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$16.9 Million Guardi View of Venice leads Christie’s Rocky July 2014 Old...
Lot 19. Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)Venice, the Bacino di San Marco with the Piazzetta and the Doge‟s PalaceOil on canvas: 27 3⁄8 x 40 1⁄8 in. (69.5 x 102 cm.)Estimate: £8-10 million/ $13-16.5 million...
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Rare Jan van Mieris Self-Portrait Acquired by Leiden’s Museum De Lakenhal
Jan van Mieris (1660-1690) Self-portrait,1685Oil on canvas: 80.4 x 64.3 cmLeiden, Museum De Lakenhal.Photo : Bob Haboldt & Co The Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden, The Netherlands, has acquired a rare...
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Sotheby’s Record Breaking $117 million July 2014 Old Masters Evening Sale in...
Lot 22. GEORGE STUBBS, A.R.A. LIVERPOOL 1724 – 1806 LONDON ‘TYGERS AT PLAY’oil on canvas: 101.5 by 127 cm.; 40 by 50 in.Estimate: £4-6 million. This lot sold for a hammer price of £6.8 million...
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Boston MFA’s Provenance Research Reveals The Illicit Trade In African...
Nord Wennerstrom:This is a worthwhile read. Originally posted on CHASING APHRODITE: Last month the Boston Museum of Fine Arts voluntarily returned to Nigeria eight works of art — ranging from a...
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Large Guercino Painting Stolen From Italian Church
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino (1591-1666)The Virgin and St. John the Evangelist and St. Gregory Wonderworker, 1639Oil on canvas: 293 x 184,5 cmStolen August 2014 form the Church of San...
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An Elegant Sienese Madonna and Child in Munich
Girolamo del Pacchia, 1477 Siena – c. 1530, attributedVIRGIN WITH THE CHILD AND SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, WITH THE SAINT FRANCIS WHO RECEIVES THE STIGMATA IN THE BACKGROUNDOil on panel. Tondo diameter:...
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Three New Acquisitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Portrait of a Woman, Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) (Italian, Genoa 1639–1709 Rome) ca. 1670sOil on canvas: 28 5/8 × 23 1/4 in. (72.7 × 59.1 cm)Gift of Álvaro Saieh Bendeck, Jean-Luc Baroni,...
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Rare Unpublished Goffredo Wals Painting at Dorotheum
Lot 15. Goffredo Wals (Cologne 1590/95–1638/40 Calabria) Ships landing in a portoil on panel: diameter 21 cm, framedEstimate: €15,000-20,000Click on image to enlarge There are perhaps three dozen or so...
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A rare and impressive Frans Verbeeck “The Mocking of Human Follies” at Dorotheum
Lot 33. Frans Verbeeck (Mechelen c. 1510–1570) The Mocking of Human Follies,oil on canvas: 135 x 188 cm, framedEstimate: €900,000 – 1,200,000Click on image to enlarge An exceptional and...
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A Newly Discovered Caravaggio
Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy – The painting refers to the legend in which Mary Magdalene, living as a hermit in a cave in southern France near Aix-en-Provence after Christ’s death, was overcome seven...
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A Pair of Very Rare Panel Paintings by Matteo Giovannetti at Lempertz
Lot 1007. Matteo Giovannettidocumented in Viterbo and Avignon 1322 – 1369Saint Catherine of AlexandriaTempera on panel: Each 64 x 17 cm.Estimate: €700,000-800,000. (one of a pair of paintings) A pair...
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$100.9 Million Giacometti – A Monster Price for a Slender Sculpture
Lot 25. ALBERTO GIACOMETTI 1901 – 1966 CHARIOTInscribed with the signature A. Giacometti, with foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris and numbered 2/6Painted bronze on wooden base, Height: 57 in....
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$39.9 Million Rothko Leads $158.7 Million Sale of Art from Bunny Mellon’s Estate
Lot 6. MARK ROTHKO 1903 – 1970 UNTITLEDoil on canvas: 68 by 54 in. – 172.7 by 137.2 cm.Executed in 1970.Estimate: $15-20 million. This lot sold for $39,925,000 ($35.5 million hammer price plus...
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$44.9 Million Rothko leads $343.6 Million Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s
Lot 27. ANDY WARHOL 1928 – 1987 LIZ #3 [EARLY COLORED LIZ]acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas: 40 x 40 in. – 101.6 x 101.6 cm.Executed in October – November 1963.Estimate on request. This lost sold...
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$81.9 Million Warhol of Elvis Tops Christie’s Record Breaking $852.8 Million...
Lot 9. Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Triple Elvis [Ferus Type]signed, titled and dated ‘elvis Andy Warhol 63′ (on the reverse)silkscreen ink and silver paint on linen: 82 x 69 in. (208.3 x 175.3 cm.)Painted...
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A Beautiful 16th Century Italian Panel Painting at Auction in Paris
Master of the Cassoni Campana Active in Florence in the early sixteenth centuryEurydice and her companionsOil on panel: Height: 58 Width: 145 cmEstimate: €350,000-550,000.Click on image to enlarge. The...
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Sweden’s Nationalmuseum Acquires 17th Century Italian Baroque Fetti Painting...
Domenico Fetti (?Rome 1588/9-1623 Venice)David with the head of Goliathoil on canvas: 63¼ x 39 in. (160.7 x 99.1 cm.) A 17th century Italian Baroque painting by Domenico Fetti, David with the Head of...
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A Long Lost Sculpture Valued at $15-25 Million at Christie’s Extraordinary Sale
Nested within Christie’s December 11, 2014 Exceptional Sale is a 368-year-old bronze by one of the most important European sculptors of the 16th/17th century, Adrian de Vries – a work that has been...
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SCOOP: Bowers Museum will return 500+ Thai antiquities seized during 2008 raids
Nord Wennerstrom:An article well worth reading. Originally posted on CHASING APHRODITE: On the front page of this month’s The Art Newspaper I report that the Bowers Museum of Art has agreed to return...
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Will Lack of Pre-1970 Provenance Spook Antiquities Buyers?
Cover image of Christie’s Antiquities Auction in New York, December 11, 2014. The object shown, Lot 140, a 1st century AD Roman marble portrait of Alexander the Great, has a provenance dating only to...
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