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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Friday, September 11, 2009
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 | St. John Stars This Fall: Old Master masterpiece a rarity in today's market
Bloomberg - September 10th, 2009 17:34
LONDON - The family that controls Glyndebourne opera house is to sell an Old Master painting with an estimate of up to 10 million pounds ($16.5 million). The 9-foot “St. John the Evangelist” by 17th-century Italian artist Domenichino is being offered by the Christie family, no relation to auction house Christie’s International which is conducting the December 8th sale in London. Highly priced works have been in short supply in salerooms since the end of 2008, when major ...Read more | |
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 | Collecting Fine China: Antiquities market has a new dynamic
Forbes - September 10th, 2009 16:14
The market for ancient Chinese works of art--terra-cotta horses, ceramic vessels, bronzes, jades, and Buddha statues that predate the Tang dynasty (a.d. 618 to 907)--is largely undervalued, and there's still a plentiful supply, from rarities with significant provenance to pieces that simply make good conversation starters. But there's a new dynamic afoot that promises to drive up prices: Mainland Chinese are entering the market in ever greater numbers.Read more | |
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 | Big on Modernism: Pennsylvania museum gets an infusion of 20th century art
Chicago Tribune - September 10th, 2009 16:47
ALLENTOWN, Penn. - The Allentown Art Museum has received one of its largest gifts ever -- about 500 works plus the Long Island home and studio and Manhattan apartment of the modernist artist Peter Grippe. The collection of sculptures, drawings, and prints by Grippe, given by his widow, came along with works by other artists, including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Alexander Calder, and poet Dylan Thomas. Grippe was a Cubist-inspired sculptor and printmaker of the New York School who died in ...Read more | |
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 | Stolen "Himalayas": Brooklyn couple nabbed for trying to sell museum painting
New York Post - September 10th, 2009 16:33
NEW YORK - Denis Ryjenko, 35, and his girlfriend, Natella Croussouloudis, 42, were arrested Sept. 3 as they tried to unload a small masterpiece, "Himalayas," by the prolific early 20th-century Russian artist Nicholas Roerich and valued at $125,000. One of them even told the "buyer," an undercover cop, that the painting was "hot." A second painting stolen from Nicholas Roerich Museum -- titled "Talung Monastery" and worth $70,000 -- was mysteriously ...Read more | |
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