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"In the Roses," by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1882, sold by Huguette Clark in 2003.A mysterious heiress, her legacy unknown
MSNBC - February 28th, 2010 22:44
She grew up with a Rodin and Rubens in the home. Now, Huguette Clark, at 103 years old, owns a $100+ million Santa Barbara oceanfront mansion which has been unoccupied since 1963. Her 52-acre New Canaan estate and a 15,000-sq.-ft. Fifth Avenue apartment are empty, too. What is known about Ms. Clark is that her controversial father, whose fortunes in copper rivalled Rockefeller wealth, once owned one of the grandest American collections of European paintings. ...

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Stubbs’ ‘Portrait of a Gentleman’ (1781). Trinity House.
Operating below the billionaire-level of masterpiece buying is the traditional antique business which relies on venues such as the upcoming British Antiques Dealers Assoc. annual fair in Chelsea to ...
Raphael's black-chalk study "Head of a Muse" sold for 29.2 million pounds ($47.6 million) at Christie's International in December 2009.
A Raphael drawing that fetched £29 million, a world record price for an Old Master drawing at auction, has been barred from export by Britain's Culture Minister. A committee determined the ...
Alberto Giacometti's record-setting "Walking Man I" sold at Sotheby's last month.
Dealers say that London-based billionaire Lily Safra was the purchaser of the record-breaking Alberto Giacometti sculpture "Walking Man I" last month at Sotheby's for 65 million pounds ...
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Titian's “Diana and Actaeon” depicts the moment Diana and her nymphs are caught bathing by the hunter Actaeon.Titian’s monumental “Diana” paintings to travel to U.S. for first time for exhibition at High Museum of Art
Release Date: 26 February 2010
  The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), will present an exhibition of 25 masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance—12 paintings and 13 drawings—that will include two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, ...

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