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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, September 28, 2009
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 | Donald Fisher Dead: Gap co-founder, art collector, dies at 81
Huffington Post - September 28th, 2009 03:56
SAN FRANCISCO - Donald Fisher, 81, passed away at his San Francisco home on Sunday, Sept. 27. The Fishers' personal art collection is renowned and includes some of the 20th century's most well-known artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced Friday it was partnering with the Fishers to house the couple's some 1,100 works to create one of the nation's greatest art collections. ...Read more | |
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 | Sellers Hold-Out: Contemporary art auction values dip 81%, volumes low
Bloomberg - September 28th, 2009 05:25
LONDON - The estimated value of London’s October contemporary-art auctions is down 81 percent from 2008 as prices and lots on offer decline amid the financial crisis. Sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s International and Phillips de Pury of “Part I” works during the week of the Frieze Art Fair are estimated to fetch at least 20.8 million pounds ($33.1 million), according to a total of auction-house figures calculated by Bloomberg. The equivalent sales last year had a ...Read more | |
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ARTFIXdaily Events
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 | On the Hunt
Stephen B. O'Brien Jr.
Galen Mercer Exhibition
Through October 15, my gallery Stephen O’Brien Jr. Fine Arts will feature a solo exhibition of six major works by the artist, writer, and sportsman Galen Mercer. The grandson of two painters and the son of another, Mercer excelled in formal technique at Thornton Hall Academy, a school ...Read more | |
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 | Teenage Michelangelo's Masterpiece: Recent attribution brings the Renaissance superstar to Texas
Star-Telegram - September 26th, 2009 21:42
FORT WORTH - After recent research revealed the artist's identity, Kimbell Art Museum has hung a stunning discovery. "We have the only Michelangelo painting in the Western Hemisphere," Kimbell Director Eric M. Lee said. "There are only four known easel paintings that he created. That’s as rare as you can get. A Leonardo [da Vinci] painting would not be as rare." The piece — an 18-by-13-inch oil painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony, is believed to be ...Read more | |
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 | 'When I Paint My Masterpiece': Bob Dylan's artwork on view in Denmark
Artdaily - September 16th, 2009 16:13
COPENHAGEN - The National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst) is preparing for an autumn 2010 special exhibition of 100 paintings by award-winning singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The exhibition will include the first major presentation of Dylan’s most recent works: large-format acrylic paintings. When Dylan gave a rare performance of the song "When I Paint My Masterpiece" at a concert in Copenhagen earlier this year, it was a covert nod to the National Gallery of Denmark ...Read more | |
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