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"Lady Blunt" Stradivarius violin sold for nearly $16 million on June 20 by auctioneer Tarisio.

Stradivarius violin soars to record $15.9 million
ArtfixDaily Staff - June 21st, 2011 04:14

A Stradivarius violin from 1721 sold to an anonymous bidder for a record price of £9,808,000 ($15,894,000) in an online auction on Monday. All of the proceeds from the sale will go directly to aid victims of the Japan's earthquake and tsunami. Dubbed ‘Lady Blunt’ for its thirty-year ownership by Lady Anne Blunt, granddaughter of the poet Lord Byron, the instrument is said to be in remarkable condition with most of its original features and varnish largely intact. Auctioneer ...

"Celebrating in the Golden Age" will be at the Frans Halls Museum, Nov. 11, 2011 to May 6, 2012.

Celebrating in the Golden Age
Release Date: 20 June 2011
This winter it’s party time at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, Holland. Celebrating in the Golden Age showcases a highly popular subject in seventeenth-century art. Painters like Jan Steen and Frans Hals portrayed countless merry-making folk and lively companies, from peasant fairs and ...

Jason Larkin, Museum_11, Giclee print, 30 x 30 inches, collection of the artist

New Exhibition at the Farnsworth: Jason Larkin—Past Perfect. The 2011 Arnold Newman Award Winner Exhibition
Release Date: 17 June 2011
(Rockland, ME) On Saturday, July 2, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, will open the second annual Arnold Newman Prize Winner Exhibition: Jason Larkin: Past Perfect. The exhibition will run through November 27, 2011. The primary media sponsor for the exhibition is Maine Home + Design. ...

CAROLINE KERRIGAN LERCH NAMED SHOW DIRECTOR FOR INAUGURAL METROPOLITAN SHOW, 125 WEST 18TH STREET, JANUARY 18-22, 2012
Release Date: 20 June 2011
Caroline Kerrigan Lerch was named Show Director for the Metropolitan Show, it was announced by Mark Lyman, President of the Art Fair Company. The inaugural fair, which debuts January 18-22, 2012, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, at 125 West 18th Street in Chelsea, replaces The American Antique ...

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	Forum Gallery presents Megan Rye "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" Release Date: 20 June 2011 In the first New York solo exhibition of her paintings, I Will Follow You Into the Dark, Megan Rye offers an insider’s look at the war in Iraq though a series of extraordinary and intimate perspectives. The exhibition will be held at Forum Gallery from June 6 through July 15, 2011. Based ... Read more

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