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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Max Ernst's (1891-1976) "The Stolen Mirror," described as "a surrealist tour-de-force," brought an artist's record price of $16.3 million at Christie's on Nov. 1, 2011.

Record Price for Max Ernst in Spotty Christie's Sale
Reuters - November 2nd, 2011 03:55

Top lots languished in Christie's auction of Impressionist and modern art on Tuesday evening in New York even while several works notably soared above estimates. Max Ernst's "The Stolen Mirror" quadrupled its low estimate to bring...

The 1918 Modigliani painting, "Seated Man With a Cane."

New York Gallery Sued Over Nazi-looted Modigliani Painting
ArtfixDaily Staff - November 2nd, 2011 03:52

A New York City art gallery refuses to return a portrait by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) that a French man claims was his grandfather's until Nazis confiscated it during World War II.

Porphyry Granite, Popeye Birdstone $40,000 - $60,000

Earl Townsend's Native American Artifact Collection at Dan Ripley's Antique Helper Auction, December 3
Release Date: 31 October 2011
Dan Ripley is pleased to announce an important auction of Native American artifacts from the collection of the late Earl Townsend, Jr. The single-owner sale will take place on Saturday, December 3, 2011 at Antique Helper Auctions. According to Artifact Specialist Larry Swann, the auction feature ...

Futzie Nutzle: The Missions
Release Date: 01 November 2011
Gene Oliver Gallery presents a solo show dedicated to California artist Futzie Nutzle. "Futzie Nutzle: The Missions" features a collection of oil and pastels evocative of the long history of the twenty-one California missions built along historic El Camino Real from 1769 to 1823. Futzie Nutzle ...

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	Sarah Lamb Release Date: 01 November 2011 Spanierman Gallery is pleased to announce the opening on November 10, 2011 of Sarah Lamb, presenting new still lifes in the venerable tradition of the eighteenth-century French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and the seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painters of the Golden Age. ... Read more

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