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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, January 11, 2010

“High Point: Shandaken Mountains” (1853), by Asher Brown Durand. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The evolution of American landscape art
New York Times - January 10th, 2010 16:10

New Britain Museum of American Art has installed seven exceptional Hudson River School paintings, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in its permanent collection galleries of artwork from the period. Works by Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and others, present a beautiful, thoughtful and ultimately satisfying little show with much to recommend it. Together they tell an engaging story of the evolution of 19th-century American landscape art.

Liberty Head nickel reaches $3.7 million at auction
MSNBC - January 9th, 2010 23:42

A rare 1913 U.S. Liberty Head nickel that was featured in a 1973 episode of the television series "Hawaii Five-O" was sold for $3.7 million by Heritage Auction Galleries on Thursday. Known as the Olsen-Hawn piece, the coin is one of only five 1913 Liberty Head nickels known to exist. It was purchased by "a sophisticated East Coast collector," said the auction house. Two of the five 1913 Liberty nickels are in museums. The three others are privately owned.

L.A. art dealer accused of selling a phony Picasso pastel
La Times - January 9th, 2010 23:52

Tatiana Khan, owner of the Chateau Allegre gallery in Los Angeles, sold a pastel drawing -- called "La Femme Au Chapeau Bleu" -- which she claimed was a Pablo Picasso owned by the Malcolm Forbes family estate and a bargain at only $2 million, according to court documents. But the buyer became suspicious several years later and contacted a Picasso expert in 2008. Enrique Mallen, director of the On-Line Picasso Project, concluded the work was "not by the hand of Pablo ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber charity strikes secret deal over £30m Picasso
Independent - January 10th, 2010 00:11

A wealthy art charity set up by music impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber has reached a confidential settlement over the ownership of a £30m Picasso portrait with the heirs of a Jewish banker who claimed that he had been forced to sell the painting during the 1930s by the Nazis. The Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation had to withdraw the 1903 "Blue Period" painting "The Absinthe Drinker" from a planned auction in New York three years ago, after descendants of Paul ...

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