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Twelfth Arson Attack in 18 months at Visionary Detroit Art Installation
Part of the Heidelberg Project in Detroit. Image © The Cultural Landscape Foundation. The Heidelberg Project, a singular and inspiring multi-block art installation in Detroit created over the space of...
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A Luminous £15-20 Million Turner of Rome leads Sotheby’s December 2014 Old...
Lot 44. JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. LONDON 1775 – 1851 ROME, FROM MOUNT AVENTINEoil on canvas, unlined: 92.7 by 125.7 cm.; 36 1/2 by 49 1/2 in.Estimate: £15-20 million.Click on image to...
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Christie’s Pulls Contested Antiquity from Upcoming Sale
Lot 85. A SARDINIAN MARBLE FEMALE IDOLOZIERI CULTURE, CIRCA 2500-2000 B.C.13 ¾ in. (34.9 cm.) longEstimate: $800,000-1,200,000.Provenancewith Harmon Fine Arts, New York.with The Merrin Gallery, New...
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Van Dyck Portrait Leads Christie’s December 2014 Old Masters Sale
Lot 13. Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London) Portrait of Hendrick Liberti (c. 1600-1669), half-length, in black, with three gold chains, holding a sheet of music, by a columnoil on canvas:...
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“Merry XMAS to Me”: Virginia Museum of Art Buys an Intriguing 17th Cent....
Mattia Preti (Italian, 1613–1619), The Visitation, oil on canvas, 47 5/16”H × 67 1/32”W. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment.Click on image to enlarge. The...
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Barnes Foundation Hires Thom Collins as New Director – Comes from Perez Art...
Thomas Collins Credit Sergi Alexander/Getty Images Breaking News – According to the New York Times, Thomas Collins (known as Thom), director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, previously known as the Miami...
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Numerous Highlights in Sotheby’s January 2015 Old Masters Sale in New York
Lot 83. HUBERT ROBERT PARIS 1733 – 1808VILLA FARNESE WITH GARDENS AT CAPRAROLAsigned at the base of the staircase: INVE / ROBERToil on canvas: 18 by 28 in.; 45.5 by 71.5 cm.Estimate:...
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Two Exceptional Male Nudes at Christie’s – SFW
Lot 52. A BRONZE FIGURE OF HERCULES POMARIUS (Detail)BY WILLEM DANIELSZ. VAN TETRODE (C. 1525-1580), THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURYOn a later spreading ebonized wood plinth15¼ in. (39 cm.) high; 21¼ in....
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Report: Record €50m hoard of looted Italian antiquities unveiled by police
A carabiniere guards the archeological treasures at the Terme di Diocleziano museum in Rome, Italy. Photograph: Claudio Peri/EPA An amazing report out from the Guardian … and there’s a YouTube video...
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Retreads and an Early Caravaggio in Christie’s January 2015 Old Masters sale
Lot 129. Agnolo Bronzino (Florence 1503-1572), Portrait of a young man with a bookoil on poplar panel: 37 x 30¾ in. (94 x 78 cm.)Estimate: $8-12 million. Christie’s January 28, 2015 sale of Old Master...
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Frankfurt’s Städel Museum Acquires an Early, Lost Guido Reni Painting
GUIDO RENI(Calvenzano 1575 – 1642 Bologna) Assumption of Mary. Around 1596-97. Oil on copper. 58 x 44.4 cm. Frankfurt’s Städel Museum has acquired an early oil on copper by the Bolognese painter Guido...
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Are these Michelangelo’s only surviving bronzes?
Victoria Avery of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, said the project to attribute the bronzes, involving a team of experts from different fields, had been like a Renaissance whodunnit. Photograph:...
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Did this Gauguin Painting Sell for nearly $300 Million?
“Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)” by Paul Gauguin. Credit Artothek/Associated Press.Click on image to enlarge. A report out from Scott Reyburn and Doreen Carvajal at the New York Times says an...
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Jean-Luc Baroni Donates Long Lost “Allegory of Virtue” to the Uffizi
Jacopo Ligozzi – Verona circa 1547-1627 FlorenceThe Allegory of Virtue, Love Defending Virtue against Ignorance and PrejudiceOil on canvas: 345 x 228 cms. (135 ½ x 89 ½ in.)Click on image to enlarge....
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Stolen Italian Old Master Painting and Etruscan Statuette Returned by the FBI
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696 – 1770)The Holy Trinity appearing to Saint ClementOil on canvas: 22.22 x 12.48 inches. An oil sketch by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo stolen from a private home in Turin,...
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In ancient Nimrud –“A major crime against the entire world”
A relief of a mythological creature in the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud, Iraq. Militants used bulldozers and other vehicles to vandalize the site. Credit DeAgostini/Getty Images The images are...
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At TEFAF, the Rijksmuseum buys a Rare and Dramatic Dutch Old Master Painting
JAN ASSELIJN DIEPPE AFTER 1610 – 1652 AMSTERDAMTHE BREACH OF THE SINT ANTHONISDIJK ON THE NIGHT OF 5–6 MARCH 1651dated and monogrammed lower right: 1651 / JAoil on canvas: 85.5 by 108.2 cm.; 33 3/4 by...
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Picasso Painting Could Break $142 Million Auction Record
Pablo Picasso, Women of Algiers (Version O), 1955. Click on image to enlarge. The Wall Street Journal’s Kelly Crow reports that Christie’s will offer a Picasso painting at its May 11 auction in New...
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May Monet Madness – Seven paintings could bring more than $150 million
Claude Monet, “Le Parlement,” 1902. Oil on canvas. Estimate: US$35-45 million. Now that the NCAA play-offs are over and Duke has won – again – let’s get ready the next bout of group hysteria, the May...
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$20 Million Hopper leads Christie’s American Art Auction
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Two Puritans, oil on canvas, painted in 1945.Estimate: $20,000,000 – 30,000,000.Click on image to enlarge. Christie’s has just announced the star lot in their May 21 sale of...
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