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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 BERLINGerhard Richter, 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.
13.03.2015 MADRIDUsually, 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.
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.
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.
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.
23.02.2015 After a break of almost ten years, the Edward Munch Award was restored in partnership with the Norwegian oil and gas international company Statoil.
23.02.2015 NEW YORK. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published an 82-page report on the violation of the rights of migrant workers on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates working on branch construction Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre) and the Guggenheim Museum (Guggenheim museums).
21.02.2015 PARIS. The exhibition of large-scale sculptures by American artist Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons), which was supposed to open in the Louvre, is canceled. The reason is very prosaic - lack of money.
19.02.2015 Corruption in the art world is one of the main topics of discussion - every second art show is perplexing with its commercial component.
14.02.2015 LUGANO. The Italian authorities returned the portrait of Isabella d’Este, attributed to the brush Leonardo da Vinci , worth 95 million euros, which was illegally exported from the country.
12.02.2015 GRASS. Could Picasso donate 271 his work to an electrician who worked for him for several years in a house in southeastern France? The decision will be made by a French court, which began to consider the case of Pierre Le Guennec and his wife, Daniel.
08.02.2015 SAN FRANCISCO. The Lost Art Salon art gallery has announced the opening of a previously unknown, two-sided drawing by Gustav Klimt.