Topekan pays $2 for painting worth thousands
Another remarkable story about a lucky thrift store find. Heather Brown purchased a painting for $2 at a Kansas City thrift store several months ago. After researching the artist, she connected with an art appraiser who told her he believed the … More…
Painting of the Day (just hit the SOLD archives): Aston Knight’s “Summer Morning”
Source: Summer Morning – This classic work by Louis Aston Knight (1873-1948) was featured in the exhibition Une même longueur d’onde, Louis Aston Knight / Alain Fleischer that took place at the Musée d’Art, Historie at Archéologie – Évreux, France, in 2013. We … More…
Warhol’s One Dollar Bill fetches £20.9m on record night
We will give a more complete review of the London sales in our next newsletter, but for now here is a quick update on the Sotheby’s evening sale. According to all reports, it was a record night with a sale’s … More…
Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Edouard Cortes’s “A Little River in Normandie”
Source: A Little River in Normandie – in celebration of the upcoming Edouard Cortès and Normandy exhibition that will open on July 4th at the Musée Charles Léandre and run through October 25, 2015; here is one of his Normandy views from … More…
Lucky breaks: art made from broken phones
London printmaker Sam Hodge’s latest series is inspired by a growing phobia around the world… breaking your cell phone screen (Nomophobia has become one of the biggest phobias in the world – being without your cellphone). By using a transparent … More…
Comments on the Art Market – Volume 175 is OUT!
Source: Newsletter Archives – Volume 175 of our Comments on the Art Market was just released. We cover the upcoming Edouard Cortes show in France, Stocks, Tales from the Dark Side, Really! and the Art Market (London sales).