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"Le Palais Contarini," a 1908 oil-on-canvas by Claude Monet sold for 19.7 million pounds (about $30.8 million) at Sotheby's.

Nahmad Family Monet Tops Sotheby's Near-$200 Million Sale Series
ArtfixDaily Staff - June 20th, 2013 22:36

Sotheby’s London Impressionist & Modern Art summer sales series concluded on June 20 with a combined total of £127,557,000 / $199,325,581. The top lot of the $165 million evening sale was Claude Monet’s...

Abbott Handerson Thayer, Angel, 1887, oil on canvas; 36 1/4x 28 3/8 inches, 1929.6.112. Gift of John Gellatly. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

Two New Exhibitions Open June 29 at Crystal Bridges
ArtfixDaily Staff - June 20th, 2013 22:36

June 29 marks the opening of two new exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. A traveling exhibition, Angels and Tomboys: Girlhood in Nineteenth-Century American Art explores the myriad ways artists portrayed young girls: from the sentimental, innocent stereotype to the free-spirited individual. In the aftermath of the Civil War, the American girl seemed transformed—at once more introspective and adventurous than the previous generation. Although ...

Jan Groover. Untitled, 1980. Platinum print. David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1981, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1981.1077). © Jan Groover

'Everyday Epiphanies' Opens June 25 at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date: 20 June 2013
Since the birth of photography in 1839, artists have used the medium to explore subjects close to home—the quotidian, intimate, and overlooked aspects of everyday existence. Everyday Epiphanies: Photography and Daily Life Since 1969, an exhibition of 40 works at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...

Alexander Calder with his work Teodelapio, 1962, in Spoleto. Right: Fausto Melotti, Insonnia, 1964.

Calder & Melotti: Children of the Sky
Release Date: 19 June 2013
Ronchini Gallery is proud to present Calder & Melotti: Children of the Sky, 11 October - 30 November 2013, in collaboration with Museo Carandente Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy, curated by Director Gianluca Marziani. The exhibition features works by American artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976) ...

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	Gianguan Auctions June Sale Offers Many Facets of Chinese Art Release Date: 19 June 2013 With a slate of more than 300 items going off in two sessions on June 30th, Gianguan Auction’s Summer Sale marks the first time Internet bidders will be able to place bids direct through the Gianguan Auctions website. Two unusual Fu and Shou character-from sancai ceramic ewers of the Qing ... Read more

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