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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, October 29, 2012

Paul Cezanne's The Card Players sold for a record price of $250 million to the royal family of the tiny, oil-rich nation of Qatar.

Ripple Effect of the Arab World Art Boom
Wall Street Journal - October 28th, 2012 22:04

The Arab world is investing in their art culture with unprecedented spending, recently acquiring Cezanne’s The Card Players for $250 million, after purchasing the Louvre name for $525 million and another $750 million for works from its collection.

Lot 81: Gerhard Richter, "Untitled (7.6.84)" watercolor and color crayon on paper. Provenance: From the family of Mimi and Herman W. Lay, founder of H.W. Lay & Company (makers of Lay's potato chips) and former CEO of Frito Lay and PepsiCo. Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932). Estimate: $40,000-$60,000 Sold for: $120,000.00 (buyer’s premium not included).

Gerhard Richters from Lay's Potato Chips Founder Collection Top Dallas Auction

The continued strength and international appeal of Modern and Contemporary art was evident in the exceptional prices achieved at Dallas Auction Gallery’s October 24th sale. The ...

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	Dallas Museum of Art Discovers George Inness Painting in the Collection Release Date: 26 October 2012 The Dallas Museum of Art announced today the reattribution of a painting to the artist George Inness, widely admired as one of America’s greatest landscape painters. The work of art has been in the Museum’s collection for eighty years, entering in 1931 as part of a bequest by Cecil A. ... Read more

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