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Iffy Attributions for some Old Master paintings at Dorotheum’s April sale –...
Lot 643. Guido Reni(Bologna 1575–1642)The Adoration of the Shepherds,oil on copper, 48 x 38 cm, framedEstimate: €50,000-70,000. This lot sold for €55,200. The April 17, 2013 Old Master paintings sale...
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In Paris – Another provenance-challenged pre-Columbian art auction – UPDATED...
Lot 28 (detail). Head of a dignitary. Maya Culture, GuatemalaA.D. 600 – 900White stucco with brick-red and turquoise paintH. 12.8 in – W. 11.8 in – D. 8.7 inEstimate: €100,000-120,000. This lot sold...
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Elite Helly Nahmad Gallery Raided in Gambling and Money Laundering...
Federal agents removed computers from the Helly Nahmad Gallery located inside the Carlyle Hotel on Tuesday. UPDATE: Bloomberg’s Katya Kazakina reports the Helly Nahmad Gallery has reopened following...
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Soutine and Derain lead Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Auction – UPDATED...
Lot 21. Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)Le petit pâtissiersigned ‘Soutine’ (lower right)oil on canvas: 30 1/8 x 27 1/8 in. (76.5 x 68.9 cm.)Painted circa 1927Estimate: $16–22 million. This lot sold for a...
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Cézanne, Modigliani and hyperbolic auction notes lead Sotheby’s May 2013...
Lot 7. PAUL CÉZANNE1839 – 1906LES POMMESOil on canvas: 15 1/8 by 18 1/8 in.38.5 by 46 cmPainted in 1889-90Estimate: $25-35 million. This lot sold for a hammer price of $37 million. The Sotheby’s May...
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Metropolitan and Israel Museum Acquire rare 15th Mishneh Torah
MISHNEH TORAH, MAIMONIDES, WITH HAGAHOT MAIMUNIYYOT AND TESHUVOT MAIMUNIYYOT, NORTHERN ITALY, CA. 1457 The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Israel Museum have jointly acquired a rare 15th century...
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Metropolitan Museum Returning Two 10th Century Statues Looted from Cambodia
One of two “Kneeling Attendants” the Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Cambodia. Breaking news from the New York Times: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to return to Cambodia two...
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Sinuous, poetic, inspired and really beautiful – a stone and bamboo garden in...
Bamboo trees sprouted up around a topographical landscape of stone and water at this installation created by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in Milan last month. (Click image to enlarge.) This image,...
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Magoon Sculpture Garden in Aspen, CO – Great Collection Amazing View
My feature article about the Magoon Sculpture Garden in Aspen, Colorado has just been published in the May 2013 edition of Landscape Architecture magazine. The collection – and the collectors – are a...
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At Heritage Art Auction’s pre-Columbian sale – nearly 200 works – all with...
Lot 54316. A LARGE VERAGUAS GOLD PENDANT REPRESENTING AN EAGLE. c. 900 – 1200 ADPerhaps a harpy eagle with its wings extended and its feet posed as if for landing. The eagle carries a small animal in...
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Has the Getty spent Tens of Millions of Dollars on a Small and Exquisite...
The Getty’s newest purchase: ‘Rembrandt Laughing’ by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, oil on copper, 8 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles / May 9, 2013) The Getty has recently...
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Silvery $25 million Jackson Pollock painting leads Christie’s Contemporary...
Lot 18. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)Number 19, 1948signed and dated ‘Jackson Pollock 48′ (upper left)oil and enamel on paper mounted on canvas30 7/8 x 22 5/8 in. (78.4 x 57.4 cm.)Painted in...
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Big, Blue $30 million Newman “Zip” Painting leads Sotheby’s Contemporary Art...
Lot 17. BARNETT NEWMAN1905 – 1970ONEMENT VIsigned and dated 1953 in dark blue paint on lower right corneroil on canvas102 x 120 in. 259.1 x 304.8 cmEstimate; $30-40 million. A big, bold, blue Barnet...
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Restituted Dutch Old Master painting leads Christie’s June 2013 Sale –...
Lot 108. Gerrit van Honthorst (Utrecht 1592-1656)The Duetsigned and dated ‘GHonthorst.fe 1624.’ (upper right)oil on canvas30¾ x 37¼ in. (78 x 94.5 cm.)Estimate: $2-3 million. This lot sold for a hammer...
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Brueghel, the Old Masters workhorse, leads Sotheby’s June 2013 sale – UPDATED...
Lot 29. PIETER BRUEGHEL THE YOUNGERBRUSSELS 1564 – 1637/8 ANTWERPSPRINGsigned lower left: P. BRE [VGHEL with strengthening]oil on panel16 1/2 by 22 1/2 in.; 41.9 by 57.2 cm.Estimate: $700,000 –...
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Dozens of Antiquities lack dated pre-1970 provenance at Christie’s and...
Sotheby’s Lot 18. A MARBLE HEAD OF HERAKLES, ROMAN IMPERIAL, 2ND CENTURY A.D.perhaps a portrait of Emperor Commodus, turned to his right, with thick unruly hair and beard, long moustache, large eyes...
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Dutch Gov’t Panel Rejects Restitution Claims – Heirs Outraged
“Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well” by Bernardo Strozzi is to remain in the collection of the Museum de Fundatie in Heino, the Netherlands. The Dutch Restitutions Committee ruled that a claim...
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Munich’s Gorny & Mosch Auctioning Hundreds of Antiquities lacking pre-1970...
Lot 2. Greece, late 5th – 1 Half of the 4th century BC, finely crystalline marble. Under life-size, H 13cm.Estimate: €10,000Provenance: Swiss Private Collection 1975 The June 19, 2013, 784-lot auction...
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New Acquisitions by the Met, LACMA, Nat’l Galleries of Scotland & the Meadows
Jan van Huysum, Still Life of Roses, Tulips, Peonies and other Flowers in a Sculpted Vase and a Bird’s Nest on a Ledge, about 1718. Scottish National Gallery. Oil on copper. Photo © Chris Watt....
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£7 Million Steen Tanks at Christie’s July 2013 Old Masters sale – UPDATED...
Lot 14. Jan Steen (Leiden 1626-1679)‘Easy Come, Easy Go’: the artist eating oysters in an interiorsigned and dated ‘Jan Steen. 1660′ (lower left)oil on canvas41½ x 52¾ in. (102.8 x 133.9 cm.)in a...
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