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Art dealers expose their personal collections
ArtfixDaily / August 25th, 2010
Collectors sometimes suspect that dealers keep the best stuff for themselves. Recently, notable dealers have unabashedly revealed their personal tastes, which at times mirror their gallery's specialities, in exhibitions and as inventory for sale. This fall New York dealer Larry Gagosian will be ...
$50 million Van Gogh still-life stolen
Guardian / August 22nd, 2010
A Vincent Van Gogh painting valued at $50 million was stolen over the weekend from a Cairo museum. Early reports stated the painting was recovered hours after it went missing. Egypt's culture minister Farouk Hosni later said the information was inaccurate and "Poppy Flowers," also called "Vase ...
Strong start to Bonhams' Scottish Sale
ArtfixDaily / August 19th, 2010
Bonhams' Annual Scottish Sale began this week with a heady total of £1.25m for paintings. the leading lot was Anne Redpath's beautiful 1937 painting, 'Still Life with Michaelmas Daises' which quadrupled its low estimate to sell for £134,000 (pre-sale estimate: £30,000- 50,000). Redpath's ...
Privately-held Vermeer on display at Chrysler Museum
The Virginian-Pilot / August 9th, 2010
"Young Woman Seated at a Virginal," one of perhaps 36 known works by Johannes Vermeer, and the only one left in private hands (besides Queen Elizabeth's collection), is quietly on public display at Virginia's Chrysler Museum of Art. Aspects of this work have puzzled art experts since it emerged ...
Art fraudster Salander sentenced to up to 18 years
Bloomberg / August 3rd, 2010
Bankrupt Manhattan art dealer Lawrence Salander, 61, was sentenced to 6 to 18 years in prison for grand larceny and fraud by a New York court on Tuesday. Salander, who was arrested in 2009, pleaded guilty to swindling clients out of $120 million. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries filed for bankruptcy ...
Expanded Crocker Art Museum inaugurates new galleries with special exhibitions
ArtfixDaily / August 2nd, 2010
This fall the Crocker Art Museum, in Sacramento, California, will celebrate the opening of its 125,000-square-foot expansion, designed by Charles Gwathmey, with a retrospective of the work of Sacramento native Wayne Thiebaud. On view beginning October 10, 2010, Wayne Thiebaud: Homecoming ...
The rise of auction houses in private sales
Spear's / August 2nd, 2010
Even while record prices for major artists at auction have been headline news in the past year, the recession has helped accelerate the art market's shift towards private sales. Some sellers are seemingly reluctant to take the risk of their art failing at public auction. In response, auction ...
Vatican retracts new Caravaggio claim
Washington Post / July 27th, 2010
Art historians have concluded that a painting thought to be an unknown work by Carvaggio is not by the Baroque master. The Vatican newspaper l'Osservatore Romano headlined a story last week about a discovery of a lost Caravaggio titled "Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" in a Jesuit church. Experts ...
Summer reading: "The Rembrandt Affair"
ArtfixDaily / July 20th, 2010
Best-selling author Daniel Silva has crafted an entertaining new spy thriller based on the world's most shocking art heists. "The Rembrandt Affair" portrays art crime---a lucrative underground activity resulting in losses of at least $6 billion annually, according to the FBI---set against the ...
Magazine doubts da Vinci fingerprint expert
Edmonton Journal / July 15th, 2010
Peter Silverman, the Canadian art dealer who garnered international attention last year after claiming he'd discovered a long-lost drawing by the Italian master Leonardo da Vinci, insists the portrait's new attribution is sound despite troubling questions raised by The New Yorker magazine about ...
Art & antiques fair renaissance
ArtfixDaily / July 12th, 2010
Art Basel, TEFAF Maastricht, New York's Winter Antiques Show, each is long-established in its own niche as a world-class art fair, drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually, at least some of them deep-pocketed buyers. These mainstays of the art and antiques scene, to name a few, are now ...
Art historians question $13 million Rubens
Independent / July 11th, 2010
From Althorp, the family home of Diana, Princess of Wales, 775 items were sold at Christie's in London last week for £21m. The top lot was Portrait of a Commander Being Dressed for Battle, by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, which reached £9m ($13 million), the second highest price paid for a work by the ...
Turner landscape, silver wine cooler set records at Sotheby's
ArtfixDaily / July 7th, 2010
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles won J.M.W. Turner's ethereal final painting of Rome, “Modern Rome — Campo Vaccino” (1839) for $44.9 million (with fees) at a Sotheby's sale in London on Wednesday. In pristine condition, the work reached an auction record for the British master, soundly ...
Summer Selections: Three Impressionist gems unveiled by M.S. Rau
ArtfixDaily / July 7th, 2010
A striking trio of Impressionist oils have been secured from private collections by New Orleans-based M.S. Rau Antiques. The new acquisitions, two by the iconic Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and one by noted Belgian Neo-Impressionist Théo Van Rysselberghe (1862-1926), capture three divergent ...
London Auction: Sorolla soars above estimate, Rubens reaps $13 million
ArtfixDaily / July 6th, 2010
A Peter Paul Rubens portrait of a bearded commander in battle armor led the charge at Christie's Old Master & 19th c. Paintings sale Tuesday evening. A solid total of £42.3 million ($64.2 million) fell within the £36.9–55.3 million pre-sale estimate, marking the third highest-grossing sale ...
Yale discovers early Velazquez in basement
Gothamist / July 4th, 2010
A donated painting languished in the basement of Yale University for nearly 8 decades before a curator took notice. The unsigned work titled "The Education of the Virgin," given to Yale in 1925, was never displayed because of its poor condition. In 2002, Yale University Art Gallery was preparing ...
Vermeer's The Milkmaid helps push Met attendance to 5.24 million
ArtfixDaily / June 30th, 2010
In the midst of a recession economy, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York attracted 5,240,000 visitors during the fiscal year that ended June 30. This is the first year since 2001 that attendance at the Metropolitan has exceeded five million. Among the 30 exhibitions presented at the ...
"Picasso Looks at Degas" reveals a lifelong artistic adulation
ArtfixDaily / June 28th, 2010
Two of the greatest artists of the modern period are the focus of a ground-breaking exhibition at The Clark, a world-class gem of a museum nestled in The Berkshires. "Picasso Looks at Degas" is the first in-depth exploration of Pablo Picasso’s (1881-1973) unwavering fascination with the life ...
Impressionist and Modern art sale a subdued record-breaker
New York Times / June 23rd, 2010
The star lot at Christie's on Wednesday evening in London eluded its $60 million high estimate in a sale that totaled $226.4 million (£152.5m), much less than its low estimate of $242.8 million. Yet, the auction represented a record art sale total for the U.K., according to the Guardian. The ...
Fauvist landscape brightens London auction
New York Times / June 22nd, 2010
The first of two major Impressionist and Modern art sales this week in London brought a total of $165.2 million at Sotheby's, within the $148.4 million to $217.5 million estimated range. Sixteen of the 51 works did not sell. The highly-publicized Manet self-portrait went up to 20 million ...