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$70 Million Van Gogh leads Sotheby’s November sale in New York
Vincent Van Gogh – Paysage sous un ciel mouvementé (1889) A late Van Gogh landscape, estimated to sell for $50 – 70 million, from Belgian collectors Louis and Evelyn Franck, who formed their collection...
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Looted? Roman Antiquity Ordered Returned to Turkey
This picture released on September 23, 2015 by the Office of the Attorney General of the Canton of Geneva, shows details of a marble Roman sarcophagus (Ad150-180) that the office has decided to give...
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National Gallery of Art acquires Important 17th century Dutch masterwork
Jacob OchterveltA Nurse and a Child in the Foyer of an Elegant Townhouse, 1663oil on canvas: 32 x 26 1/4 in. (81.5 x 66.8 cm)National Gallery of Art, WashingtonThe Lee and Juliet Folger FundClick on...
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Bruegel Masterpiece in Vienna alleged to be Nazi Loot
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559Oil-on-panel: 118 cm × 164 cm (46 in × 65 in)Kunsthistorisches Museum, ViennaClick on image to enlarge A front page (above the fold)...
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Tokyo Museum acquires important Manfredi painting from Robilant + Voena
Bartolomeo Manfredi’s The Capture of Christ (oil on canvas, 47-1/5 x 68-1/2 in.; 120 x 174 cm), was painted ca. 1613-1618 and inspired by Carvaggio’s The Taking of Christ (National Gallery of Ireland,...
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Major Art Theft from Museum in Verona
“Madonna of the Quail” by Antonio Pisano, better known as Pisanello, was one of seventeen works stolen from the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona. Seventeen Old Master paintings worth an estimated €15...
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Major Flop at Christie’s Old Masters Sale in London
Lot 15. Hans Hoffmann (Nuremberg 1545-1591 Prague) A hare among plantssigned twice with monogram and dated ‘Hh / 1582’ (upper centre), and ‘[…]582 / Hh’ (below the hare)watercolour and bodycolour with...
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Very Picky Buyer’s at Sotheby’s Old Masters Auction
Lot 6. Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse MAUBEUGE (?) CIRCA 1478 – 1532 ANTWERP (?) THE VIRGIN AND CHILDoil on oak panel: 38.9 by 26.6 cm.; 15 3/8 by 10 1/2 in.Estimate: £4-6 million. This lot sold for a...
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Three of Apollo’s Acquisitions of the Year
Lot 17. GIOVANNI DA RIMINIDOCUMENTED 1292 – 1309/14LEFT WING OF A DIPTYCH WITH EPISODES FROM THE LIVES OF THE VIRGIN AND OTHER SAINTS: THE APOTHEOSIS OF AUGUSTINE; THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN;...
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Florence’s Accademia exhibits work by “Eccentric” Renaissance Painter Carlo...
Carlo Portelli (d. 1574), Allegory of the Immaculate conception (1566), Galleria dell’Accademia The 16th century Italian Renaissance painter Carlo Portelli, who worked largely in Florence, is the...
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Prado Acquires Fra Angelico Masterwork for €18 Million
Detail – “The Virgin and Child with two Angels or The Virgin of the Pomegranate,” Guido di Pietro, known as Fra Angelico.Click on image to enlarge. It’s Old Masters Week in New York, but there’s big...
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Even in death, Taubman is still a drag on Sotheby’s with a sluggish Old...
Lot 62. THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH R.A. SUDBURY 1727 – 1788 LONDON THE BLUE PAGEOil on canvas, with an addition of approximately 3 1/2 inches across the bottom65 by 44 1/2 in.; 165.5 by 113 cm.Estimate: $3-4...
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The Getty buys $30 million Gentileschi, but nearly half the lots fail at...
Lot 41. ORAZIO GENTILESCHI PISA 1563 – 1639 LONDON DANAËoil on canvas: 63 ½ by 89 ¼ in.; 161.3 by 226.7 cm.Estimate: $25-35 million. This lot sold for a hammer price of $27 million ($30,490,000 with...
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Ex-con art dealer’s hoard of looted antiquities found in Switzerland
Robin Symes (inset) and one of the priceless discoveries Photo: © Ministère public genevois Italian authorities have located a cache of looted Roman and Etruscan antiquities purchased by one time art...
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Art Gallery of Ontario acquires Hammershøi painting-opening exhibition in April
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior with Four Etchings, 1905Oil on canvas: 62.0 x 51.2 cmArt Gallery of OntarioPurchased with the assistance of a Moveable Cultural Property grant accorded by the Department of...
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France and the Netherlands conclude $174 Million deal for Rembrandt portraits
The portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, painted by Rembrandt van Rijn just before their wedding in 1634.Click on image to enlarge. Agence France Presse reports that France and the...
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A Rare Poussin for the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon
Nicolas PoussinThe Death of Chioné, 1622-23Oil on canvas: 109,5 x 159,5 cmLyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts A rarely depicted scene from Ovid’s Metamorphosis is the subject of a Nicolas Poussin painting...
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The National Gallery of Art’s Exciting New Acquisitions
Frans van Mieris, An Interior with a Soldier Smoking a Pipe, c. 1657oil on panel: 32.4 x 25.4 cm (12 3/4 x 10 in.)National Gallery of Art, WashingtonThe Lee and Juliet Folger Fund/The Folger Fund A...
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Masterpieces at Maastricht – Highlights from 2016
Roelandt Savery (Kortrijk, 1576 – Utrecht, 1639), A still life of flowers in a vase with lizards, a rhinoceros-horn beetle and other insects in a niche with a trompe l’oeil gilt frameSigned and dated...
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Two major Twomblys at Sotheby’s this May
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1968 [New York City]Oil based houseplant, wax crayon on canvas: 60-5/8 x 68-1/2 inchesSigned, inscribed and dated verso upper left: Cy Twombly NYC 1968Catalogue Raisonne Vol. III,...
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