Roadshow Rarity: Early Hockney Work Featured On BBC Program
Antiques Roadshow, both the American and original British versions, is a lovely program that allows people to rummage through their attics and storage units to see if some family heirlooms have any real monetary value. In one episode of the … More…
Reynolds At Risk: Trying To Save A National Treasure
Sir Joshua Reynolds is one of the most famous British portraitists of the eighteenth century. He captured the likenesses of military officers, barons, earls, dukes, and many more on his canvases, which earned him a position as president of the … More…
Family Reunion: Two Dutch Portraits Brought Back Together After 200 Years
People can do a lot through the power of the Internet. In December, I wrote about how a Massachusetts art collector tracked down a stolen masterwork by the Dutch Golden Age painter Hendrick Avercamp because of an image of the … More…
Brueghel Behind The Door: A New Discovery In France
At the end of this month, a rare work by the seventeenth-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Younger will be going to auction in Paris. What has many people talking about it, though, is where it came from. For more … More…
20 West 55th – Even Closer
On Thursday, March 9th, we visited the new gallery space at 20 West 55th Street and were very impressed with the progress. All floorings are in, and not only have the doors arrived, but several have been installed; among them … More…
Fraud And Forgery In The Great White North
In what some call the dismantling of the world’s biggest art fraud conspiracy, police in Ontario arrested eight people last Wednesday in connection to an art forgery scheme responsible for creating thousands of fake works and passing them off as … More…
The Bouvier Affair: Still Chugging Along
Last August, it seemed that the infamous Bouvier affair that has rocked the art world since 2015 was coming to a close after Russian oligarch and art collector Dimitri Rybolovlev successfully had a criminal investigation opened in Geneva against Swiss art dealer … More…
Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Sale
On Wednesday March 1st, Sotheby’s London hosted a modern and contemporary evening sale featuring thirty-six works from Picasso, Pissarro, and Vlaminck to Warhol, Haring, and Hirst. It was a relatively short affair, barely lasting more than an hour (w/p = … More…
Sotheby’s London (Women) Artists
On Thursday March 16th, Sotheby’s London hosted a short but very interesting sale dedicated completely to female artists creatively called “(Women) Artists”. The fifty-four available lots came from many different artists and creators across many styles and periods, including works … More…