Authorities in France seize Picasso painting banned from leaving Spain
Pablo Picasso’s “Head of a Yong Woman” worth $27.4 million was seized from a boat docked at Corsica over the weekend by French authorities just before it was to be illegally exported to Switzerland. The work, owned by well-known Spanish … More…
German Crew paint Mexican town colourful
A group of street artists, known as the German Crew, take the colorless town of Palmitas and turn it into a colorful work of art. This was a government sponsored creation, which took almost 3 months to complete, included 209 … More…
‘Every Kind of a Painter’ Features a Retrospective of Thomas Prichard Rossiter
Currently on view at the Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, N.Y. is an exhibition featuring 24 works by Connecticut artist Thomas P. Rossiter (1818-1871). Featured are paintings of family and friends as well as portraits of Revolutionary War heroes and … More…
Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Montague Dawson’s “The President and the Little Belt”
Source: The President and the Little Belt – here is one of the great works by Montague Dawson (1895-1973) that passed through our hands in 2011. The sea battle depicted records one of the many incidents leading up to the War … More…
Basquiat and the Collecting of History
Here is a great article on one of the most celebrated artist of the 20th century – Jean-Michel Basquiat. Writer Bob Nickas gives a detailed history of this artist’s rise to fame and tries to answer the question: why is one … More…
Comments on the Art Market – Volume 176
Source: Newsletter Archives – we are pleased to announce that Volume 176 of our Comments on the Art Market was just released. In this issue we cover the upcoming Baltimore Show, Reflecting the Real (a gallery show which will open in … More…