Recovering Art Market Attracts Trophy Works — Really? Does Not Sound Like It!
Can you really determine the health of the art market when the main salerooms have pre-sold over $500M worth of art already? Why are those trophy works on the market? Might it be that the auction rooms have guaranteed they will sell … More…
LA Gallery Says It Was Sold Forged Warhols
Los Angeles’s Revolver Gallery has sued Brian and Ana Walshe for selling them 2 forged Andy Warhol silkscreens for $80,000. Ron Rivlin, of Revolver Gallery, bought the works on eBay and when they were delivered, all of the supporting documentation turned … More…
AVAILABLE: Dietz Edzard’s “La Famille dans la Loge”
Source: La Famille dans la Loge – this is one of the largest and most important paintings by Dietz Edzard to have appeared on the market; it comes from a private collection and is in perfect condition. Dr. Gerd Muehsam states, in … More…
Crossing Boudaries with Julie Bell
For all our fans of Julie Bell‘s work, here is a recent interview she did with Walt Morton that was published by Poets and Artists. It gives Julie’s perspective on her art and there are many amazing images … including Peacock … More…
SOLD: Antoine Blanchard’s “Flower Market, Paris”
Source: Flower Market, Paris – we are pleased to announce that this early 60s work by the French Paris street scene artist Antoine Blanchard (1910-1988) recently made its way to a new home. The flower markets of Paris were abundant, the … More…
Becoming An Artist Is As Easy As A Pineapple
I do love these stories. This time it was a couple of students at Gordon University in Scotland managed to pass off a pineapple as a work of art after leaving it in the middle of an exhibition. Ruairi Gray, a … More…
Auction of Soviet art triggers probe; art market on guard
Seems like a ‘fight’ is brewing over a collection of over 46,000 Soviet-era works of art that was once worth pennies and is now worth millions. According to recent articles: The sale of nine Soviet-era masterpieces that fetched $3 million at … More…
Exhibition Catalog: Skin and Tonic
We are pleased to present a digital version of our Skin and Tonic exhibition catalog. Featured are Janet Whitmore’s essay New Expressions of Historic Forms along with images of 16 paintings by David Palumbo and 14 paintings by Todd Casey. The … More…
Lawsuit against art historian over fake Rothko settled out of court
Seem there were so many people involved in the Knoedler scandal. A recent story by Laura Gilbert, in The Art Newspaper, shines a light on one of them. Seems Frank Fertitta sued Swiss art historian Oliver Wick over the fake … More…
Queer British Art at Tate Britain
A number of galleries and museums in United Kingdom are staging exhibitions to highlight the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 (a Parliamentary Act which decriminalize homosexual acts in private between two men who were at least 21 years … More…
Available: Johann Berthelsen’s “5th Avenue Looking South from 59th St.”
Source: 5th Avenue Looking South from 59th Street – here is a classic New York street scene by Johann Berthelsen (1883 – 1972) that we just added to our available online inventory. Berthelsen was Danish by birth and came to the … More…
Don’t Blame the Russians, Tax Judge Tells Sotheby’s Expert
As a current member of the IRS’s Art Advisory Panel I found Colin Moynihan’s article in The New York Times very interesting. In this instance, it appears that Sotheby’s had a vested interest, or should we say a conflict of … More…
Sold Archives: Julien Dupre’s “La rentree au village”
Source: La rentree au village – here is an important painting by the 19th century French Realist artist Julien Dupré (1851-1910) that we sold back in 2003. Dupré began exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1876 and continued to show there until … More…
SOLD ARCHIVES: Henry Victor Lesur’s “The Flower Seller”
Source: The Flower Seller – Here is one from our sold archives. Henri Victor Lesur was born in Roubaix on April 28, 1863. His early life, before he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, remains a mystery. At the École he studied under … More…
Caravaggio’s Last Two Paintings Reunited at The Met
Caravaggio … even though he appears to have been a very temperamental man which resulted in a very “eventful” life, his art has amazed and inspired people for centuries. Now you have a chance to see the artist’s last two … More…
Comments on the Art Market – Volume 197
Source: Newsletter Archives – we just released volume 197 of our monthly newsletter Comments on the Art Market. In this issue we cover Skin & Tonic (the show opens this week and there is a link to an online version of the … More…