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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Winslow Homer's 1885 watercolor "Children Under a Palm Tree."

Winslow Homer watercolor sparks dispute
The Independent - June 21st, 2011 21:36

An 1885 watercolor by American artist Winslow Homer was found in a trash pile by a fisherman and his daughter in Ireland in the 1980s. They discovered it was worth £150,000, and consigned it to a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2009. After the auction catalog came out, the painting's original owners claimed the work, titled Children Under a Palm Tree, belonged to them and the sale was stopped. For two years, a legal stand-off has ensued over the painting's rightful ownership. Homer ...

Marsh-bird brooch, 1901–02, Charles Robert Ashbee.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to Open New Jewelry Gallery

As the saying goes, “diamonds are a girl’s best friend”—at least in modern times—but as the exhibition Jewels, Gem, and Treasures: Ancient to Modern illustrates, ornaments made ...

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	George M. Bruestle - Native Ground Release Date: 21 June 2011 The Cooley Gallery is pleased to announce "George M. Bruestle ~ Native Ground," an exhibition and sale on view from July 16th through August 13, 2011. Sometimes intimate in scale and mood and at other times sweeping in their breadth, the always vibrant paintings of George M. Bruestle have long ... Read more

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