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Bonhams London 19th Century Sale
A group of men and women in ancient dress with their backs turned to the viewer. They look down the road beyond the city walls to a hilltop, where many people are gathered. They watch Roman soldiers escort convicts, including Jesus Christ, to their crucifixion site.

Bonhams London 19th Century Sale

On Wednesday, March 29th, Bonhams New Bond Street location in London hosted its 19th Century and British Impressionist art sale, featuring seventy-three works by both British and Continental European painters (w/p = with buyer’s premium). What ended up being the … More…

Unknown Pollock Rediscovered In Bulgaria
Studio portrait at about age 16 circa 1928

Unknown Pollock Rediscovered In Bulgaria

Greece’s anti-organized crime task force found a lost painting possibly by the great American abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock during a raid on suspected art traffickers in Bulgaria. Last week, Bulgarian National Radio reported that Europol organized a joint operation … More…

Lego Lilies: Ai Weiwei’s Newest Work In London
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei in a blue shirt against a beige background

Lego Lilies: Ai Weiwei’s Newest Work In London

The Design Museum, located less than ten minutes from Kensington Palace in London, has been an exhibition space for graphic arts, architecture, fashion, and much more since the late 1980s. But it’s receiving attention right now because of a new … More…

20 West 55th Street: Hopefully, Our Last Buildout Update!
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20 West 55th Street: Hopefully, Our Last Buildout Update!

It was a stressful week for our new space. On Wednesday, we discovered that 55th Street was closed due to a high-ranking foreign official staying at the Peninsula Hotel – concrete barriers were up, while Police Officers, Secret Service, and … More…

Family Feud Over Rockwell Drawings
An illustration showing a group of people waiting on red couches and chairs, including multiple men in suits, a British officer in a kilt, and a red-headed woman in a yellow dress and a sash reading "Miss America". The illustration is Norman Rockwell's depiction of people waiting for an meeting with president Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Family Feud Over Rockwell Drawings

A family is currently dividing itself into factions because of the disputed ownership of some drawings. But they’re not just any drawings… So You Want To See the President! is a series of illustrations created by the American artist Norman Rockwell … More…

Coin Dealer Arrested
Julius Caeser gold coin known as the Eid Mar

Coin Dealer Arrested

I rarely choose to update one of my stories, but one I wrote about a few years ago now belongs in our Dark Side section. In December 2020, I wrote about a rare ancient gold coin, the Eid Mar, that … More…

Roadshow Rarity: Early Hockney Work Featured On BBC Program
a landscape by David Hockney

Roadshow Rarity: Early Hockney Work Featured On BBC Program

Antiques Roadshow, both the American and original British versions, is a lovely program that allows people to rummage through their attics and storage units to see if some family heirlooms have any real monetary value. In one episode of the … More…

Sotheby’s London (Women) Artists
A painting showing two black, rocky outcroppings flanking the sides rising up, pulling all attention towards a small, brown bird with its wings extended against a red and blue sky, probably either at dawn or dusk.

Sotheby’s London (Women) Artists

On Thursday March 16th, Sotheby’s London hosted a short but very interesting sale dedicated completely to female artists creatively called “(Women) Artists”. The fifty-four available lots came from many different artists and creators across many styles and periods, including works … More…

Reynolds At Risk: Trying To Save A National Treasure
A portrait of a tan-skinned man in billowing white robes and a turban.

Reynolds At Risk: Trying To Save A National Treasure

Sir Joshua Reynolds is one of the most famous British portraitists of the eighteenth century. He captured the likenesses of military officers, barons, earls, dukes, and many more on his canvases, which earned him a position as president of the … More…

Family Reunion: Two Dutch Portraits Brought Back Together After 200 Years
A double portrait of a father and son, both dressed in black wearing ruffs. The young son gently holds the father's hand as the two look directly at the viewer. The background consists of a colonnade, an overcast sky, and a line of poplar trees.

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
A chaotic scene of a village lawyer's office. The well-dressed lawyer is inspecting some paperwork, while village farmers line up to pay their taxes, bringing both money and agricultural goods.

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
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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
A painting in an indigenous Canadian style of several blue and red creatures on a yellow background.

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
An image of da Vinci's painting Salvator Mundi

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…

Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Sale
An abstract work of a town surrounded by green hills. In the foreground, the white spire of a church rises up into a blue and red sky.

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…

Christie’s London Art Of The Surreal
A gouache work on paper showing the outline of a flying bird filled in with bright, cloudy sky. This is set against a darker, starry sky over an ocean.

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…