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LACMA Gets Baroque Masterpiece – formerly Nazi Loot
The life-size figure of St. Catherine of Alexandria, painted in Genoa around 1615 by Bernardo Strozzi, was installed Monday in the third floor galleries for European art at the Los Angeles County...
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Pair of Canalettos leads Sotheby’s December 2013 Evening Sale of Old Masters...
Lot 39. GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO, VENICE 1697 – 1768VENICE, THE GRAND CANAL LOOKING NORTH-EAST FROM THE PALAZZO DOLFIN-MANIN TO THE RIALTO BRIDGEOne of a pair, both oil on canvaseach:...
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Elegant and rare 17th Italian Baroque painting for sale in Paris – UPDATED
Giovanni Battista BONCORI (Campli 1643 – Rome 1699) The prophet Elijah rescued by an angelOil on canvas: 198 x 120 cm; old restorations, frameless Estimate: €50,000-70,000. This lot sold for €94,734...
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Allegedly Looted Ancient Cambodian Statue to be Repatriated
This 10th-century Khmer sculpture will be repatriated to Cambodia following a settlement agreement. In a significant development, a settlement has been reached in the multi-year dispute between...
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Newly Discovered $7.5 million Honthorst leads Sotheby’s Jan. 2014 Old Master...
Lot 34. GERRIT VAN HONTHORSTUTRECHT 1590 – 1656A MERRY GROUP BEHIND A BALUSTRADE WITH A VIOLIN AND A LUTE PLAYERsigned lower center: GH (in ligature) onthorst. fecoil on canvas39 1/4 by 54 1/2 in.;...
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Beautiful $13.6 Million Book of Hours and Choice $8.9 million Bassano lead...
Lot 157. THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK, A BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF ROME, IN LATIN, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM[Ghent or Bruges, c.1505-1510]228 x 160mm. 252 leaves.Estimate $12-18 million. This lot sold...
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One Italian Baroque Painting – Nine months later it’s three times the price
ALESSANDRO MAGNASCO, GENOA 1667 – 1749JOSEPH INTERPRETS THE DREAMS OF THE PHARAOH’S SERVANTS WHILST IN JAILoil on canvas: 52 4/5 by 69 in.; 134 by 177 cm. The standout in Sotheby’s current selling...
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Large, Opulent 17th Dutch still life among National Gallery of Art’s notable...
Pieter Claesz, Dutch, 1596/1597 – 1660Still Life with Peacock Pie, 1627oil on panel. 77.5 x 128.9 cmNational Gallery of Art, Washington, The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund The National Gallery of Art has...
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Reclusive heiress’ $35 million Monet painting featured in May 2014 auction
Claude Monet, Nymphéas, 1907Estimate: $25-35 million. Christie’s will be offering property from estate of Huguette Clark, the reclusive heiress who died in May 2011 at the age of 104. As the New York...
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Extraordinary and Rare Bronze Statue discovered in Gaza – but where?
Thanks to Looting Matters for this fascinating story. Bloomberg’s Vernon Silver reports in The Apollo of Gaza about the discovery last year of an ancient male nude bronze statue purportedly in waters...
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$28.8 million Richter Leads Sotheby’s Feb. 2014 Contemporary Art Sales in London
Lot 12. GERHARD RICHTER B.1932, WAND (WALL)signed, numbered 806 and dated 1994 on the reverseoil on canvas: 240 by 240cm.; 94 1/2 by 94 1/2 in.Estimate Upon Request (in excess of £15m/$25m). This lot...
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$70 million Bacon Leads Christie’s Feb. 2014 Contemporary Art Sale in London
Lot 10. Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Portrait of George Dyer Talkingtitled and dated ‘Portrait of George Dyer Talking 1966′ (on the reverse)oil on canvas: 78 x 58in. (198.2 x 147.3cm.), Painted in...
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A Rediscovered Caravaggesque Masterwork by Bartolomeo Manfredi
Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582-1622)The Crowning of Thorns, c. 1615Oil on canvas – 157 x 233 cmLe Mans, Musée TesséPhoto : Musée Tessé (click on image to enlarge) After removing years of accumulated dirt,...
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Rare Madonna and Child by Mabuse heads Up Koller’s March 28, 2014 Zurich Old...
Lot 3017. JAN GOSSAERT, called MABUSE (Maubeuge 1478 – 1532 Antwerp)Madonna and Child. ca. 1530.Oil on wood 44.5 x 34 cm.Estimate: CHF 1.8-2.2 million. (€1,500,000-1,833,330) The March 28, 2104 sale of...
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Big Discount – Newly discovered $200 Million Leonardo Painting sold for $75...
Christ as Salvator Mundi, c. 1500Oil on panel: 26 x 18 inches A newly attributed and heavily restored painting by Leonardo da Vinci, which had been shopped to the Dallas Museum of Art in summer of 2012...
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Nice antiquities – where did they come from? Nagging questions about provenance
Lot 77. An Apulian Red-Figured Bell Krater – detail. Attributed to the Schiller Painter, circa 380-370 BCEstimate: £10,000-15,000 ($17,000-25,000)Earliest dated provenance: “with V. Rosenbaum, Galleria...
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MoMA to show new work by Jasper Johns
A work in Jasper Johns’s “Regrets” series, from last year. The works will be on display at MoMA beginning on March 15. Credit Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York New York’s Museum of Modern Art...
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Kimbell Art Museum Purchases Major 17th Century Dutch Landscape Painting by...
Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/29-1682)Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield, c. 1656Oil on canvas, 41 x 57 ½ in. (103.8 x 146.2 cm)Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas has...
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Bombshell – Prized British Museum Treasure Declared a Fake
The Warren Cup, Bittir (ancient Bethther), near Jerusalem, Roman, AD 5 – 15Height: 11 cm Width: 9.9 cm (max.) Depth: 11 cmRoom 70: Roman EmpireAcquired with the assistance of The Art Fund, the British...
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Rare Archaic Chinese Bronze Owl Tanks at Sotheby’s
Lot 18. A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT BRONZE OWL-HEADED RITUAL WINE VESSEL (HU)EARLY EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY,8TH-7TH CENTURY BCthe stoutly cast pear-shaped body encircled by thirty horizontal grooves and...
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