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27.04.2015 Online art sales rose to $ 2.64 million, according to The Hiscox Online Art Trade Report 2015. Last year, the figure was $ 1.57 million. Such figures are given in a report released on Tuesday by the British insurance company Hiscox.


21.04.2015 LONDON. All famous drawings from the private album “Witches and Old Women” Francisco Goya (1746-1828) were presented in their original sequence.


13.04.2015 VEIN. The director of one of the museums in Vienna requires the introduction of temporary restrictions on claims for the restitution of works of art seized by the Nazis.


10.04.2015 ROME. Italian police discovered a picture of Pablo Picasso, estimated at 15 million euros.


16.03.2015 BERLIN. Gerhard Richter (1932), who today is considered the most expensive artist of the living, said in an interview with Die Zeit that he “watched with horror” as an anonymous buyer paid 46.7 million US dollars for his painting “ Abstract Painting ”(Abstraktes Bild, 1986) at Sotheby’s auction held on February 10 this year in London.


14.03.2015 LONDON. Experts have found out why the heroes of the early paintings of the great 18th-century England portrait painter Joshua Reynolds have a very pale appearance. It’s all about choosing pigments.


At the Prado Museum, the blind can touch the masterpieces

13.03.2015 MADRID. Usually, visitors to the Prado Museum (Museo del Prado) cannot come closer to the paintings than at arm’s length. But recently, a completely ordinary Spaniard, Jose Pedro González, got the opportunity to slide his fingers over one of El Greco’s most famous paintings, The Nobleman With His Hand on His Chest. How did this become possible?


Artprice.com: A Billion Dollars Per Picture? Quite possible!

11.03.2015 PARIS. The thirteenth edition of the 13th Annual Global Art Market Report, prepared by Artprice, the world leader in fine arts market information and its institutional partner in China, Art Market Monitor of Artron, contains 288 pages of information instead traditional 180.


Goya’s fake painting was sold for fake money

09.03.2015 MEXICO CITY. The incident that occurred with the brothers James and John Font, natives of Girona, is worthy of being included in the history of not only art, but also forensics.


Picasso’s stolen painting discovered in New York

05.03.2015 NEW YORK. Picasso’s painting, stolen over ten years ago from Paris, “surfaced” in the United States, where it was sent under the guise of a regular parcel. La Coiffeuse (Hairdresser), written in 1911, was found back in December, in a batch of FedEx mailings sent from Belgium to New York.


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