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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Preview of The American Art Fair, New York City, Nov. 28 to Dec. 1, 2011

Ernest Lawson (1873-1939) Washington Square Park, c. 1910. Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches. Signed Lawson lower right. Inscribed To my friend Ferdinand, E Lawson, lower right center. Courtesy of Thomas Colville Fine Art.

The American Art Fair moves to a new venue as it celebrates its fourth year and will be held November 28-December 1, 2011 at the Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York City. The gala preview on Sunday, November 27 marks the beginning of American Paintings week in New York.

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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (French, 1841-1919) Le Bouquet, 1910. Oil on canvas. 17 x 12-1/2 inches (43.2 x 31.8 cm). Signed lower left: Renoir. Two paste-down labels on stretcher bars bearing stock numbers: no. 4367 and no. 10401.

Renoir’s Le Bouquet, 1910, brings $657,250 in Heritage Fine Art auction
Release Date: 21 November 2011
Daniel Ridgway Knight’s Young Woman Knitting brings $143,400; Edmund Henry Osthaus and Edward-Léon Cortès both make strong showing in Nov. 8 American & European Art Auction in Dallas. Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Le Bouquet, 1910, brought $657,250 as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ ...

Digitised Art Collaborates with Master Paintings Week 2012.

Digitised Art Collaborates with Master Paintings Week To Create a Sophisticated Management System
Release Date: 18 November 2011
DigitisedArt, the brainchild of online entrepreneur Paul Evans, is emerging as the new digital connector and facilitator for art businesses, events and associations. Conceived earlier this year with galleries, dealers, photographers and printers in mind, DigitisedArt has recently been ...

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's "Farm in Dangast" (1910) will be returned by the city of Berlin to the heir of Robert Graetz, who was killed at Auschwitz. Source: BPK via Angelika Enderlein.

Stolen Art Returns Home after 60 Years
ArtfixDaily Staff - November 21st, 2011 22:34

A painting stolen from Berlin in the chaotic aftermath of WWII, and subsequently sold to the Indiana University Art Museum, is finally on its way back to Germany after years of investigation. The return of two other looted German art works, both by Expressionist painter Karl Schmitt-Rottluff, coincides...

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	AmericanaWeek.com Partners with American Folk Art Museum to Increase Museum's Visibility And Pass the Hat Campaign Release Date: 21 November 2011 The new website AmericanaWeek.com, which bills itself as the "Gateway to Americana Week," and a "guide to the shows, auctions and attractions of New York's Americana Week," has added its name to the growing list of supporters of the American Folk Art Museum. "The American ... Read more

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