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Gauguin fizzles, Bonnard soars at London auction
Reuters / February 9th, 2011
A much-touted lot at Christie's impressionist and modern art sale in London failed to sell on Wed. The rare Paul Gauguin still-life titled "Nature morte a 'L'Esperance," painted as a tribute to Van Gogh, was expected to bring up 10 million pounds ($16 million). Pierre Bonnard's "Terrasse a ...
Picasso, Esherick among modern masters lifting auction results
Washington Post / February 8th, 2011
A Pablo Picasso painting of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter, titled "La Lecture," more than doubled its low estimate to fetch 25.2 million pounds ($40.7 million) at a Sotheby's auction in London on Tuesday. The Picasso edged up the firm's modern and impressionist art auction total to 68.8 ...
Google Art Project could be a game-changer
Huffington Post / February 7th, 2011
Introduced last Tuesday, Google's Art Project is a new kind of interactive online showcase that allows users to virtually browse through some of the world's greatest museums using a Google Street View-like interface. From London's Tate to New York's Met, 17 renowned museums can be viewed inside ...
New York Observer's Top 50 Art Collectors
New York Observer / February 3rd, 2011
From stockpiles of Matisses to flocks of duck decoys, early works by Koons to ravishing Rothkos and Renoirs and rooms full of Chippendale and Biedermeier furniture, or even Damien Hirst's infamous shark, New York's leading collectors have amassed a wide array of art and antiques. View the New ...
Antiques Week in New York: Showstoppers at the fairs
New York Times / January 20th, 2011
A bevy of antiques shows, auctions, museum exhibitions and gallery events are underway in New York City through this weekend. At the Park Avenue Armory, 75 dealers in the Winter Antiques Show (through Jan. 30) represent the creme-de-la-creme of high-end antiques. Among this year's show ...
Cleveland Museum of Art to auction off old masters
Plain Dealer / January 18th, 2011
Beginning on Jan. 27, the Cleveland Museum of Art will offer 30 European old master paintings from its collection in a series of sales at Sotheby's in New York. Mostly by minor masters, three-quarters of the paintings to be sold were gifts to the museum. The auction total is estimated at a ...
Gauguin, Degas to star in Christie's blockbuster sale
Christie's / January 10th, 2011
A painting of sunflowers by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) is expected to lead Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Auction, a sale chock-full of fresh-to-market works from various private collections and a museum, on Feb. 9 in London. Gauguin painted Nature morte à “L’Espérance” ...
"The Art of Collecting" goes inside private collectors' homes
Boston Globe / December 26th, 2010
“The Art of Collecting: An Intimate Tour Inside Private Art Collections, with Advice on Starting Your Own” (Antique Collector's Club) is a new coffee-table book by Boston-area art dealer Diane McManus Jensen with a foreword by Wendell Garrett. Included are fifteen collecting-specific essays ...
New British law may make finder's fees risky
The Art Newspaper / December 16th, 2010
The Bribery Act, new British legislation aimed at curtailing bribery in the corporate world, which takes effect next year, may jeopardize the legality of the longstanding practice of paying finder's fees in the art trade. An art dealer may face prosecution for paying a commission to a third ...
Successful sales, turn-out for 14th Boston International Fine Art Show
Antiques and the Arts / December 15th, 2010
Attendance and sales were strong for the fourteenth edition of the Boston International Fine Art Show, held at Boston's Cyclorama from Nov. 18 to 21, and beginning with a benefit preview party for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Forty international dealers exhibited historic to contemporary art, ...
Van Gogh's Twin debuts in Spring 2011
Herald Scotland / December 9th, 2010
After telling his woes to famously-troubled Vincent van Gogh, and in return being offered a suicide pact, Alexander Reid had to tactfully exit his close friend's life. Before that, Reid, a Scottish art dealer and artist, was painted at least twice by van Gogh with whom he shared an uncanny ...
Major Picasso discovery sparks legal action
Aol news / November 29th, 2010
A retired French electrician has been questioned by police after coming foward with an undocumented cache of 271 works by Pablo Picasso. The find is valued at $80 million. Pierre Le Guennec, 71, and his wife, approached the estate of Picasso with a request to authenticate the works. The ...
Art Basel Miami Beach returns with high expectations
Wall Street Journal / November 28th, 2010
Buoyed by confidence stemming from recent strong sales at New York's contemporary art auctions, dealers clamored to exhibit in the current edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. Booth applications rose by 20% over last year. There will be blue-chip 20th-century art offerings, but dealers are also ...
Houston to host new international art fair in 2011
Houston Chronicle / November 17th, 2010
Organizers of art fairs in the Hamptons, N.Y.; Aspen, Colo.; and San Francisco have selected Houston, Texas, as their next venue. Hamptons Expo Group hopes to draw about 10,000 visitors for the inaugural Houston Fine Art Fair to be held Sept. 15-18 at the George R. Brown Convention Center. ...
Louvre appeals to public for €4m acquisition
ArtfixDaily / November 16th, 2010
The Louvre museum in Paris is quite specific when seeking the public's help to achieve fundraising goals. The current appeal is for one million euros to complete the 4 million euros needed to buy Lucas Cranach the Elders's "The Three Graces."
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema masterpiece fetches record $35.9 million
Sotheby's / November 8th, 2010
At Sotheby’s in New York on Nov. 4, The Finding of Moses, a 19th century masterpiece by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, sold for a remarkable $35,922,500, more than seven times its high estimate, in a sale of 19th Century European Art which brought a total of $61,536,125. This highly sought-after ...
Diamond brooch portrayed in Sargent painting at auction
Telegraph / November 8th, 2010
From the collection of the Dukes of Portland comes a gorgeous 1870 diamond and natural pearl brooch once belonging to Winifred, Duchess of Portland (1863-1954). The great beauty, a leading society figure in her time, wore the exquisite brooch, featuring large and desirable natural pearl ...
Art world news briefs
ArtfixDaily / November 4th, 2010
SALE STYMIED: British authorities have stalled the sale of J.M.W. Turner's 1839 painting "Modern Rome — Campo Vaccino" to the J. Paul Getty Trust. At a Sotheby's auction in London last July, California's Getty placed the high bid of $44.9 million for the work. Yet on Wednesday, Great Britain's ...
Matisse, Gris lead modern masters at Christie's sale
New York Times / November 3rd, 2010
At Christie's on Wed. night, bidders were competitive for top-tier examples by Henri Matisse and Juan Gris while average works by other leading Impressionists and modern masters were left bidless. Matisse’s 6-foot bronze sculpture of a woman’s back — “Nu de Dos, 4 État (Back IV)” brought on ...
Modigliani nude nets nearly $70 million
ArtfixDaily / November 3rd, 2010
A compelling nude painted by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) garnered $68.96 million at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale on Tuesday. This first sale in the series of auctions in New York brought in $227 million, soundly within the $195 million to $266 million ...