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Frida Kahlo. Magnolias. 1945. Oil on masonite. 41.2 x 57 cm. Private collection.Frido Kahlo retrospective in Berlin
Time - May 10th, 2010 16:31
For someone who has achieved cult status for the way she spilled her guts onto the canvas, Frida Kahlo's work remains wrapped in an aura of mystery. "You can't separate the paintings from her biography," says Helga Prignitz-Poda, the curator of "Frida Kahlo — Retrospective." "But there is always another layer." The show runs until Aug. 9 at Berlin's Martin Gropius Bau museum. One of Kahlo's first paintings, the Self-Portrait in Velvet Dress, ...

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The 1936 Bugatti 57SC Atlantic.
A prized 1936 Bugatti 57SC Atlantic, from a private New Hampshire collection, sold for between $30 and $40 million last week in a transaction brokered by Santa Monica, Calif.-based Gooding ...
Diego Rivera, Stone Workers, 1945. Collection of Pearl and Stanley Goodman.
The walls of the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale are quietly, elegantly pulsating with passion, politics, controversy, violence, magic, humor, grief, longing and hard work. A vivid Diego ...
Patek Philippe sets record price for a gold wristwatch at Christie's in Geneva.
A rare, WWII-era Patek Philippe sold for the equivalent of $5.7 million, the highest price paid for a yellow-gold wristwatch at auction. The 18-karat gold chronograph, from ...
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Nude Wringing Her Hair, 1952, by Pablo Picasso. Private collection. Picasso Looks at Degas
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The Hoffmeisters assembled the greatest collection in the world of highly important Meissen armorial porcelain.The Porcelain of a Pope to Feature in Part Two of the Hoffmeister Collection Auction at Bonhams in May
Release Date: 11 May 2010
In the 300th anniversary year of the founding of the Meissen factory – Europe's first porcelain factory - Bonhams is proud to announce the much-anticipated sale of 'The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part II' at 10.30am on 26th May 2010 at 101 New Bond Street, ...

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