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15.10.2016 LONDON. Next month, the National Gallery in London opens the exhibition "After Caravaggio" (Beyond Caravaggio), which will present the work of followers of the Italian maestro of the Baroque era. The exhibition includes 49 paintings provided mainly by educational institutions in the UK, such artists as Orazio Gentileschi, Jusepe de Ribera and Valantin de Boulogne.
13.10.2016 NAPLES. Naples police found two paintings by Vincent van Gogh that were stolen from the artist’s museum in Amsterdam (The Van Gogh Museum) fourteen years ago. According to the representative of the museum, their curator has already examined the work at the request of the Italian authorities and came to the unequivocal conclusion that they are real.
12.10.2016 GENT. Eight of the twenty-four panels of the famous Ghent Altar or the “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, Van Eyck” altar after many years returned home, to St. Gavan’s Cathedral in Ghent.
05.10.2016 MOSCOW. Collector of icons Mikhail Abramov sponsored the return to Russia of a valuable 17th-century icon stolen in 1995 from a church in the Yaroslavl Region and recently discovered in a gallery in Venice.
03.10.2016 SWONSI. A 17th-century Flemish masterpiece worth about £ 3 million was discovered in the storerooms of the Swansea Museum.
30.09.2016 KOLN. Cologne authorities said they would hand over a drawing of Adolph von Menzel, bought by art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt in 1939, to the woman who sold it before escaping from Nazi Germany.
25.09.2016 HAGUE. Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh may have suffered from bipolar disorder and had a borderline personality.
23.09.2016 AMSTERDAM. Until recently, only twelve paintings of the seventeenth-century artist Hercules Segers were known (Hercules Segers, 1589 / 90-1633 / 40).
21.09.2016 OXFORD. Four paintings from a series of five sensory organs, one of which was re-acquired only last year, will be presented together for the first time at the exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford.
19.09.2016 NEW YORK. The famous Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin appealed to the New York State Supreme Court with a lawsuit against art dealer Mary Boone. The court documents say that in 2010, Boone deceived Baldwin and sold him the wrong picture.
14.09.2016 NORFOLK. Like all teenagers, 14-year-old Kieron Williamson likes to kick the ball with his friends after school on the field in his village of Ladem, in Norfolk (East of England). But outside the football field, it is very different from peers. A few years ago, reporters nicknamed Kiron Williamson "Mini-Monet."
10.09.2016 BRUSSELS. A painting bought through a used-goods website was identified as the work of Dutch abstract artist Willem de Kooning, lost many years ago. The portrait of the child was purchased by a Belgian couple for 450 euros (about 390 pounds) last year. Now its value is estimated at 50,000 pounds.
07.09.2016 OSLO. To determine the origin of the spot on the version Edward Munch’s Scream (Edvard Munch, The Scream), which was written in 1893 and is now in the collection of the Norway’s National Museum, the researchers used X-ray diffraction. For a long time they thought that the spot was a trace of bird droppings, but it turned out that this was not so.
01.09.2016 CHICAGO. The Scottish artist was sued after he refused to confirm the authenticity of the painting, painted forty years ago and signed by his name.
27.07.2016 LONDON. BBC experts argue that the controversial painting, worth 300,000 pounds, was painted precisely by Lucian Freud, despite the fact that the artist himself denied his authorship throughout his life. Fiona Bruce and art historian Philip Mold, authors of the Fake or Fortune Air Force program, are sure that it was Freud who painted the picture of a man in a black tie.