Family Reunion: Two Dutch Portraits Brought Back Together After 200 Years
People can do a lot through the power of the Internet. In December, I wrote about how a Massachusetts art collector tracked down a stolen masterwork by the Dutch Golden Age painter Hendrick Avercamp because of an image of the … More…
Brueghel Behind The Door: A New Discovery In France
At the end of this month, a rare work by the seventeenth-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Younger will be going to auction in Paris. What has many people talking about it, though, is where it came from. For more … More…
20 West 55th – Even Closer
On Thursday, March 9th, we visited the new gallery space at 20 West 55th Street and were very impressed with the progress. All floorings are in, and not only have the doors arrived, but several have been installed; among them … More…
Fraud And Forgery In The Great White North
In what some call the dismantling of the world’s biggest art fraud conspiracy, police in Ontario arrested eight people last Wednesday in connection to an art forgery scheme responsible for creating thousands of fake works and passing them off as … More…
The Bouvier Affair: Still Chugging Along
Last August, it seemed that the infamous Bouvier affair that has rocked the art world since 2015 was coming to a close after Russian oligarch and art collector Dimitri Rybolovlev successfully had a criminal investigation opened in Geneva against Swiss art dealer … More…
Christie’s London Art Of The Surreal
On Tuesday, February 28, Christie’s London hosted a small sale called the Art of the Surreal. It came on the heels of the much longer twentieth- and twenty-first-century sale earlier that day. Most of the thirty-two available lots are by … More…
Banksy On A Stamp
In November, locals in and around Kyiv discovered several murals by the British street artist Banksy. About a month later, eight people were detained trying to remove a wall segment containing a mural, leading Kyiv’s Regional Military Administration to install protective polycarbonate … More…
A Gown, A Penny, And An iPhone
It has been a busy month for me with the new addition to our family and the Palm Beach show. As a result, I’ve had a tough time finding time for my contribution to the weekly blog posts. Nonetheless, I … More…
Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Sale
On Wednesday March 1st, Sotheby’s London hosted a modern and contemporary evening sale featuring thirty-six works from Picasso, Pissarro, and Vlaminck to Warhol, Haring, and Hirst. It was a relatively short affair, barely lasting more than an hour (w/p = … More…