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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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 | Pook & Pook offers estate items from esteemed collectors
Philadelphia Inquirer - January 12th, 2010 18:44
Pook & Pook Inc. will celebrate its 25th anniversary Jan. 15-16 with a thousand-lot auction featuring items from the estates of two of Pennsylvania's best-known collectors, H. Richard Dietrich Jr. and Elinor Gordon. Highlights include Gordon's "Home of N.C. Wyeth" by N.C. Wyeth ($50,000 to $100,000) and a bright J.J. Enneking landscape and Dietrich's Pennsylvania or Maryland Chippendale cherry highboy chest decorated with relief bird carvings ($250,000 to $350,000). ...Read more | |
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 | Auction house porters accused of carrying out more than their jobs
Independent - January 12th, 2010 18:35
A closed society of Alpine villagers is at the centre of an art theft scandal which threatens the reputation of the world's oldest auction house. The uniformed, self-governing group of porters called "Les Savoyards" – recruited from a handful of villages in the French Alps – has monopolised all removal and ushering duties at the prestigious Drouot auction house in Paris for 150 years. Eight of them now stand accused of systematically pilfering objects ranging from ...Read more | |
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 | $59.5 million building sale, departures roil Knoedler
Bloomberg - January 11th, 2010 19:20
Established in 1846 and housed for decades in an imposing Renaissance-style mansion on New York’s Upper East Side, Knoedler & Co. is undergoing big changes. Director and president Ann Freedman has departed, the associate director has been fired, there’s been an exodus of important gallery artists, and a move is in the works. Despite the turmoil, a show on Milton Avery’s little-known Depression-era urban scenes will open Feb. 18...Read more | |
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 | In Los Angeles, an urge to purge
New york Times - January 12th, 2010 17:54
For two years the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been quietly buying paintings and publicly selling them. A group of LACMA's old masters, coming up at Sotheby's on Jan. 28, will be sold to raise funds to buy other works such as “Winter Scene on a Frozen Canal” by Hendrick Avercamp, a partial gift to the museum. Newly renovated galleries, and a reshaped collection, are part of a curatorial initiative to evoke the way art was displayed in Roman palaces or English ...Read more | |
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January 14-17, 2010
The 19th Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition
Santa Monica, California
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