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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, November 02, 2009

A Revelation: The letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Telegraph - November 1st, 2009 18:40

Van Gogh’s 800 letters to his brother Theo take us to a place where even the most detailed biography can’t go. A newly translated, fully annotated and copiously illustrated edition has been in preparation for 15 years. Beautifully produced by Thames & Hudson in six volumes (and free online at www.vangoghletters.org), it supersedes all others. It is the art publishing event of the decade.

A Distant Bauhaus Star: Margarete Heymann was ahead of her time
New York Times Art - November 1st, 2009 17:24

Margarete Heymann was a gifted ceramicist who had a falling out with the director of the Bauhaus school and now is largely ignored in the influential 20th century design school’s “official’' history. Her work was original, functional, very beautiful and remarkably advanced for its time. The reasons for her obscurity tell us as much about why some people are cast as winners — and others as losers — in design history, as about the Bauhaus and Ms. Heymann herself.

Shine On: New Versailles exhibit reflects Sun King's glory
Cape Cod Times 2 - November 1st, 2009 12:46

Hundreds of long-dispersed portraits, sculptures and tapestries celebrating Louis XIV have returned to Versailles. The exhibit "Louis XIV: The Man and the King" gives visitors the 17th-century ruler in all his varied incarnations. A massive oil painting shows the cherub-faced child who ascended to the throne at age 5. Imposing marble busts extoll the steely-eyed "Louis the Great," whose iron-fisted leadership helped forge the modern French state.

Closet Clean-up: Lost Warhol self-portrait may fetch $1 million
AP - November 1st, 2009 19:16

On Nov. 11, Sotheby's is auctioning a self-portrait by Andy Warhol that was recently found after being forgotten in a closet in New York City for more than 40 years. The painting belongs to Cathy Naso. She was 17 years old when she got a part-time job as a receptionist at Warhol's Factory. Two years later, in 1967, Warhol gave her a self-portrait and the Brooklyn resident stashed it away in her closet...

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