Auction of Soviet art triggers probe; art market on guard
Seems like a ‘fight’ is brewing over a collection of over 46,000 Soviet-era works of art that was once worth pennies and is now worth millions. According to recent articles: The sale of nine Soviet-era masterpieces that fetched $3 million at … More…
Exhibition Catalog: Skin and Tonic
We are pleased to present a digital version of our Skin and Tonic exhibition catalog. Featured are Janet Whitmore’s essay New Expressions of Historic Forms along with images of 16 paintings by David Palumbo and 14 paintings by Todd Casey. The … More…
Lawsuit against art historian over fake Rothko settled out of court
Seem there were so many people involved in the Knoedler scandal. A recent story by Laura Gilbert, in The Art Newspaper, shines a light on one of them. Seems Frank Fertitta sued Swiss art historian Oliver Wick over the fake … More…
Queer British Art at Tate Britain
A number of galleries and museums in United Kingdom are staging exhibitions to highlight the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 (a Parliamentary Act which decriminalize homosexual acts in private between two men who were at least 21 years … More…
Available: Johann Berthelsen’s “5th Avenue Looking South from 59th St.”
Source: 5th Avenue Looking South from 59th Street – here is a classic New York street scene by Johann Berthelsen (1883 – 1972) that we just added to our available online inventory. Berthelsen was Danish by birth and came to the … More…
Don’t Blame the Russians, Tax Judge Tells Sotheby’s Expert
As a current member of the IRS’s Art Advisory Panel I found Colin Moynihan’s article in The New York Times very interesting. In this instance, it appears that Sotheby’s had a vested interest, or should we say a conflict of … More…
Sold Archives: Julien Dupre’s “La rentree au village”
Source: La rentree au village – here is an important painting by the 19th century French Realist artist Julien Dupré (1851-1910) that we sold back in 2003. Dupré began exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1876 and continued to show there until … More…
SOLD ARCHIVES: Henry Victor Lesur’s “The Flower Seller”
Source: The Flower Seller – Here is one from our sold archives. Henri Victor Lesur was born in Roubaix on April 28, 1863. His early life, before he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, remains a mystery. At the École he studied under … More…
Comments on the Art Market – Volume 197
Source: Newsletter Archives – we just released volume 197 of our monthly newsletter Comments on the Art Market. In this issue we cover Skin & Tonic (the show opens this week and there is a link to an online version of the … More…