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"Roses for Seagulls that Lost Their Way" by Marsden Hartley. Part of the Bernard Goldberg inventory to be sold by Christie's in New York and estimated at $300,000 to $500,000 at Christie's. Source: Christie's via Bloomberg Bernard Goldberg to close Madison Ave. gallery
Bloomberg - March 4th, 2010 05:27
The successful hotelier and art collector who became a dealer in 20th-century American art, Bernard Goldberg, 77, is exiting the business. His New York gallery's inventory of 175 artworks and furnishings, estimated at up to $10 million, will head to Christie's to be auctioned in several upcoming sales. He says the closure is age-induced as opposed to recession-forced. Among his favorite artworks to be sold is a 1935-1936 oil by Marsden Hartley titled “Roses for Seagulls that ...

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Madonna of the Yarnwinder by Leonardo da Vinci was stolen from the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch in 2003 and recovered in 2007.
A solicitor is on trial in Edinburgh for offering to help return a stolen Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece in exchange for a reward. Marshall Ronald, 53, denies being part of a plot to extort ...
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A landscape listed as the work of 19th c. American artist William Mason Brown was bought at a school fundraising auction by a New Jersey man in 2001. The catalog gave the 25-by-30-inch framed ...
From the new book "Poem of the Pillow and Other Great Stories: Erotic Japanese Art by Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and other artists of the Floating World." Photo: PHAIDON PRESS via Luxist.
Hokusai, Utamaro, and Kuniyoshi are among the most well-known names sought by collectors of traditional Japanese art of the 17th to early 20th centuries. Woodblock prints of the ukiyo-e period are ...
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The Return of the Fishing Boats, Étretat, 1879, by Giovanni Boldini Oil on panel, 5 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (14 x 24 cm) Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts (photo by Michael Agee)"MEDITERRANEAN LIGHT: THE ARTISTIC IMAGINATION OF ITALY" MARCH 14 AT THE CLARK
Release Date: 04 March 2010
Italian artists of the late 1800s, like Italian citizens, struggled to build on the strengths of the past while defining themselves in entirely new ways. Judith Meighan, associate professor in the history of art at Syracuse University, will present the lecture "Mediterranean Light: The ...

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