Important news 26.06.2011 05.05.2011
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26.06.2011 The image of St. Augustine by Caravaggio was first exhibited at the current Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome exhibition in Ottawa. This masterpiece was re-"found" in a collection collected by the patrons of the artist : Cardinal Benedetto Justiniani and his brother Marquez Vincenzo.
25.06.2011 Was Vincent van Gogh an impulsive brush genius? How did the paints survive the destructive effect of time? Did Van Gogh paint a portrait of his brother, Theo?
23.06.2011 Portraits of three beloved women of the great artist of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso, raised the maximum amount at London’s Christie’s, who opened a series of art auctions, which will be held in the next few weeks.
12.06.2011 The retired electrician, Pierre Le Gennec, turned out to be the most unexpected art collector: he discovered 271 unknown works by Picasso.
31.05.2011 Russia’s response to a court decision to return items to the Jewish group of Chabad is a ban on the transfer of exhibits for temporary use to American museums.
23.05.2011 Sotheby’s auction house decided to show the Moscow public the masterpieces of the upcoming Russian auction in London. An exhibition of the top lots of the upcoming June auction took place at the State Historical Museum on Red Square for several days until May 20, 2011.
19.05.2011 This is the first robbery of China’s main historical landmark in 20 years. Museum authorities are planning an emergency modernization of security systems.
18.05.2011 The illustration “The Merry Nymph” by Gil Elvgren, sold for $ 286,800, set a new world record for value for the artist’s work, several times breaking his pre-auction estimate of $ 60,000.
18.05.2011 NEW HAVEN - On May 10, Yale University Administration announced that Yale would be the first Ivy League institution to open free online access to digitized images of millions of objects from the university’s libraries, museums and archives.
13.05.2011 On May 11 at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art auction in New York, Andy Warhol’s first self-portrait of 1963-64 was sold for $ 38,442,500.
12.05.2011 “We are very pleased with the results of the bidding process, which allowed the auction to gain a total of $ 128,104,500,” said Tobias Meyer, head of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Department.
11.05.2011 The British National Gallery plans to limit the number of tickets for the upcoming Leonardo da Vinci exhibition to reduce people’s discontent from the stampede due to too many visitors.
07.05.2011 This year, at the TEFAF Art and Antiques Fair in Maastricht, paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Jan Livens were sold to private collectors.
06.05.2011 The meeting of Antony and Cleopatra: 41 BC (The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra: 41 BC) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was sold on May 5 at the 19th Century European Art Auction held at Sotheby’s in New York, for $ 29,202,500.
05.05.2011 The volume of evening trading on impressionists and contemporary art on May 3, 2011, Sotheby’s in New York reached $ 170,478,000, which, in general, corresponds to a preliminary estimate ($ 158.9-229.7 million).