A $59 Million Klimt Tops a Landmark Sotheby’s Auction in London
This past week’s sales in London were very strong and at the end of the month we will cover all the action. I am posting this short article because I found the last paragraph very interesting: Before the auction, Klimt’s … More…
SOLD: Edouard Cortes’s “L’Arc de Triomphe”
Source: L’Arc de Triomphe – this 1930s Paris Street scene by Edouard Cortes (1882-1969) came and went before we could add it to our available inventory. The Arc de Triomphe, the most illustrious symbol of French national history, stands in the … More…
Comments on the Art Market – Volume 195
Source: Newsletter Archives – our latest edition of Comments on the Art Market was just released. In this issue we cover the upcoming Charleston show, Skin & Tonic (a gallery exhibition featuring over 100 paintings by Todd Casey and David Palumbo), The … More…
Modern technology meets high Renaissance
270,000 digital frames and 455 man hours later, the fresco’s decorating the Sistine Chapel have been photographed for the first time in over a decade. Michelangelo’s famous ceiling frescos from the 14th century, along with the celebrated “Last Judgment”, have … More…
The art fair is dead, long live the art fair
I was a little puzzled by Cornell Dewitt’s assertion that: Art fairs do not struggle or close because of competition from other fairs; they close because of competition for their client galleries’ and visitors’ money and attention… As a longtime exhibitor … More…
AVAILABLE: Antoine Blanchard’s “Flower Market, Paris”
Source: Flower Market, Paris – we have just added a rather rare and early scene by the 20th century French artist Antoine Blanchard (1910-1988) to our available online inventory. In all of our years dealing in Blanchard’s work we have had … More…
Son of Nazi governor returns art stolen from Poland during second world war
According to the article in The Guardian, Horst Wächter, the fourth of SS Gruppenführer Otto Wächter’s six children, has spent years trying to return a painting taken by his parents from the Potocki Palace. On Sunday, he attended a ceremony … More…
AVAILABLE: Edouard Cortes’s “Place de l’Opéra”
Source: Place de l’Opéra – we always love when we have to opportunity sell a work more than once. This c.1930s Edouard Cortes passed through our hands back in 2003 and 14 years later we got it back and are, once … More…
Wanted: a People’s Army to find network of hidden public art
Wow! I bet people never thought the Internet would open up their homes to potential unwanted visitors. Well, the British government is hoping it does. Not sure how I feel about the idea of a stranger walking into someone’s home … More…
Uffizi to show more female artists
It is nice to see that female artists are beginning to get more recognition. This March the Uffizi will mount an exhibition of Suor Plautilla Nelli (1523-1587) … Florence’s first known female artist … while the Pitti Palace will be … More…
Market Shifts Away from Auction Model Towards Dealer Sales
Tefaf’s annual report on the health of the art market is out and there were some interesting findings. First, there is a new author – Rachel Pownall, Professor of Finance at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (Clare McAndrew … More…