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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, November 30, 2009
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 | Canadian art busts auction records
Vancouver Sun - November 29th, 2009 17:39
Lawren Harris's "sketch" painting "The Old Stump, Lake Superior" sold for $3.51 million Thursday at the Heffel auction in Toronto, making it the second most valuable painting ever sold at auction in Canada. The sale overall realized $20,773,642.50, the second highest-grossing Canadian art auction in history. Tom Thomson's small sketch "Early Spring, Canoe Lake" brought $2,749,500, and 24 more records were set in the auction, which was dedicated to ...Read more | |
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 | Norman Rockwell's photographers paint a mixed picture
NPR 1 - November 29th, 2009 13:50
Artist-illustrator Norman Rockwell's rosy America and literalist technique might polarize opinions, but there's no denying the permanence and influence of his vision. Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera, a new book with a companion exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum, shows Rockwell's use of photographs in his illustrative process. NPR reveals this new side of Rockwell's story, as told by his reluctant photographer and a cast of models who posed for him.Read more | |
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 | Vivid pink diamond may rock Hong Kong
New Tang Dynasty Television - November 29th, 2009 16:59
On the heels of record-breaking auctions of colored diamonds in Geneva this November, a rare, 5-carat pink diamond to be auctioned by Christie's in Hong Kong on December 1 is expected to fetch between $5-$7 million, near world record prices. The stone's "vivid pink" is considered near perfect and the Christie's jewelry head, Vicky Shek, has touted it as one of the best colored stones to appear in recent years.Read more | |
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 | Rembrandts, real and fake, at Getty Museum exhibit
LA Times Arts - November 29th, 2009 08:00
Hundreds of paintings formerly attributed to the 17th century Dutch master have been demoted in the course of a massive research project funded by the Dutch government and investigations by specialists around the world. And the work goes on. This three-decade, international collaboration has culminated in the Getty's show which pairs works deemed to be by Rembrandt with drawings of the same or similar subjects by 15 other artists...Read more | |
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