still lifes painted in the late 1840s by African American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872). Classically composed, Still Life with Fruit and Nuts (1848) depicts fruit arranged in a tabletop pyramid ...

Robert Scott Duncanson, The Apennines, Italy Estimate: $30,000-$50,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Presents Inaugural Auction of Works by African American Artists
Release Date: 03 February 2012
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, one of the nation’s leading fine art auction houses, is pleased to announce its inaugural auction of Works by African American Artists on March 1, 2012. In addition to the March 1 auction, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers will hold a separate selling exhibition ...

Detail from Africa: being an Accurate Description of the Regions

Black Americana and Slave History Items Offered for Sale
Release Date: 02 February 2012
Aspire Auctions, Inc., offers a selection of Black Americana and Slave Items in our February online auction. The items range from novelty humidors and boot scrapers to documents such as a Bill of Sale for a slave from 1857 and West African wooden teaching tablets. We are also offering a ...

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