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"L'Entree de Giverny en hiver,'' an 1885 landscape by Claude Monet, sold for 8.2 million pounds at Sotheby's Feb.  8 sale of Impressionist and modern art. Christie's Sale Tumbles Records; Mixed Results at Sotheby's
ArtfixDaily Staff - February 8th, 2012 19:20
Records were smashed at Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, along with The Art of the Surreal auction, in London on February 7. Though not all of the 88 lots sold, new top prices were made for modern masters and Surrealists, for a total take of £134,999,400 ($213,299,052). A slimmer Sotheby's sale on Feb. 8 totaled £78,893,650 ($125 million), led by a winter landscape by Monet that fetched...

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"Simultaneous," ca.  1965, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 inches James Daugherty
Release Date: 09 February 2012
  Spanierman Modern is pleased to announce the opening on February 23, 2012 of James Daugherty, an exhibition and sale comprised of the remarkable abstract color paintings that this important twentieth-century American modernist created during the last twenty years of his life. The show ...

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Charles M.  Russell, Meat for the Wagons (1925), watercolor, 13 1/2 x 21 1/2" The Estates and Families of Ginger K. and Frederic G. Renner Give Major Russell Paintings and Library to C.M. Russell Museum
Release Date: 08 February 2012
The C.M. Russell Museum announced today the gift of two important watercolors by Charles M. Russell (1864–1926) and the personal research library of Frederic G. Renner by the estates of Renner and his wife, Ginger K. Renner, both of Scottsdale, Arizona, and their families. The two watercolors ...

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Berninghaus, Oscar, (1874-1952), Untitled, oil on board, 16 x 20 inches JACKSON HOLE ART AUCTION: An Auction of Past and Present Masters of the American West
Release Date: 07 February 2012
On Saturday, September 15, 2012, Trailside Galleries of Jackson, WY and Scottsdale, AZ, in partnership with the Gerald Peters Gallery of Santa Fe, NM are pleased to present the sixth annual Jackson Hole Art Auction at the Center for the Arts in downtown Jackson Hole.   This annual live ...

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Samella Lewis, Field, 1968, linocut print, 24 x 18 inches, 61 x 45.7 cm, ed.10 Samella Lewis and the African American Experience
February 25 - April 21, 2012
Louis Stern Fine Arts
West Hollywood, California
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M.S.  Rau Antiques and Fine Art has acquired an extraordinary collection of 18th century "étuis" which are decorated using different types of gold and agate.  M.S. RAU ANTIQUES AND FINE ART OFFERS OLD-FASHIONED WAY TO SAY "I LOVE YOU" WITH A FRENCH ACCENT
Release Date: 07 February 2012
  Back in the old days, in the 1750s, the way in which lovers expressed their true sentiments to each other and loved ones was to send a specially scribed message secretly hidden in a tiny "étui," as it's called in French, or a small ornamental case that women also used to carry their small ...

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