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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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 | Founder's Vision vs. Bottom Line: New documentary on Barnes Foundation relocation debuts
Wall Street Journal - September 29th, 2009 17:16
In 2004, a judge gave permission for the Barnes Foundation, with its unparallelled collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Early Modern paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse and others, to relocate its gallery from suburban Merion, Pa., to downtown Philadelphia. More than a decade of brawling—in the courts, the streets and the media—over the foundation's purpose and priorities, has ensued. A new documentary, "The Art of the Steal," directed by Don ...Read more | |
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 | Portrait of a Portraitist: Van Dyke's last image of himself may snag auction record
Telegraph - September 29th, 2009 16:57
LONDON - Painted in London in 1641, Flemish artist Sir Anthony Van Dyck's final self-portrait is the star lot at Sotheby's sale of Old Masters and Early British Paintings on December 9. The work is conservatively estimated at £2-3 million and may exceed the current auction record for a van Dyck of £3,065,250 paid in 2008. Being sold by the family trust of the Earl of Jersey, the painting last appeared on the market in 1712.Read more | |
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 | Fire Truck is Top Lot: Kaufman toy collection sale cruises to $3 million
Auction Central News - September 29th, 2009 17:32
VINELAND, N.J. - Exhibiting all the "bells and whistles" collectors yearn for, a circa-1912 German Marklin live-steam fire pumper blazed to the top of prices realized in Bertoia Auctions' Sept. 25-26 sale of the Donald Kaufman antique toy collection, part II, achieving $149,500 (inclusive of 15% buyer's premium) against an estimate of $40,000-$50,000. An exciting event that drew scores of overseas buyers, the 1,129-lot auction concluded with a gross that brushed the $3 ...Read more | |
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 | Scarlet Splatters: Museum mess made by Anish Kapoor on view
Bloomberg - September 29th, 2009 18:13
LONDON - Anish Kapoor is certainly making a mess of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Every 20 minutes, a cannon goes off in one gallery and shoots a projectile of red wax into a second space. What’s more, this brilliantly colored detritus looks beautiful. The Turner exhibition at Tate Britain may have more art-historical meat, but for sheer blow-your-mind, blast-off- your-footwear spectacle this is the exhibition of the autumn.Read more | |
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