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Gainsborough offered by Lowell Libson at TEFAF. (photo via NY Times)Treasure hunt on in Maastricht
New York Times - March 15th, 2010 02:09
The talk of TEFAF, so far, are a pearl-dropping neoclassical clock, a $25 million Giacometti sculpture, and the new works on paper section including such gems as Gainsborough drawings and Irving Penn photographs. Opening night, some collectors grumbled that there were no big-ticket paintings (ie., $30 million Rembrandts) for sale, even while brand names from Botticelli to Gauguin, culled from private collections and priced in the tens of millions, are offered. TEFAF is on through March 21 in ...

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Vermeer's The Concert was stolen from the Gardner Museum.
Twenty years ago this week, 13 major artworks by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, Manet, and others were swiped from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The world's biggest art heist still ...
Elmyr de Hory's “Odalisque,” in the style of Henri Matisse, 1974, is an oil on canvas.
In 1969, Mark Forgy was a young, backpacking Minnesotan in Europe when he met a debonair Hungarian who happenend to be one of the world's most notorious art forgers. Elmyr de Hory was a master ...
Rare Qianlong c1740 Famille Rose Wall Sconce after a design by Cornelis Pronk. Cohen & Cohen photo via Luxist.
For serious collectors of Chinese export porcelain, TEFAF, the Maastricht art fair going on now through March 21, has some choice examples for sale. Highlights offered by Cohen & Cohen Gallery ...
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Fred TomaselliFred Tomaselli to Speak at ArtTalks—AFA’s Lecture Series
April 13, 2010
American Federation of the Arts / CHRISTIE'S
New York, New York
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George Nakashima, Conoid Bench, 1976, American black walnut, 36 x 24 x 87". photo: Michael J. Joniec. Represented by Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, PA .WITH A SPOTLIGHT ON CUTTING-EDGE CONTEMPORARY DECORATIVE DESIGN, THE SCULPTURE OBJECTS & FUNCTIONAL OBJECTS FAIR OPENS IN NEW YORK AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Release Date: 12 March 2010
  When the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair opens its doors for a four-day run at the Park Avenue Armory with an evening preview on April 15, cutting-edge modern and contemporary design, decorative arts, and jewelry will take front and center stage.  Sixty galleries from the ...

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