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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, February 8, 2010

Kansas museum to get infusion of Impressionists
Kansas City Star - February 8th, 2010 05:12

Long renowned for its Chinese art collection, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will eventually become a destination for French impressionism as well. Friday the museum announced a promised gift of 29 works by impressionist masters such as Renoir, Monet and Seurat from the collection of longtime museum supporters Marion and Henry Bloch (co-founder of H&R Block). The museum's yearlong drive for gifts brought in a total of 400 works from 75 donors.

Palm Beach show season starts strong
Artdaily - February 8th, 2010 03:06

Last Tuesday evening, a record 5,100 collectors thronged the American International Fine Art Fair opening Vernissage honoring the Norton Museum of Art at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. A few of the big-ticket sales included Eugene von Blaas’s “Conversation on the Terrace, Venice” priced at $1 million (Richard Green Gallery), a $750,000 Andrew Wyeth painting (Surovek Gallery), and Tom Wesselman’s “Monica Lounging on 1 Elbow ,“ priced ...

SFMOMA antes up
Los Angeles Times - February 8th, 2010 05:24

News that the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has raised $250 million in the last six months for an expansion of its building and program is nothing if not jaw-dropping. The first $100 million of the pledge will go toward doubling SFMOMA's endowment. Perhaps a fund-raising motivator: The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection of modern and contemporary art, with 1,100 works by mostly high-profile New York and European artists, will be on a long-term loan lasting 100 years...

Part of Crichton's art trove going under gavel
Independent (UK) - February 8th, 2010 03:36

Best-selling science fiction writer Michael Crichton, creator of TV's ER drama and film-adapted books such as Jurassic Park, also left the legacy of a first-class art collection. Two years after his death in 2008, four of his privately-held paintings, worth an estimated £20m, are to be put up for sale at Christie's in May. Among them is Jasper Johns's iconoclastic "Flag"...

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