![AgaQAeWBgoC3MezYJ8jfFfzlKGfOdAQ2nLBiWYej A still life painting of a tabletop with some baguettes, eggs, onions, a metal pitcher, a glass, and a knife](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/AgaQAeWBgoC3MezYJ8jfFfzlKGfOdAQ2nLBiWYej-square-50072c121927c3e044898e17e3fccd79-.jpg)
A Hidden Look At Cézanne In Cincinnati
Great paintings hiding in plain sight are nothing new in museums. Artists have used old canvases to create new paintings for centuries, whether to cut costs and save canvas or to hide unsatisfactory work. Many masters like Van Gogh, Picasso, … More…
![41866afd-6396-45e7-bd26-944263cf92f7 A group of young girls in wide seventeenth-century dresses and skirts. Off to the left, the artist has painted himself peering out from behind a canvas and an easel with a paintbrush and a palette. On the far wall, a mirror shows that you are seeing this from the view of the King and Queen of Spain sitting for their portrait while your daughter and her handmaidens look on.](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/41866afd-6396-45e7-bd26-944263cf92f7-897x1024-square-6c95e9d304f8ec78368344d04f1008af-.jpg)
Animosity Over Madrid’s Meninas
Since 2018, Madrid has hosted an extensive public art display during the last few months of the year. Right now, the streets of the Spanish capital are a public gallery with dozens of sculptures appearing on the sidewalks and in … More…
![1000002877 construction image of our gallery space at 20 West 55th street](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/1000002877-768x1024-square-602955ea161693595d4079a80cf1b18c-.jpg)
20 West 55th Street Is Getting Closer
We visited the space at 20 West 55th Street this week to check the progress and meet with the contractor. Once we arrived, they informed us that the lighting system needed some changes – more complex dimming controllers and track … More…
![tony_south_ts1059_destination_moon_art_palm_beach A gorilla on a space traveller ride, by Tony South](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/tony_south_ts1059_destination_moon_art_palm_beach-1024x935-square-0e96dcd5e1a1627d6854ae789b1572cf-.jpg)
Palm Beach 2023 – Times 2!
As many of you know, we have been exhibiting at The Palm Beach Show for almost 20 years. During the summer of 2022, one of the owners contacted me with some interesting news; they had just acquired the Art Palm … More…
![sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-2 A mythological scene of the young hunter Adonis pulling himself away from his lover, the goddess Venus. Adonis holds a spear in one hand and the leash in the other, reining in his three hounds. In the background, among the hills and trees, Venus's son Cupid lies asleep under a tree with his bow and arrow hanging from a branch, while Apollo is seen shining among the clouds, representing the dawn.](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-2-square-51ac85ff179cbf4108f7a128845ccc82-.jpg)
London Old Masters Week: Sotheby’s Evening Sale
Last week was an exciting time for the Old Masters market, since both Christie’s and Sotheby’s hosted their end-of-the-year sales at their London locations. However, the December 7th Sotheby’s evening sale arguably received a little more attention. While works by … More…
![Mark Daly's Radio City Music Hall, First Snow Mark Daly's Radio City Music Hall, First Snow](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/mark_daly_md1076_radio_city_music_hall_first_snow-760x1024-square-4df224c940ba4ac29ce111214f0c9f9c-.jpg)
Architecture in Art: Mark Daly’s Radio City Music Hall, First Snow
With the holidays just around the corner, I figured this week we’d talk about one of the more festive places in the city – Radio City Music Hall, which is featured in Mark Daly’s Radio City Music Hall, First Snow. … More…
![image-1 A painting of a white doorway in a stone house flanked by a pair of thin trees with green and gold leaves](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/image-1-823x1024-square-347d1864a29b28260fecb183f3e22130-.jpg)
Bonhams NY Impressionist & Modern Sale
