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National Gallery London Acquires George Bellows Painting
ArtfixDaily / February 8th, 2014
A painting by American realist George Bellows has been purchased by the National Gallery in London for $25.5 million. Billed as the museum's first major acquisition by an American artist, Bellows's "Men at the Docks," from 1912, was sold by...
Nazi-seized Pissarro Painting Leads Sotheby's Sale
ArtfixDaily / February 5th, 2014
A restituted painting led Sotheby's sale of Impressionist, modern and surrealist art in London on Wednesday, during the first week of a series of sales that test this year's art market. The sale brought a total...
Record-Smashing Juan Gris Tops Christie's $288 Million Sale
ArtfixDaily / February 5th, 2014
A work by Juan Gris catapulted to nearly three-times its estimate to fetch $56.8 million in London on Tuesday. The price sets a new level for the Spanish painter in a sale marked with enthusiasm for "fresh to market" lots which did not include a collection of Joan Miró works...
Joan Mondale, Arts Supporter, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / February 4th, 2014
An effective advocate for the fine arts, Joan Mondale earned the nickname Joan of Art in Washington during the vice presidential term of her husband, Walter E. Mondale, in the late 1970s.
Art Financier Asher Edelman Sues Swiss Company for Fraud
ArtfixDaily / February 4th, 2014
In New York State Supreme Court on Friday, Asher Edelman sued Swiss company Artmentum claiming that their fraudalent scheme to sell 100 masterworks by the likes of Monet and van Gogh damaged his art-financing firm. A real-life inspiration for Gordon Gekko...
Monet to Sargent Masterworks Among Treasures to be Sold From Clark Estate
ArtfixDaily / February 3rd, 2014
Christie's revealed some of the highlights in sales this spring of works from the estate of copper heiress Huguette Clark. Four masterworks by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir...
Sotheby's Names New Department Heads, Amid Other Shake-ups
ArtfixDaily / February 2nd, 2014
On Friday, Sotheby's named new co-heads of the contemporary art department and the Impressionist and modern art department. The appointments follow the shake-up instigated by majority shareholder Daniel Loeb who...
President Loves Art History, But Not How it Pays
ArtfixDaily / January 30th, 2014
While speaking on Thursday at a General Electric manufacturing plant in Waukesha, Wis., President Obama made a comment that manufacturing jobs might be a better paying line of work than ones secured with an art history degree.
Museums Put Artworks on the Table in Super Bowl Bet
ArtfixDaily / January 30th, 2014
Sports mania and fine art mix once again in a bet made between art museum directors in the home city's of competing teams. This year, Seattle Art Museum and Denver Art Museum have wagered ..
A FRAME FOR "PICTURING MEXICO: RAMOS MARTINEZ IN CALIFORNIA"
ArtfixDaily / January 19th, 2014
One of the paintings currently on exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art is philanthropist Dwight Stuart’s "La Iglesia de Texcoco" by Mexican Modernist Ramos Martinez. It is remarkable not only for the subject matter. but also for...
Detroit Institute of Arts Devises Ways to Save Its Art
ArtfixDaily / January 29th, 2014
In a statement on Wednesday, the Detroit Institute of Arts said it would endeavor to raise $100 million in a multiyear fundraising effort to save its collections. The museum's commitment joins about $370 million already pledged by...
Cleveland Museum of Art Refutes Claims of Fake Van Goghs in Exhibition
Cleveland Plain Dealer / January 28th, 2014
Eight Vincent van Gogh paintings that are part of a traveling exhibition are described as fakes by the authors of a new e-book.
Americana Week: Buyers Find Plenty of Treasures, from Folk to Fancy
ArtfixDaily / January 27th, 2014
For collectors and curators looking for the unusual, the beautiful, the "best of the best," or simply a take-home slice of Americana, Antiques Week in New York offered it all.
Art Market Shifts
New York Times / January 23rd, 2014
Auction data is in for 2013 and it points to significant shifts. Christie's announced Wednesday that nearly one in three of its customers was new in 2013 and many came from...
Philippines Wants Return of Art Linked to Imelda Marcos
ArtfixDaily / January 20th, 2014
The Philippines is seeking to retrieve three major paintings that an aide to Imelda Marcos has gone to jail in the U.S. for attempting to sell...
French Woman Sues Oklahoma University Over Stolen Painting
ArtfixDaily / January 19th, 2014
A Nazi-looted painting by Camille Pissarro is at the center of a lawsuit brought against Oklahoma University by a French woman.
San Francisco Antique Dealers Indicted for Art Fraud
ArtfixDaily / January 17th, 2014
Two San Francisco antique dealers were charged with fraud in federal court in San Jose for allegedly working a Ponzi scheme that took $1.5 million from investors.
Christie's to Auction Estate of Copper Heiress Huguette Clark
ArtfixDaily / January 17th, 2014
Christie's will offer property from the estate of copper heiress Huguette Clark this spring. Fine art, musical instruments, Gilded Age furnishings, decorative arts and rare books...
U.S. Army Readies Art for New Museum
Washington Post / January 16th, 2014
An arsenal of 16,000 artworks--powerful images by the likes of Norman Rockwell, Ogden Pleissner and George Biddle--is waiting in a conservation facility for a new museum to open.
Elaine Wynn Named as Buyer of $142 Million Francis Bacon
New York Times / January 15th, 2014
When Francis Bacon's massive triptych "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" sold to a telephone bidder for $142.2 million at Christie's New York in November, the unnamed buyer fueled speculation.