Pre-sale guarantees set to create new highs
Guess there is a simple way to make sure your sales hit their numbers … get 3rd party guarantees on the major lots. The upcoming London sales seem to be set to bring home the bacon … should be interesting … More…
Public to get first view of controversial Gurlitt art collection
After a long legal battle as to the ownership, the Gurlitt collection will go on view in Bern and Bonn between November 2017 and March 2018. The true provenance of many works in the collection, which includes paintings by Matisse, … More…
100 years of De Stijl, the most important art movement you’ve never heard of
Well, I cannot agree that it is a movement I never hear of … seem to remember it being a big part of my art history education. However, if you weren’t lucky enough to take a series of art history classes, … More…
AVAILABLE: Rubens Santoro’s “Scuola Grande di San Marco and the Ponte Cavallo…”
Source: Scuola Grande di San Marco and the Ponte Cavallo on the Rio dei Mendicanti, Venice – this recent addition to our available online inventory is one of the finest and largest works by Rubens Santoro (1859-1942) to have appeared on … More…
How American Gothic became an icon
Is Grant Wood’s famous painting serious or comic? It is this ambiguity that has helped made it one of the most parodied images in art history, writes Fisun Güner. American after the Fall: Painting in the 1930’s opens at the … More…
Art Market’s Slump Gets Worse in 2016
Kelly Crow begins her article with: The art market sank into a deeper slump last year, with London-based auction house Christie’s International PLC saying Wednesday it sold £4 billion, or $5.4 billion, of art last year, a 27% decline.. And this is … More…
SOLD: Guy Wiggins’s “Fifth Avenue at the Library”
Source: Fifth Avenue at the Library – this amazing Guy C. Wiggins (1883-1962) of a snowy New York Public Library, recently made its way to a new home … a perfect image for today! According to Wikipedia: on May 23, 1911, the … More…