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Christie’s Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings
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Christie’s Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings

On Tuesday, June 2nd, Christie’s New York hosted their Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings auction. The expected star of the sale was a bust-length portrait attributed to El Greco. While the painting cannot be definitively attributed to the Greek-born … More…

Mitsuru Watanabe Shines at Christie’s
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Mitsuru Watanabe Shines at Christie’s

When one of the historical artists we specialize in has a painting come up at auction, we pay extra attention to the results. It offers a bit of a litmus test of the market for their works. However, when one … More…

Met Museum & Neue Galerie Announce Merger
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Met Museum & Neue Galerie Announce Merger

The Neue Galerie, one of the top attractions on New York’s Museum Mile, has announced a merger with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Founded in 2001 by art collector and philanthropist Ronald Lauder, the Neue Galerie was created to showcase … More…

Looted Painting Found With Nazi Collaborator’s Heirs
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Looted Painting Found With Nazi Collaborator’s Heirs

A looted painting has been discovered in the possession of the descendants of a Dutch man who collaborated with the Nazis during the occupation of the Netherlands. Toon Kelder was a Dutch painter who lived and worked in the Hague. … More…

The Newhouse Collection at Christie’s
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The Newhouse Collection at Christie’s

On Monday, May 18th, Christie’s Rockefeller Center location in New York hosted the sale featuring the art collection of S.I. Newhouse. Through the company Advance Publications, Newhouse and his brother Donald operated the parent company of dozens of local newspapers … More…

Musée d’Orsay Exhibits Nazi-Looted Art
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Musée d’Orsay Exhibits Nazi-Looted Art

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris will dedicate a gallery to exhibiting works of art looted during the Second World War. After the war, many European governments, including France, took it upon themselves to track down the owners of artworks and … More…

The Mnuchin Collection at Sotheby’s
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The Mnuchin Collection at Sotheby’s

On Thursday, May 14th, Sotheby’s location in New York hosted the first of its May Marquee sales with the collection of Robert Mnuchin. Formerly an executive at Goldman Sachs, Mnuchin retired from banking in 1990 to pursue art collecting full-time, … More…

Destroyed Buddha Lives Again on the High Line
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Destroyed Buddha Lives Again on the High Line

As part of the public art project on Manhattan’s High Line, Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s The Light That Shines Through the Universe pays homage to destruction and memory by evoking the imagery of Buddha sculptures destroyed by the Taliban. One of … More…

Venice Biennale Takes Flak Over Russian Inclusion
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Venice Biennale Takes Flak Over Russian Inclusion

Criticism of the Venice Biennale has increased in recent weeks for its refusal to ban Russia from participating. And now, the government of Finland plans to minimize its presence at the event in response. Organizations such as the Art Not … More…

Sotheby’s London Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings
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Sotheby’s London Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings

On Wednesday, April 15th, Sotheby’s London hosted their Old Master & Nineteenth-Century Paintings sale. Though hosted entirely online, the auction garnered substantial attention, which has unfortunately become a bit of a rarity in the markets for these works. Of course, … More…

€1M Picasso Given Away in Charity Raffle
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€1M Picasso Given Away in Charity Raffle

On Tuesday, April 14th, a French man learned he had won a €1 million Picasso painting in a raffle. The 1 Picasso 100 Euros raffle is an event put on by the Picasso Estate in collaboration with a prominent charity. … More…

Restellini’s Modigliani Catalogue Complete
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Restellini’s Modigliani Catalogue Complete

After close to thirty years of work, art historian Marc Restellini’s monumental catalogue raisonné on Amadeo Modigliani is now set for publication. Restellini is considered one of the art world’s most renowned specialists on Modigliani’s life and work. Since the … More…

Greece Proposes New Art Forgery Laws
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Greece Proposes New Art Forgery Laws

The government of Greece may enact new laws concerning art forgery. While most countries, particularly in Europe, address art forgery through general anti-forgery laws, Greece may become one of the few countries to dedicate legislation and state infrastructure specifically to … More…

Mexican Art World Opposes Kahlo & Rivera Works Leaving For Spain
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Mexican Art World Opposes Kahlo & Rivera Works Leaving For Spain

Mexico’s cultural sector is protesting against an agreement that would move an important Mexican art collection, featuring several works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, to a cultural center in Spain. Some say the move is temporary, but many are … More…

Reina Sofia Refuses to Loan Picasso’s Guernica
The anti-war painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso, showing a number of human and animal figures, both dead and alive, painted in black, white, and gray.

Reina Sofia Refuses to Loan Picasso’s Guernica

Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica is at the center of a cultural fight in Spain after the Reina Sofía Museum refused to loan it to the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. The regional government of the Basque Country has submitted a petition to … More…

Raphael’s Sublime Poetry at the Met
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Raphael’s Sublime Poetry at the Met

On Sunday, March 29th, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the first-ever retrospective of the Renaissance master Raphael by an American museum. The exhibition, titled Sublime Poetry, was a monumental undertaking that required collaboration with dozens of cultural institutions … More…