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The making of a New York treasure house
New York Times / April 30th, 2010
Among the sumptuous personal art galleries built in Gilded Age New York, tycoon Henry Clay Frick's Upper East Side mansion remains today as a temple of high art. Converted from a private home to a public museum after his death in 1931, the Frick's main gallery alone displays Rembrandt, El Greco, ...
Rare Guercino acquired by Kimbell Art Museum
DFW.com / April 30th, 2010
In memory of Edmund P. Pillsbury, director of the Kimbell Art Museum from 1980 to 1998, a 17th-century Italian baroque jewel has been added to the museum's collection. "Christ and the Woman of Samaria", c. 1619-20, by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, is a rare early work with a ...
"Claude Monet: Late Work" at Gagosian in New York
Bloomberg / April 30th, 2010
Twenty-seven masterpieces in “Claude Monet: Late Work,” which opened Saturday, include spellbinding works created in Giverny between 1892 and 1926, now on view in the heart of Chelsea's contemporary art scene. Hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen's 1906 water-lilies painting by the great French ...
More green shoots expected at blue-chip art sales
Luxist / April 29th, 2010
An art market barometer reading will be taken May 4 and 5 when the Impressionist and Modern Art sales are in full swing in New York. The return of minimum price guarantees has helped push top-tier works of art back to market. Among the offerings is the Mrs. Sidney Francis ...
Clars' browse-worthy May auction
Auction Central News / April 29th, 2010
Bolstered by four big estates, Clars' May 15-16 auction includes some important 17th and 18th century furnishings and a fine selection of art from Old Masters to contemporary artists. Asian art and jewelry round out the Oakland, Calif. firm's sale. Top-notch Western artists represented ...
Art dealer admits to selling $2 million fake Picasso
LA Times blog / April 27th, 2010
Los Angeles art and antiques dealer Tatiana Khan, 70, may serve prison time for selling a fake Picasso for $2 million. She agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud charges, authorities said Tuesday. The owner of Chateau Allegré gallery wove an elaborate web of lies regarding the provenace of the ...
When art museums become a brand
The Atlantic / April 27th, 2010
Mega-cafes and gift shops. Massive new spaces. Brand building and franchising. Kyle Chayka writes in The Atlantic, "Are Fine Art Museums the Next Starbucks?" "Institutions as diverse as New York's Whitney and Museum of Modern Art, DC's Corcoran and National Gallery and Philadelphia's Barnes ...
Peploe painting peaks at £520,000
Antiques Trade Gazette / April 26th, 2010
A new auction record has been set for any painting by a Scottish Colourist after Tulips by Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935) sold for £520,000, against a £300,000-500,000 pre-sale estimate, at Sotheby's on April 22. The previous record for a Peploe was £440,000 for Roses at Christie’s Scottish art ...
Sotheby's to sell Vollard's art collection
Mail online / April 22nd, 2010
About $26 million (£16million) worth of paintings once owned by legendary Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who died in 1939, will go under the hammer this June after decades in a bank vault. The 141 paintings, including works by Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso and Andre Derain, will be sold ...
Undercover agent in Gardner heist spills the beans
New York Times blog / April 21st, 2010
Robert K. Wittman, a retired F.B.I. special agent, has a book coming out that asserts his efforts to recover masterpieces stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum were undone by infighting at the bureau. Wittman says he had a lead in the biggest art heist in U.S. history, in which ...
Country house sale: Givenchy gowns to sporting art
Luxist / April 21st, 2010
The contents of billionaire Patricia Kluge's Albemarle House, a lavish take on high-style country living in the English tradition, will be auctioned by Sotheby's on June 8 and 9. The grand 45-room estate in Albermarle County, Va., will be open May 31 for buyers of the auction catalog to preview ...
Museum mistakes exposed in London show
Guardian / April 20th, 2010
The National Gallery in London will be showing off some embarrassing acquistions and misleading gifts in its major exhibition called Close Examination opening in June. Works once-removed from the gallery's walls for their dubious nature are being exhumed from the vaults. One of the museum's ...
LACMA committee steps up for new acquisitions
LA Times / April 19th, 2010
More than six dozen couples helped raise $1.8 million for new acquistions to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collections over the weekend. The Annual Collectors Committee Weekend has been likenend to an "American Idol" competition with several curators taking stage to passionately promote ...
John Deere art collection revealed
Quad Cities Online (PR) / April 19th, 2010
Coming to public view for the first time, the John Deere company's art collection will be unveiled April 24, in Davenport, Iowa, at the David Chipperfield-designed Figge Art Museum. Begun in 1965, the collection includes works by such artists as Grant Wood, Edward Curtis, Joan Miro, Henri de ...
High Museum holdings boosted by gift of French art
Atlanta Business Journal / April 14th, 2010
Atlanta's High Museum of Art will receive 47 works of art, dating from fin-de-siécle Paris, including prized examples by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin and Degas. One highlight of the gift, which is strong in French drawings and prints, is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's “La Clownesse au Moulin Rouge” ...
Artnet pushes for profits in online auctions
Skate's Market Notes / April 13th, 2010
After reviewing artnet's 2009 annual report, Skate's remains skeptical of the company's online auction strategy as a revenue source. Revenues, which are largely based on its price database, advertising and a gallery network, were down 5.6% compared to 2008 due to the auction segment. ...
All eyes on Spring art auctions
Luxist / April 12th, 2010
The May and June sales at the major auction houses will be closely watched to see if the art market is truly rebounding from the credit crisis-induced slump. Following the winter surprise of the record-smashing $104.3 million Giacometti price, hopes are high for strong sales of important ...
National Gallery of Art's "Hendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age"
Washington Post / April 7th, 2010
Icy snow is a visual treat in Washington, D.C. this Spring, at least in pictures. On view at the National Gallery is the work of Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) whose paintings of winter wonderlands depict people of all classes cavorting and working outdoors. Part landscape, part ...
Six museum (re)openings keep art fresh this Spring
MSNBC / April 6th, 2010
New or newly expanded museums around the country this spring will showcase everything from Tiffany lamps to Wyeth paintings, as well as some cutting-edge new architecture to house it all. “Wyeth: An American Legacy, Treasures from the Farnsworth Art Museum” and Japanese woodblock prints are on ...
Ted Pillsbury left a legacy rich in art
The Dallas Morning News / April 6th, 2010
The death last month of Edmund P. "Ted" Pillsbury, a major player on the American art museum scene, was a suicide, his family said Monday. An earlier statement said his March 25 death was due to a heart attack. Dr. Pillsbury, 66, was chairman of fine arts at Heritage Auction Galleries in ...