Antiques dealers arrested and $4.5m worth of ivory seized in New York
We have been reading and hearing a lot about the ban on ivory and how it has crushed that market. I do believe there needs to be checks on ivory and make sure that it is ‘antique’; however, it just does … More…
AVAILABLE: Georges Laugee’s “Returning from the Fields”
Source: Returning from the Fields – we just added the 19th century French Realist painting by Georges Laugée (1853-1937) to our available online inventory. Laugée was Julien Dupré’s brother-in-law and the two shared a studio for a number of years. … More…
Join the queue – Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Great article on an artist’s and gallery’s attempt to control a market. Will it work? In the short run yes, but we all know that at some point more works will hit the private market and then all bets are … More…
“Still Lifes” @Whistler House Museum of Art through November
A work by our good friend Todd Casey is featured in a review of the upcoming exhibition at the Whistler House Museum of Art — “Still Life” — that just appeared in Fine Art Today. Sara Bogosian, the museum’s president … More…
Rijksmuseum Attributes Six Works to a Dutch Old Master – Hercules Segers
According to Nina Siegal’s article in The New York Times: New research leads the Rijksmuseum to conclude that six new works should be part of the canon of the little-known Dutch artist Hercules Segers. The Rijksmuseum is presenting the six works … More…
Heirs of Matisse Painting Demand its Return
The heirs to an Henri Matisse painting lost during World War II have demanded in court that it be returned from the National Gallery of Art, London, along with $30 million in damages. The painting in question is a 1908 work … More…