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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, January 21, 2010
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Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Pena French, 1808-1876 La Mare au fin d’Orage (Marsh after a storm) Signed lower left: N Diaz Oil on cradled panel 11 3/16 x 14 5/8 inches (28.5 x 37 cm) 15 ¼ x 18 ¾ inches framed Schiller & Bodo European Paintings Highlights: Los Angeles Art Show 2010
ARTFIXdaily - January 21st, 2010 06:47
FADA's Los Angeles Art Show opened last night between raging rainstorms with over 110 international galleries offering about 15,000 works of art, from photography and paintings to video and sculpture. The impressive display, at the enormous Los Angeles Convention Center, is on view through January 24. ARTFIXdaily's photo gallery of show highlights encompasses classics such as a tranquil Barbizon school landscape by Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Pena and contemporary crowd-pleasers like ...

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the Gardner Museum director Anne HawleyGardner's $118 million new wing plans revealed
Boston - January 21st, 2010 01:07
Today, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will unveil the design for an ambitious $118 million expansion created by Italian architect Renzo Piano, a new glass and copper-clad wing that will fundamentally change the way visitors experience the museum. The project, expected to be completed in early 2012, will more than double the size of the museum's footprint, creating a new entrance, music hall, gallery space, and other facilities. 

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Sampson HorneLondon antiques dealer closing shop
Luxist - January 21st, 2010 01:33
One of London's major antiques dealerships, Sampson and Horne Antiques has announced that they are closing and their entire trading stock will be sold at Bonhams on April 28. The company is closing because one of the founders, Jonathan Horne, is ill and the other partner, Christopher Banks, has decided to scale back. The sale will include British folk art and pottery in a wide range of prices and is set to bring in as much as £1 million.

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Georgia O'Keeffe at the Phillips CollectionIn Washington D.C., noteworthy exhibitions to enliven winter days
Washington Examiner - January 21st, 2010 01:59
Sure to have wide appeal, the Corcoran presents "Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davis Collection" and National Gallery of Art opens "From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection," which includes Modigliani's 1919 "Gypsy Woman with Baby." The Phillips Collection will show 100 works by Georgia O'Keeffe while Josef Albers is the subject at the Hirshhorn Museum. Smithsonian American Art Museum opens "Framing the West: The Survey ...

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March 13 - May 24, 2010
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Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) Claire sitting with robe half off (Vivienne).  1993 Silkscreen in colors.  154,3 x 121,4 cmAmerican Pop Art in Berlin - Tom Wesselmann: Of Women and Fruits
Release Date: 18 January 2010
Ketterer Kunst will host the exhibition “Tom Wesselmann - Graphic Works” in its gallery rooms in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 16 February to 13 March 2010.  Next to Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann counts among the most distinguished ...

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