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More than $20 Million for Massive Ancient Chinese Bronze Wine Vessel at...
Lot 1888. A MAGNIFICENT AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT MASSIVE BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, FANGLEILATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH/11TH CENTURY BCThe decoration on each of the four sides of the broad,...
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Sublime and Beautiful – and Questionable Provenance – Christie’s Asian Art...
Lot 1600. AN IMPORTANT AND IMPRESSIVE GREY SCHIST FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVAGANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURYThe bodhisattva is standing in a relaxed pose, with his weight resting on his right leg and his left...
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$15 Million Pollock Featured Christie’s May 2104 Post-War and Contemporary...
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)Number 5 (Elegant Lady), 1951Estimate: US$ 15-20 Million.© 2014 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York It’s time to start chumming the waters for...
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Brueghel, Natoire, and Hallé works featured at Artcurial Auction in Paris...
Lot 86. Carlos Schwabe Altona-Hambourg, 1866 – Avon, 1926La VagueMine de plombMonogrammé en bas à droite‘THE WAVE’, PENCIL, MONOGRAMMED, BY C. SCHWABEh: 29 w: 21 cmEstimate: €6,000-8,000. Tajan’s March...
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Another Provenance-challenged Pre-Columbian Art auction in Paris, March 2014
Lot 24. Important Sitting PersonCulture Jama – Coaque, Manabí, Ecuador500 BC to AD 500H. 40,5 cm – L. 23 cmEstimate: €20,000-30,000.Provenance – Private French Collection The 158-lot Pre-Columbian art...
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Qatar provides $135 Million for Sudanese Archaeological Heritage
The Gulf state of Qatar is providing $135 million in funding for Sudan’s archaeological heritage, according to a report from Agence France Presse. According to the article: The money will support 29...
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Kunsthaus Zurich Acquires Giovanni Lanfranco’s “Rinaldo’s Farewell to Armida”...
Giovanni Lanfranco(Parma 1582 – Rome 1647)Rinaldo’s Farewell to ArmidaOil on Canvas, 43 x 70 In.Signed and dated on the hull of the ship: «IOA.S LANFRANCUS PARM/1614»Click on image to enlarge. At the...
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Newly Discovered Pieter Brueghel the Younger “Census at Bethlehem” in Paris...
Pieter BRUEGHEL II (Anvers 1564-1637/38)et Joos de MOMPER II (Anvers 1564-1635)Le dénombrement de BethléemPanneau parqueté88,5 x 121,5 cmEstimate: €500,000-600,000.Click on image to enlarge. A newly...
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Give it Back – UK Panel Says Tate Museum Must Return Constable Painting...
John Constable (1776-1837), “Beaching a Boat, Brighton” (1824)Oil paint on paper on canvas: 248 x 294 mmClink on image to enlarge. A UK panel has concluded a John Constable painting in the collection...
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Crimean Crisis Could Strand Hundreds of Ancient Gold Antiquities
The fate of hundreds of artifacts on loan from four Crimean museums currently on view at the Allard Pearson Museum in Amsterdam is up in the air following Russia’s recent annexation of the former...
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Wadsworth Atheneum Acquires an Artemisia Gentileschi Self-Portrait
Lot 36. Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome 1593-1654 Naples)Self-Portrait as a Lute Playeroil on canvas30½ x 28¼ in. (77.5 x 71.8 cm.)Estimate: $3-5 million. Bidding on this lot stopped at $2.0 million and it...
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Hazy History for some Antiquities at Bonham’s, April 2014 – UPDATED
Lot 67. A Roman marble portrait head of the Emperor Septimius Severus, Circa 194 A.D.Slightly over-lifesized, depicted with his head turned to his right, his thick curling hair and beard with drilled...
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It’s a Fake – Not a £20 Million El Greco Portrait
ART expert Antonio Garcia has produced a 60-page report that states the 16th century painting Lady in a Fur Wrap (above), usually displayed in Glasgow’s Pollok House, was not created by the artist El...
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Rouen’s Musée des Beaux-Arts Acquires a Rare and Dramatic 17th Century French...
Lot 29. ADRIEN SACQUESPEE (CAUDEBEC-EN-CAUX 1629-1692)Christ en croixsigné et daté ‘Sacquespe pinxit./.1656′ (sur le pied de la croix)huile sur toile: 83 x 49 cm.Estimate: €15,000-20,000...
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Tennis Great Ivan Lendl sells all 116 of his Art Nouveau Alfons Mucha posters
Alfons Mucha – Summer According to the Prague Post, Businessman Richard Fuxa has bought a very valuable collection of 116 posters by Czech Art Nouveau artist Alfons Mucha (1860–1939) from legendary...
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$30 Million Jean-Michel Basquiat At Christie’s May 2014 Contemporary Art Sale...
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Untitledacrylic and oil stick on canvas: 68 x 103 in. (172.7 x 261.6 cm.)Executed in 1981Estimate: $20-30 million. Click on image to enlarge. Christie’s has just...
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Chrysler Museum receives bequest of European Old Master paintings, sculpture,...
Cornelis van Cleve, Flemish, 1520-1567, Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and AngelsOil on panel: 22 3/8 x 20 1/8 in. (56.8 x 51.1 cm) The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA,...
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Monet, Picasso and Modigliani lead Christie’s Impressionist and Modern sale...
Lot 5. AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (1884-1920), Jeune homme roux assis, signed ‘modigliani’ (upper left)oil on canvas: 39½ x 25 5/8 in. (100.5 x 65 cm.), Painted in 1919Estimate: $8-12 million. The art auction...
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Giacometti, Monet, Picasso and Matisse lead Sotheby’s May 2014 Impressionist...
Lot 8. HENRI MATISSE, 1869 – 1954, LA SÉANCE DU MATINSigned Henri Matisse (lower right)Oil on canvas: 29 1/8 by 24 in. or 74 by 61 cm, Painted in 1924.Estimate: $20-30 million. The Evening Sale of...
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“If I Live I’ll See You Tuesday”– Evening Sale May 12, 2014 at Christie’s New...
Lot 2. Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Untitled, signed and dated ‘WOOL 1990′ (on the reverse)alkyd and graphite on paper: 32 3/8 x 22 in. (82.2 x 55.8 cm.), Painted in 1990.Estimate: $1-1.5 million. Click...
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