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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, October 01, 2009
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 | Stunning Art Theft: Ransom note left for uninsured masterpieces
Boston Globe - October 1st, 2009 04:53
Some of the world’s most expensive paintings and drawings, valued over $27 million in an outdated appraisal, were stolen last week from the Pebble Beach, Calif., home of retired Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Ralph Kennaugh and his business partner Angelo Amadio. Sixteen of the most “significant’’ include works by Jackson Pollock, Edgar Degas, Rembrandt, Miro, and Renoir. Not part of the collection's old appraisal was a Pollock thought to be worth at least ...Read more | |
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 | The 'Lost Ed Ruscha' and other Tales: Remembering Henry Hopkins
LA Times - October 1st, 2009 04:31
When he was director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Henry T. Hopkins gave the green light to the first major retrospective of Ed Ruscha's paintings. The show was instrumental in securing Ruscha's reputation as a critically important artist -- both for Los Angeles, where he began to attract attention as a promising newcomer around 1959, and for a 1980s art world that was just on the cusp of going global. Hopkins, who died over the weekend at 81, was instrumental in ...Read more | |
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 | Perennially Popular: This Weekend's Merchandise Mart Antiques Fair
Pioneer Local - October 1st, 2009 04:12
CHICAGO - Two local antique dealers are looking forward to showcasing their finds at the Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, Oct. 2-5. Margaret Chung of Three Friends Studio is riding the market high for Chinese antiquities. Her stand will present a sandstone triad with a Buddha figure and two other figures from the Northern Qi Dynasty, 550-577, and a fantastic coffer decorated with paintings of auspicious symbols. Crescent Worth Art & Antiques is bringing a collection of ...Read more | |
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 | Strong Sales for 50 Years: Florence Antiques Fair
Artinfo - October 1st, 2009 04:22
FLORENCE— The Florence International Antiques Fair — held in the beautiful 17th-century Palazzo Corsini on the bank of the Arno River — certainly has plenty to offer in terms of ambience. Add to that 90 dealers bringing a superb collection of paintings, European furniture, maiolica, medieval and Renaissance works of art, and Italian sculpture, and the result is a spectacular event. The nine-day fair, which held a vernissage on Sept. 25 and is open to the public through Oct. ...Read more | |
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