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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, November 9, 2010

William Wetmore Story (American, 1819 -1895) Medea, 1866. Marble. Gift of the West Foundation in honor of Gudmund Vigtel and Michael E. Shapiro, 2010.91

High Museum receives significant gift of 19th-century American paintings and sculptures
ArtfixDaily Staff - November 8th, 2010 19:18

The High Museum of Art has received a major gift of 90 paintings and sculptures from the Atlanta-based West Foundation’s nineteenth-century American collection. The donated works include 49 paintings and 41 sculptures, establishing the High as a major resource for nineteenth-century American art. The gift enriches the High’s collection of American art with important works including landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church and Jasper Cropsey, portraits by Rembrandt Peale and William Sydney ...

William M. Harnett, "The Golden Horseshoe," 16" x 14"

Shannon's Fine Art Auction Skyrockets to $3.8 Million Dollars--Iconic Harnett Garners $552,000
Release Date: 08 November 2010
On October 28, 2010, Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers held a record-setting auction that highlighted the resiliency of the art market and the appeal of fresh-to-market works from private collections. Fueled by enthusiastic bidders from forty-two states and seventeen countries, the sale resulted in ...

This astonishing 16th-century antique dressoir (or sideboard) was created in Lyon during the height of the French Renaissance, and is the only one of three known examples created that is not held within a museum collection.

Mate to Frick Museum's Carved French Walnut Renaissance Cabinet Acquired by Rau Antiques
Release Date: 08 November 2010
If this "dressoir" could talk... Harpies, satyrs, masks and curvaceous females were all familiar motifs on decorative arts in the 16th century. But what's a harpy? In Greek mythology, a harpy derived its name from the Greek verb "to snatch," and harpies were often depicted in ancient times as ...

Rebecca Gratz was painted in 1831 by the artist Thomas Sully.

Gratz Family Portraits Reunited at Philadelphia’s Rosenbach Museum & Library
Release Date: 09 November 2010
The Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia announces the acquisition of two artistically and culturally significant portraits originally belonging to the Gratz Family, a prominent early American Jewish family who lived in Philadelphia. The paintings include a visually stunning ...

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	PHILLIPS de PURY& COMPANY: SPECTACULAR AUCTION TOTALS $137 MILLION Release Date: 09 November 2010 NEW FLAGSHIP 450 PARK AVENUE HOSTS MOST SUCCESSUL SALE IN THE HISTORY OF THE COMPANY WITH THE TRIUMPH OF CARTE BLANCHE. ANDY WARHOL’S MEN IN HER LIFE SOLD FOR OVER $63,000,000. WORLD RECORDS FOR CINDY SHERMAN, FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, ROBERT MORRIS, RUDOLF STINGEL, THOMAS SCHÜTTE. Phillips de ... Read more

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