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Birger Sandzen painting sets record price in $2.8m auction
ArtfixDaily / August 27th, 2011
Auction In Santa Fe 2011 (AISF) offered the largest and one of the most brilliant Birger Sandzen works ever sold at auction, shattering the record for a work by this artist by nearly $150,000. “Summer In the Mountains” (1923) sold for...
Cook Fine Art sued by collector for $5m in missing art
Courthouse News Service / August 28th, 2011
A New York art dealer has taken off with about $5 million worth of art, or the proceeds of their sale, claims one collector. Works by the likes of Picasso, Klee, and Matisse are missing. The "money has been spent"...
An uncertain future for American Folk Art Museum
New York Times / August 25th, 2011
When the American Folk Art Museum sold its flagship building in Midtown Manhattan to the Museum of Modern Art in May that move did not save the cash-strapped institution from its woes. Now there is talk of dissolving...
Sotheby's art handler lockout extends into fall season
artinfo / August 25th, 2011
With the autumn auction schedule in full swing starting Sept. 13, Sotheby's has agreed to meet with its protesting unionized art handlers just one day before. The teamsters say they will organize a major protest outside Sotheby's on Friday.
Art collector wins $3m civil suit for decades-old theft
Boston Globe / August 24th, 2011
In 1978, Michael Bakwin and his wife left their Berkshires home for a weekend trip only to find seven paintings missing upon their return. Among the couple's stolen artwork was...
Art Institute of Chicago names Douglas Druick as director
ArtfixDaily / August 24th, 2011
Douglas Druick, a 26-year veteran curator and department chair at the Art Institute of Chicago, was named its new president and director on Wed. An internationally recognized scholar and curator...
Sotheby's scores Denver deal for Clyfford Still paintings
ArtfixDaily / August 23rd, 2011
Sotheby's was granted the right by the city of Denver to sell four rare-to-market paintings by American abstract expressionist Clyfford Still (1904-1980). Rival auction house Christie's says it could offer the city a better deal. Both Sotheby's and Christie's submitted proposals to handle the ...
$16.4 million Ferrari tops record-breaking vintage car auctions
ArtfixDaily / August 22nd, 2011
A 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Prototype raced to a record-breaking $16.4 million at a Gooding & Co. auction on Aug. 20. In a $80 million RM Auctions sale, a Mercedes-Benz set a record for the maker of...
Warner collection of American art on view at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Inquirer / August 21st, 2011
Since the 1950s, Jonathan Westervelt Warner, known as Jack, accumulated a notable collection of more than 700 American artworks and objects. His intention, says the 94-year-old, was to form a collection "as an investment for my family company,"...
Keno brothers unearth "Buried Treasure" on FOX-TV series
ArtfixDaily / August 18th, 2011
The human drama of reality television is mixed with the excitement of revealing some valuable art and antiques on a new FOX-TV series hosted by identical twin brothers Leigh Keno and Leslie Keno. The two Americana experts debut in "Buried Treasure" on Aug. 24 at 8pm/7pm Central. The duo expands ...
Freer Gallery reveals light-filled Whistler's Peacock Room
ArtfixDaily / August 17th, 2011
For the first time in 25 years, the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art will open the shutters of James McNeill Whistler’s famed Peacock Room for public view on the third Thursday of each month, beginning Aug. 18, 12-5:30 p.m. Visitors to the room will have a chance to experience the tonal ...
Edward Hopper scene becomes a new stamp
Cape Cod Times / August 16th, 2011
Edward Hopper's 1930s painting of a sailboat near Long Point Light, titled “The Long Leg,” was selected for the Postal Service's American Treasures series. The scene combines two of Hopper's most iconic maritime imagery...
Stolen Rembrandt recovered in church
NBC / August 16th, 2011
A thief has quickly returned an Old Master drawing that was swiped from a Ritz-Carlton Hotel exhibit in Marina del Rey, Calif., on Saturday night. On Monday night, police got a tip...
Heir receives $1.43 million for Nazi-looted art
Bloomberg / August 15th, 2011
The daughter-in-law of noted Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker was awarded 1 million euros ($1.43 million) for a fragment of a painting looted by Hermann Goering.
Rembrandt drawing nabbed from hotel art exhibit
LA Times / August 14th, 2011
A Rembrandt drawing was stolen from an exhibit at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey, CA., on Saturday night, according to Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators. Hotel surveillance video shows...
Love letters of O'Keeffe, Stieglitz exposed in new book
Albuquerqe Journal / August 10th, 2011
When Albert Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe met in 1916, he was 52 and already considered the nucleus of the New York art world. She was an unknown 28-year-old Texas art teacher. National Gallery of Art photography curator...
Ai Weiwei returns to Twitter
ArtfixDaily / August 10th, 2011
Artist Ai Weiwei denounced prison abuses via social media after being held for two months by Chinese authorities. He took to Twitter to protest the treatment of his friends dragged into his case and the detainment of activists.
Guilty plea for defendant in fake folk art case
ArtfixDaily / August 9th, 2011
The U.S. Attorney's office announced that Robert E. Lucky, Jr, 64, of New Orleans, pled guilty on Aug. 8 to mail fraud in connection with selling paintings falsely attributed to celebrated Southern folk artist Clementine Hunter (1886-1988).
Record gold, silver prices spark antiques meltdown
Bloomberg / August 7th, 2011
A buffet of 18th- and 19th-century silver and gold boxes, candlesticks, flatware and salvers are increasingly heading to the furnace as prices for precious metals have soared in 2011. Collectors and attic raiders are...
George Caleb Bingham painting discovered in governor's mansion
Progress-Index / August 4th, 2011
For decades, a mysterious 19th-century portrait of a young boy and his dog hung in the Virginia governor's mansion. The sitter and artist were unknown. Earlier this year, antiques dealer Alexander Reeves mentioned on a private tour of the mansion that the painting resembled the work of ...