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Tamara De Lempicka, Le téléphone II, 1930. Oil on board, cm 34.9 x 26.9. Private Collection

New book reveals Tamara de Lempicka - The Queen of the Modern
ArtfixDaily Staff - June 27th, 2011 22:46

A cosmopolitan painter and icon of the art deco movement, Tamara de Lempicka (Polish, 1898-1980) created images that became the symbols of the era stretching from the roaring 1920s through the tumultuous 1930s.

Princess Diana dancing with John Travolta. Courtesy of Waddington's

Princess Diana gown swept to $800K at auction
ArtfixDaily Staff - June 27th, 2011 05:40

A bidder paid $800,000 (CAN) for a gown that Princess Diana memorably wore when she spun around the dance floor with actor John Travolta at a White House state dinner in 1985. It was the top lot among 14 dresses owned by the late Princess of Wales offered at Waddington's...

Tiffany Studios Lamps and Glass at Masterpiece London
Release Date: 22 June 2011
Lillian Nassau LLC is pleased to be exhibiting, for the first time, at the Masterpiece London Fair, from June 30th to July 5, 2011. For over sixty-five years, Lillian Nassau has been the pre-eminent dealer in the work of Tiffany Studios and the Art Nouveau period. Mrs. Nassau, with her ...

Portrait of a Man and Woman in an Interior, painted about 1666, by Eglon van der Neer (Dutch, 1634–1703). Oil on panel. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Seth K. Sweetser Fund.

Provenance Research by MFA Boston Results in Agreement to Retain Ownership of Van Der Neer Portrait
Release Date: 27 June 2011
Research conducted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), about the provenance, or history of ownership, of its painting Portrait of a Man and Woman in an Interior (1665–67) by Dutch artist Eglon van der Neer (1634–1703), has led to an agreement with the estate of German art dealer ...

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	THE FIGURATIVE LANDSCAPE, A TRADITION IN PROVINCETOWN PAINTING: Edwin Dickinson, Ross Moffett, Tony Vevers and Richard Baker June 27 - July 2, 2011 ACME Fine Art Boston, Massachusetts Read more

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	SUNRISE SUNSET Release Date: 25 June 2011 Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery presents SUNRISE SUNSET, a collection of luminous landscape paintings that capture the extraordinary effects that attend the passage between day and night. SUNRISE SUNSET is an exhibition of diurnal rhythms and transitional light covering over 130 years of ... Read more

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