![Mantle 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/Mantle-square-f40acf82ff9faef404f6b6afcca29965-.jpg)
Mickey Mantle Card Hits All-Time Record, But…
Heritage’s recent Summer Platinum Night Sports auction was all over the news for just one lot. The Mickey Mantle 1952 Topps baseball card set an amazing new record for sports memorabilia, but what about the rest of the sale? Did … More…
![Royal_Cypher_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II_(in_Scotland).svg The royal cypher of Queen Elizabeth II](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/Royal_Cypher_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II_in_Scotland.svg_-square-e140ee54fc051fbedfa829060799aac2-.png)
New York City Streets Mourn The Queen
Until last week, most of us had not known a world without Queen Elizabeth II. Across the globe, people paid tribute to Britain’s longest-reigning monarch in all sorts of ways: flags throughout the world were lowered to half-mast, world leaders … More…
![corot Corot - stolen in 1972 from the Montreal museum](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/corot-862x1024-square-e85e0170313334411d66c91ef2b4bef6-.jpg)
Stolen Some 50 Years Ago, And Still Missing
In 1972, three men broke into the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and drove out with 39 small objects and 18 paintings. According to reports, it took the armed thieves about an hour and a half to enter the museum … More…
![Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, kept at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/Johannes_Vermeer_-_Het_melkmeisje_-_Google_Art_Project-914x1024-square-202e67a2dcb43984440a9a6fac17813d-.jpg)
Vermeer’s Milkmaid Unveils New Secrets
Starting on February 10, 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will open an exhibit featuring 27 of the 35 known paintings by the Dutch Golden Age master Johannes Vermeer. It will be the largest Vermeer exhibition to date, reuniting many of … More…
![Blue_velvet_dress_of_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales Princess Diana dancing at the White House](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/Blue_velvet_dress_of_Diana_Princess_of_Wales-square-666bbf3e8578b6011db87d0339477ba3-.jpg)
Princess Diana’s Ford Escort Sells At Auction
Even in the best condition, a Ford Escort from the mid-1980s wouldn’t be particularly valuable unless someone rather important owned it. And if royalty isn’t important, I don’t know what is. At the end of August, Silverstone Auto Auctions in … More…
![640px-Xi_Jinping_Sept._19,_2012 Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/640px-Xi_Jinping_Sept._19_2012-square-fae1044bdaaba4b98b0e07939f097f9d-.jpg)
China’s War On Dissident Art
It all sounds like something out of a spy thriller: A work by an artist exiled from his home country suddenly goes up in flames. Many brushed it off as just an accident, but the artist thinks there’s something more … More…
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The New View – At Least For Now
The end of August has arrived, and with that, the end of our lease on 57th Street. In the late 1970s, the gallery moved from a space on Park Avenue South to one on East 63rd Street. We enjoyed our … More…
![Paul_Cézanne_-_Montagne_Saint-victoire_-_Google_Art_Project La montagne Saint-Victoire by Paul Cézanne, completed in 1890, currently in the collection of Paul Allen, to be sold at Christie's in November 2022](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/Paul_Cézanne_-_Montagne_Saint-victoire_-_Google_Art_Project-1024x676-square-602ce61aeec3642cc7656a7b9f222de6-.jpg)
The Best Is Yet To Come: The Paul Allen Collection
Christie’s announced recently that it had won the consignment for the art collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who passed away in 2018. His collection is considered one of the most prominent in the world, with works from the Renaissance … More…
![Lepisma_saccharina_205219133 A common silverfish](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/Lepisma_saccharina_205219133-square-3f1408c6ffaa71dffe9494a9fd6e87c8-.jpg)
Western Art On Display In Iran
Having something incredible but not being able to show it off for whatever reason can be an agonizing feeling. It’s like having a secret that you desperately want to blurt out. So one can only imagine the experience of those … More…
![640px-Hadrian's_wall_at_Greenhead_Lough Hadrian's Wall](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/640px-Hadrians_wall_at_Greenhead_Lough-square-2394bd718849da19d1bc2f80b32cbb7e-.jpg)
Modern Art At Hadrian’s Wall
While London may be the place to go for foreign tourists in Britain, people are being drawn to the northern English countryside to see a recent addition to one of the country’s oldest structures. Hadrian’s Wall is an ancient Roman … More…
![main-image A portrait of the Austrian actress Tilla Durieux by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, sold under duress and now hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/main-image-827x1024-square-0c9d9798e1211faa48de276e64b8bfcc-.jpg)
Label Your Loot: The New Law For New York Museums
Since the end of the Second World War, cultural institutions worldwide have tried to deal with how to approach art stolen or appropriated by the Nazis. Some museums have been very open about acknowledging the problematic provenance of some of … More…
![d5946114x Nu couché by Amedeo Modigliani, sold at Christie's New York in 2015](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/d5946114x-square-d4d58d625016734add28252adbe85046-.jpg)
Modigliani Coming To The Big Screen
Johnny Depp was all anyone could talk about a few months ago. The defamation trial involving him and his ex-wife Amber Heard was consistently one of the top stories between mid-April and early June of this year. And we all … More…
![lieca_camera vintage camera from Leica Company](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/lieca_camera-square-a3ef0949a5c9c47318f5e894f2aa24df-.jpg)
Vintage Leica Camera Smashes Record
A vintage Leica camera smashed the auction record when it sold at the 40th Leitz Photographica auction. The Leitz Photographica auction takes place twice a year and is the world’s largest auction for vintage cameras and optical and photography lenses. … More…
![article00_large Sol Poente by the modernist Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral, confiscated from an alleged psychic involved in the conspiracy to defraud the collector Genevieve Boghici](https://rehs.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/article00_large-square-89b66a891625c970935fb85a8d689d36-.jpg)
Stealing Paintings Using… Psychics?
I’m incredibly skeptical and often outright dismissive of the paranormal, especially when people use it to try to provide a service. This means ghost-hunters, psychics, mediums, astrologers, palm-readers, all that stuff. If you want to try to make sense of … More…
Bonhams New York Ernie Barnes Sale
On Friday, September 9th, Bonhams New York held a very special sale, particularly because it was a rather brief affair. There was only a single lot in the catalogue: Solid Rock Congregation by Ernie Barnes. Why Bonhams didn’t just put … More…