Rubens masterpiece fetches £44 million
When impressive works his the market, impressive prices are achieved. Peter Paul Rubens’s Lot and his Daughters was offered yesterday in London and after a 14 minute bidding war, the work sold for £44,882,500 ($58.2M). by the end of the sale, … More…
William Dobson’s haunting self-portrait must be saved for the nation
Jonathan Jones hopes William Dobson’s Portrait of the Artist (c.1637), which was up for sale yesterday, will be saved for the nation. The painting carried a £200-300K estimate and sold for £1,106,500 ($1.44M) with the buyer’s premium — a record auction price … More…
How 2 Rembrandts in a Paris Bedroom Ended Up at the Rijksmuseum
A pair of portraits by Rembrandt have found their way into public collections. It appears that in order to settle a tax bill, Robert de Rothschild needed to sell a Rembrandt portrait he inherited from his father, Alain de Rothschild. It was one … More…
The $3 Billion Family Art Feud
Nice article by Kelly Crow, in The Wall Street Journal, about the battle over the Goulandris art collection. According to Kelly, Greek shipping mogul Basil Goulandris and his wife, Elise, aren’t household names, but the 16-year family feud over their … More…