A Last-Ditch Effort To Save The Collection
Opponents of the Berkshire Museum’s decision to sell 40 works are making a last-ditch effort to stop the sale. A few weeks ago, the museum, along with the AGO (Maura Healey), presented a proposal to the courts that would allow … More…
Green + Greed = The Dark Side
Early this month, news broke of a multi-count indictment over a $50 million international securities fraud and money laundering scheme. Based on a release from the New York Department of Justice, six individuals and four brokerage/management corporations are involved … … More…
Are Bonfoey Gallery & Neil Morris in Hot Water?
In January, Richard and Becky Hearty, from Cross Plains, Tennessee, filed a lawsuit against the Bonfoey Gallery, of Cleveland, for coercing Richard’s mother into consigning an important painting by George Inness to them. According to the complaint, Richard is the … More…
Dali, Dali & Magritte: Sotheby’s Art of the Surreal (London)
Sotheby’s also presented a sale devoted to Surrealist art and it was a compact, carefully curated, one. Taking first and second place was the master of Surrealism … Salvador Dalí. His Maison pour erotomane (a tiny work measuring just 5 … More…
Picasso, Picasso & Derain: Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern (London)
As with Christie’s, Sotheby’s pinned their hopes on Picasso, and the gamble paid off when his Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée sold for £49.8M ($69.4M – est. on request – they were figuring $50M) and Le Matador … More…
Magritte, Miro and More Picasso: Christie’s – Art of the Surreal (London)
On the evening of February 28, Christie’s also presented their Art of the Surreal. Taking top honors here was …. drum roll please … Picasso! His painting titled Figure (a 26 x 19 inch work created on February 2, 1930 … … More…
Picasso, Degas & Monet: Christie’s – Impressionist & Modern (London)
Tonight, the auction action began in London at Christie’s and unlike some previous sales, there were no blockbuster ($50, $80 or $100 million) works. The first 9 lots all did very well … selling either within or well above their … More…
Talk About Luck!
In 2009, the Cantini museum in Marseille presented an exhibition of 20 works by Edgar Degas. On December 31st of that year, one of the works, Les Choristes, went missing. Since there were no signs of a break-in authorities assumed … More…
Comments on the Art Market – Volume 207
We just released Volume 207 of our Comments on the Art Market. This month we cover the Charleston Show, an upcoming gallery exhibition titled Imagine (works from the Ani Art Academies and some special guests), Stocks, Tales from the Dark … More…