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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, July 15, 2010

Munch's iconic Madonna fetches £1.25 million at Bonhams
ArtfixDaily Staff - July 15th, 2010 01:47

A hand-colored Madonna image by Edvard Munch sold for £1.25 million ($1.9 million) at a Bonhams sale in London on Tuesday - twice its lower estimate, making it the the second most expensive print to be sold in the world. An American private collector snapped up the once-controversial artwork which depicts Munch's mistress, Dagny Juel, a femme fatale who, after numerous ill-fated affairs, was shot dead by a young lover in at hotel room at age 33. Munch's Vampire II ...

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Alice T. Friedman, an architectural historian and professor of American art history at Wellesley, has a new book, “American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture” ...

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