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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Friday, October 02, 2009
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 | Souvenir Painting Appeals: 'School of Canaletto' reaches six-figures in Maryland
Washington Post - October 1st, 2009 18:28
An 18th-century unsigned oil painting of the Grand Canal in Venice, estimated at a modest $6,000 to $8,000, sold for $687,125 Sunday afternoon at Sloans & Kenyon auction house in Chevy Chase. It is believed to be the most expensive painting ever sold at a Washington area auction. Thirteen phone bidders competed against live bidders in the gallery for this work from the "school of" the 18th-century artist Giovanni Antonio Canaletto.The consignor's grandmother bought the work ...Read more | |
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 | Building a Taste for Contemporary: Seoul auctioneer aims to corner art market in Asia
Reuters - October 1st, 2009 17:56
SEOUL - South Korean auction house Seoul Auction is hoping to interest Chinese and other Asian collectors in modern Western and contemporary art, with the lofty aim of beating Sotheby's and Christie's in the region. The 11-year-old auction house, which earlier this year sold British artist Damien Hirst's first work in Asia, "Tranquility" from his "Butterfly Series" for $1.71 million, is keen to build a regional presence through Hong Kong auctions, in a market ...Read more | |
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 | Weekend Getaway: City of Lights is aglow with art and fashion
New York Times - October 1st, 2009 16:45
During Fashion Week, Paris teases with fun art exhibitions. The Pompidou Center just opened “The Subversion of Images: Surrealism, Photography, Film,” a collection of almost 400 works by the photographers Man Ray, Hans Bellmer and Claude Cahun alongside various artists. Acte2galerie has a retrospective of the Swiss fashion photographer Michel Comte. And this Saturday is Nuit Blanche, when museums stay open all night, ending with breakfast at City Hall. Oh, those French. …Read more | |
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 | Lost Masterpiece Recreated: Ga. museum displays forgotten da Vinci sculptures
Associated Press - October 1st, 2009 17:11
ATLANTA (AP) -- Leonardo da Vinci once spent nearly two decades creating a 26-foot sculpture of a horse to honor a royal Italian family, only to have the plaster masterpiece destroyed by French soldiers. A rare U.S. exhibit of the remaining few sculptures and dozens of sketches by da Vinci and his contemporaries will open Oct. 6 at Atlanta's High Museum of Art, featuring art never seen outside of Europe.Read more | |
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