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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Auction Houses Hire Lobbyists to Defeat Resale Royalties Bill
ArtfixDaily Staff - March 24th, 2014 23:56

Major auction houses and internet auctioneers are taking no chances that the American Royalties Too Act, which would pay royalties to visual artists (or their estates) from resale profits at public auctions, will pass in Congress.

Rembrandt Painting Stolen in 1999 Recovered
ArtfixDaily Staff - March 25th, 2014 00:20

Fifteen years ago, thieves took Rembrandt's "Child with a Soap Bubble" from a French museum. Two men, aged 44 and 51, have now been arrested for the theft after...

Lot 1306. Cloisonne Figural of Quan Yin Riding a Qilin. est $3,000-$5,000

The Corbin Collection of Cloisonné Auction
Release Date: 24 March 2014
All of the cloisonné, bark pottery and totai pottery are from one family collection, from southern California. Terrell & Sue Corbin spent a lifetime learning and buying to amass the pieces offered in the current online auction. As Secretary-Treasurer of the Cloisonné Club of America in the ...

Elizabeth Catlett "Standing Mother and Child" Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1072 Society, 2014

University Alumni and Community Enhance Art Collecting Efforts
Release Date: 24 March 2014
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University is adding contemporary sculpture by underrepresented artists to Auburn’s permanent collection. The works include Elizabeth Catlett’s “Standing Mother and Child;” “Downtown Goddess,” by Willie Cole; and Beverly Pepper’s “Curvae in Curvae.” ...

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	Freeman's, America's oldest auction house, continues its expansion with three new hires Release Date: 26 March 2014 Freeman’s, America’s oldest auction house, is continuing to expand. After successfully launching regional offices in Charlottesville, Va., and Boston, Mass., three new hires will now focus attention on other regions. Freeman's was founded in Philadelphia in 1805. Matthew S. Wilcox, former Vice ... Read more

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