On Tuesday, December 6th, Bonhams New York hosted an Impressionist and Modern Art sale featuring several highly-valued works expected to ensure a successful auction. Unfortunately, those expectations couldn’t have been more wrong. It was an absolutely dismal affair and probably … More…
![jacek-malczewski_rzeczywistosc_466777_0 Rzeczywistość (or Reality in English) by the Polish symbolist Jacek Malczewski, set to be auctioned off at DESA Unicum in Warsaw but suspected of having been stolen during the 1940s](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/jacek-malczewski_rzeczywistosc_466777_0-1024x559-square-4dd5103c0290402c49f931be2b985d63-.jpg)
Auction House Standoff In Poland
The 1908 painting Rzeczywistość (or Reality in English) by the Polish symbolist Jacek Malczewski has not been exhibited for nearly a century. But now, DESA Unicum in Warsaw will auction it off on December 8th, with specialists predicting it to sell for anywhere … More…
![23ukraine-art3-superJumbo Landscape, Locomotive by the Ukrainian painter Oleksandr Bohomazov, now on display at the Thyssen-Borenmisza Museum in Madrid](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/23ukraine-art3-superJumbo-1024x819-square-723ff584126025e1c548f7c5e9302948-.webp)
Cultural Defiance: Ukrainian Art On Display in Spain
On Tuesday, November 15th, Russia unleashed its most brutal shelling of Kyiv to date, with over a hundred missiles raining down on the Ukrainian capital and knocking out power to much of the region. However, two trucks departed the city only … More…
![holly winter dance party poster from 1959 starring buddy holly, the big bopper and richie valens](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/holly-square-e4289ea4a450b109c5a81d425d042059-.jpg)
The Day The Music Died
‘The Day the Music Died’ are lyrics from Don Mclean’s 1971 song American Pie, his greatest hit. But this isn’t about a song; it’s about a piece of memorabilia found after the tragedy that occurred on February 3, 1959, referenced … More…
![FiahXLQX0AEhKql A portrait of Moses sold in Paris on November 25th at Chayette & Cheval for €590,000. Possibly by the Italian Baroque master Guercino](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/FiahXLQX0AEhKql-square-7bc94f1a81751637b9769c369bae6b58-.jpg)
A New Old Master
It’s not every day that you find a forgotten painting by one of the Old Masters. But that is definitely the case for the Italian baroque painter Guercino. It seems like someone suddenly rediscovers one of his portraits or religious … More…
![steve-jobs-sandals pair of brown birkenstock sandals](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/steve-jobs-sandals-square-79ad5db1a7e4c5a22082bc731a00e19f-.jpg)
Walking In Steve Jobs’ Shoes
Would you want to walk in Steve Jobs’ shoes? Well, someone may be doing just that! A pair of Jobs’ Birkenstocks from the 1970s recently sold at auction and set an auction record for the highest price paid for a … More…
![lucas_cranach_detail head of a woman - detail of the Lucas Cranach painting](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/lucas_cranach_detail-square-4407d77e214304fba1dbc4dc72c1dcd2-.jpg)
The Ruffini Affair At An End?
European authorities have long suspected the Italian art dealer Giuliano Ruffini of being at the center of one of the largest Old Masters forging networks in Europe. He and his colleagues allegedly created fake paintings and passed them off as … More…
![Vincent_van_Gogh_sunflowers vase of sunflowers by Van Gogh](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/Vincent_van_Gogh_sunflowers-square-b5e616cdcea9b948de919b548fef996f-.jpg)
Art Or The Environment: Do We Have To Choose?
Climate protests involving attacks on major artworks are becoming increasingly common nowadays. Environmental activists staging public demonstrations is nothing new, but targeting major works of art is something that really only caught people’s attention starting October 14th of this year. … More…
London Old Masters Week: Christie’s Evening Sale
On December 8th, Christie’s London featured twenty-seven lots as part of its Old Masters evening sale. This came the day after Sotheby’s held its own rather successful Old Masters sale. While both auctions did relatively well overall, some writers couldn’t … More…