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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The former American Stock Exchange building bought by Michael Steinhardt and another investor.

Hedge Funders Use Art Collections to Secure Loans
Bloomberg - October 18th, 2011 22:10

With borrowing costs at record lows and prices for top-tier artworks soaring at auction, private banks are increasingly doling out loans to ultra-rich clients who use their art collections as collateral. Picassos and Pollock...

Maurice Prendergast Paris Scene Oil Painting Unearthed at Clarke Auction
Release Date: 18 October 2011
While sifting through a large box lot of art dropped off at the Larchmont, NY gallery by what is known in the trade as a “picker,” Nelia Moore, Art Specialist/Auctioneer at Clarke Auction spotted a beautifully executed but very dirty painting on panel of a woman in a veil. After dusting it off ...

Jasper Johns and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro inspect Untitled (Green Painting), 1954, during the artist’s 1996 ADP interview at the Menil Collection. Copyright 2011, Menil Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.

Menil Launches Online Artists Documentation Program Archive, In Partnership with Whitney Museum of American Art and Harvard Art Museums
Release Date: 18 October 2011
Founded in 1990 at the Menil Collection, the Artists Documentation Program (ADP) is known within the art world and scholarly circles for gathering vital first-hand interviews with prominent artists—and occasionally their close associates—about the making of art and its conservation. Now, the ...

1. Victor Gilbert, "Marche Aux Fleurs Pont Neuf" oil painting on canvas. Canvas: 29"H x 36.25"W'; Frame: 42''H x 49.5''W. Signed lower left, "Victor Gilbert". Estimate: $100,000-$120,000.00

Victor Gilbert, Galien-LaLoue, G. Clausen, Cortez, E. Hunt among big names to be featured in Dallas Auction Gallery’s November 16th Fine and Decorative Art Auction
Release Date: 18 October 2011
Dallas Auction Gallery will follow their $1.2 million dollar jewelry auction that was held on October 5th with an outstanding Fine and Decorative Art Auction on November 16th. This sale will feature items from a local private collection and will include paintings by Victor Gilbert, Eugene ...

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	Rare Venetian Bronzes to be Unveiled by Tomasso Brothers at The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show Release Date: 18 October 2011 Tomasso Brothers Fine Art will unveil a rare pair of bronzes at The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show worth around $1 million. These magnificent groups are amongst the largest bronzes by Francesco Bertos (Italian, 1693-1739), a prominent Venetian sculptor of the first half of ... Read more

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