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“Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer (on Light Ground),” by Francis Bacon

Bacon Triptych Fetches $45.4m at London Auction
New York Times - July 1st, 2014 00:00

Since Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” (1969) sold at Christie’s for $142.4 million in New York last November a rash of paintings by that Irish-born artist have emerged for sale.

The FBI has arrested a painter in the Hamptons for selling fake Jackson Pollock works.

Jackson Pollock Forger Nabbed by FBI in the Hamptons
NY Post - July 1st, 2014 00:00

Art collectors paid $1.9 million for fake Jackson Pollock paintings — including some splattered works that were audaciously sold on eBay.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills, 1935.

Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life to Open at the Indianapolis Museum of Art This Fall
Release Date: 01 July 2014
An exhibition featuring the works of Georgia O’Keeffe and her contemporaries will open in the Allen Whitehill Clowes Special Exhibition Gallery at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on Nov. 2, 2014. Georgia O’Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life tells the story of the Southwest as seen through ...

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Old Masters & 19th Century Works on Paper on Thursday 24th July 2014.

Original Chalk Drawings of Lost Benjamin West Artwork at Auction
Release Date: 01 July 2014
The original chalk drawings of two lost paintings by American portrait and history painter, Benjamin West, surface at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Old Masters & 19th Century Works on Paper on Thursday 24th July 2014. The black chalk on buff paper of Moses, 1787, [Lot 12] and ...

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