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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, May 17, 2010

Sotheby's sold 'The Effect of Spring at Giverny,' for $15.2 million, the seventh-highest price ever paid for a Monet at auction.

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Wall Street Journal - May 16th, 2010 22:00

Monet, Renoir and Dali are among the artists who have weathered the recession well, according to the Wall Street Journal. New buyers, such as China's emerging wealthy elite, are stepping up to buy pretty pictures by the big names of Impressionism and early Modernists. "Before the crisis, people were buying everything," modern art dealer David Nahmad told reporter Kelly Crow. "Now, they're more selective." Click to read more about who's up and who's down. ...

The Beckhams at the Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2008.

Beckhams build $44 million art collection

Victoria Beckham, the former Spice Girl singer, and her husband David Beckham, the soccer superstar, have reportedly amassed a contemporary art collection valued at £30million ($44 ...

John Haberle's "Torn in Transit" is part of the exhibiton at the Brandywine River Museum.

John Haberle's delightful visual trickery

Only about 40 trompe l'oeil paintings---images that literally "fool the eye"---are known by 19th-century artist John Haberle. The Brandywine River Museum is presenting about ...

Richard Prince's oil from the Halsey Minor collection brought $6.5 million on May 13 at Phillips.

Major works from Minor collection bring $21.1 million

Part of CNet co-founder Halsey Minor's contemporary art collection was hammered down by Phillips de Pury & Co. Proceeds from the $21.1 million sale, the first of three auctions, ...

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