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Modigliani sculpture sets record price in France
CBC News / June 15th, 2010
Another early twentieth century master is trending mightily upwards on the auction market. Amedeo Modigliani's (Italian, 1884-1920) limestone sculpture of an elongated head with almond-shaped eyes, titled Tête, sold for more than $50 million at a Christie's auction in Paris Monday night. While ...
June Auctions: 10 hot lots
ArtfixDaily / June 14th, 2010
A dazzling array of artwork is coming to the auction block this June. Sellers are seemingly confident that the upper level of the market is steady and ready for top tier works of art to be sold. "The best of the best" in all categories is in high demand. So far, 2010 has seen the world record ...
Major gift of master prints bolsters Bowdoin College Museum of Art holdings
ArtfixDaily / June 10th, 2010
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has received a large and significant gift to its permanent collection from print collector Charles Pendexter, a resident of Brunswick, Maine, where the museum is located. Totaling more than 1,500 prints and eight drawings, the Pendexter collection ...
Market-fresh Picasso cherries painting may fetch $1 million
ArtfixDaily / June 7th, 2010
So far, 2010 has been the year of Picasso in the press. In May, Christie's sold the 1932 Picasso painting of his mistress, titled "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," for the staggering sum of $106.5 million, a world record price for any work of art at auction. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is ...
Sotheby's begins sale of Albemarle House interiors
ArtfixDaily / June 7th, 2010
The contents of the opulent 45-room English country manor owned by vintner and philanthropist Patricia Kluge will be sold by Sotheby's June 8 and 9 at her estate near Charlottesville, Virginia. The collection is rich in Georgian furniture, decorative arts, and paintings, and estimated in excess ...
Monet may push Christie's auction to record total in U.K.
ArtfixDaily / June 3rd, 2010
A Claude Monet water-lily painting is expected to reach 40 million pounds ($58.6 million) at Christie's June 23 sale of Impressionist works in London. Together, Monet’s 1906 “Nympheas” and Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period “Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto” may push the sale total to between 163.7 ...
Cruise with Canaletto: National Gallery of Art offers summer fun for kids
ArtfixDaily / June 2nd, 2010
In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is a summer destination with a number of free, drop-in programs perfectly tailored for children of all ages. Among the many choices of art-centric activities is the Stories in Art series, beginning with a cycle of events themed "Explore ...
Four fairs burst on London antiques season
Financial Times / June 1st, 2010
The Financial Times has the low-down on the high art being offered at London antiques fairs this month. Timed to coincide with the major summer auctions are four fairs, beginning June 3-6 with West London Art and Antiques Fair. Next up is David and Lee Ann Lester's revamped Olympia, now dubbed ...
Richard Feigen art collection on view at Yale University Art Gallery
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2010
Art scholar, collector, and dealer Richard L. Feigen, who owns an eponymous art gallery in New York, is sharing his renowned personal art collection for the first time with the public. Yale University Art Gallery is hosting 60 of Feigen's early Italian paintings, considered to be among the finest ...
Destination London: The Masterpiece Fair is set to impress this June
ArtfixDaily / May 27th, 2010
The demise of the 75-year-old Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair last year perhaps paved the way for a new summer showcase for objects of desire: Masterpiece Fair 2010 London. Organizers plan to offer more than the traditional fair offerings of antiques and fine art. Wine, jewelry, ...
INTERPOL issues global alert for Paris art heist
ARTFIXdaily blogs / May 23rd, 2010
INTERPOL, the international police agency, issued a global alert on May 22 with images of five paintings which were stolen from the Modern Art Museum in Paris last Thursday. The move inidcates that French authorities suspect the paintings may have left the country, possibly through an organized ...
SFMOMA patrons rocked 75th birthday bash
San Francisco Chronicle / May 17th, 2010
Nearly 1,200 glittering guests feted the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's first seventy-five years on Friday. The art museum hosted 550 gallerists, museum directors, artists and art collectors at a $50,000-a-table private dinner and several hundred more patrons came for the late night ...
Who's hot list
Wall Street Journal / May 16th, 2010
Monet, Renoir and Dali are among the artists who have weathered the recession well, according to the Wall Street Journal. New buyers, such as China's emerging wealthy elite, are stepping up to buy pretty pictures by the big names of Impressionism and early Modernists. "Before the crisis, people ...
New antiques show this weekend in Boston 'burbs
Wicked Local / May 13th, 2010
Nearly 50 art and antique dealers will exhibit at the inaugural Wayside Inn Antiques Show, Friday through Sunday, in Sudbury, Mass. A portion of the proceeds from the show will be donated to the Wayside Inn Historic Site, the nonprofit corporation that oversees the sprawling 122-acre grounds ...
$4 million Monet donated to Canadian museum
CBC News / May 6th, 2010
A Claude Monet painting depicting dramatic rock formations on the coast of Normandy has joined the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, reports CBC News. Montreal arts patron, collector and philanthropist Marjorie Bronfman has given Rock Needle seen through the ...
$150 million expansion illuminates VMFA collections
Daily Press / May 5th, 2010
The venerable Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has added 165,000-square-feet in order to properly display its immense holdings. Emerging from the vaults to new galleries will be the museum's Pre-Colombian and Native American collections. Permanent collection galleries will increase 50% in ...
Magritte monograph back in print
Luxist / May 5th, 2010
A new edition of Magritte, the masterful monograph on Rene Magritte by the late David Sylvester, an expert on the great Surrealist, will be republished by Abrams / Fonds Mercator after a decade of being out-of-print. Michel Draguet, director of the new Magritte Museum in Brussels, has updated ...
Picasso scores world record art price
Bloomberg / May 4th, 2010
Pablo Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” garnered $106.5 million Tuesday night at Christie’s International in New York, the highest amount ever paid for an artwork at auction. The coveted painting, from a series of Picasso's mistress Marie-Therese Walter, usurped the $104.2 million record ...
May madness art sales begin
Wall Street Journal / May 3rd, 2010
The media has widely reported that an art market rebound is in the cards this May when Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips de Pury hold their major Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions in New York. Beginning today, a two-week series of sales at these three auction houses alone ...
A-list office art in Iowa exhibition
Des Moines Register / May 3rd, 2010
Since the 1960s, the John Deere Company has decked out their Eero Saarinen-designed headquarters in Moline, Ill., with works by international A-listers such as Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Marc Chagall and the Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz. Their focus expanded to include a wide swath of ...