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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Stubbs's 1765 canvas "Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, With a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey" sold for $36 million at Christie's in London on July 5.

Record prices for Stubbs, Gainsborough in $80m London sale
Bloomberg - July 5th, 2011 23:27

A George Stubbs painting brought an artist record price of 22.4 million pounds ($36 million) and a Thomas Gainsborough fetched 6.5 million pounds ($10.4 million) in a $80 million Christie’s sale, making it the second-highest total for...

Henri Fantin-Latour, Fruit and Flowers, 1866. Oil on canvas.

Summer exhibitions at Britain's Bowes Museum
ArtfixDaily Staff - July 5th, 2011 19:36

The Bowes Museum of Barnard Castle, an English treasure house built in the French chateau-style by 19th-century art collectors John and Josephine Bowes, has drawn a record number of visitors to its trio of summer exhibitions featuring high-style fashion, ancient Egyptian art, and 19th-century still-life paintings.

Once attributed to Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, one of Leonardo da Vinci's pupils, "Salvator Mundi" is now considered to be by the master himself.

Rediscovered da Vinci painting could hit the market
The Telegraph - July 5th, 2011 19:14

'Salvator Mundi,' previously thought to have been painted by a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, is now deemed by international experts to be by the master himself. It could fetch as much as $200 million...

Cover of Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places (Aperture, 2005).

Interview: Photographer Stephen Shore
Phaidon - July 5th, 2011 16:48

'In the mid-1970s I was once invited for dinner at a friend's loft in SoHo,' recounts Shore. 'At dinner was Ansel Adams. During the meal I saw Ansel drink six tall glasses of straight vodka and...

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