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Francis Bacon painting sold for a record price
14.02.2014 LONDON. The painting by British artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) “Portrait of a Talking George Dyer” was yesterday the most expensive work of the painter ever sold at auction.
Did the priest find the original Murillo?
14.02.2014 GRENADA, SPAIN. Joaquin Caler (Joaquin Caler), a rural priest, whose parish includes three small villages near Grenada, in southern Spain, claims to have made the greatest discovery in the field of art.
Michelangelo was an experienced forger
11.02.2014 Art critic Thierry Lenain of Institut Français in London claims that Michelangelo often faked works of art.
Treasures stolen by the Nazis were rescued by simple miners
07.02.2014 The recently published book by Konrad Kramar, an Austrian writer and journalist, sheds new light on what happened to the tremendous artistic treasures plundered by the Nazis for the potential “Fuhrer Museum” in the Austrian city of Linz.
85 paintings of Juan Miró were auctioned
07.02.2014 On Tuesday, Christie’s auction house canceled the sale of 85 paintings by the Catalan surrealist Juan Miro due to, as the official statement said, legal uncertainties arose. The seller of the collection was the Portuguese government.
In Paris, they will burn fake Chagall
06.02.2014 When Martin Lang, a businessman from Yorkshire, acquired the Nude painting, attributed to Marc Chagall, for £ 100,000, he hoped it would become a family property.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Recalls Real Treasure Hunters
04.02.2014 KANSAS CITY. So far, movie theaters around the world are showing the new film, The Monuments Men, based on real historical facts.
Two versions of Van Gogh’s "Sunflowers" met at an exhibition at the National Gallery in London
02.02.2014 Two versions of the same plot of the most famous series of Van Gogh met at the National Gallery (The National Gallery) in London, for the first time since 1947.
The exhibition of Dutch masters in New York gathered a record number of visitors
23.01.2014 The record number of visitors was collected in New York by the exhibition "Vermeer, Rembrandt and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis", dedicated to the work of old Dutch masters.
Baltimore Museum of the Arts regains the stolen Renoir
13.01.2014 ARLINGTON. Put up for auction in 2012, On the Shore of the Seine, owned by Pierre Auguste Renoir and bought by Marcia Fuqua at the flea market for $ 7, returned to the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore Museum of Art), from which it was stolen in 1951.
Was Dürer’s father an artist?
08.01.2014 BERLIN. The portrait of Dürer’s father, who has always been an art historian for the works of Albrecht Jr., is quite possibly a self-portrait of his father, Albrecht the Elder.
In England, tax breaks for owners of masterpieces in exchange for public access to them were just a scheme for tax evasion
03.01.2014 In the UK, owners of 115,000 works of art are exempted from paying inheritance or capital gains tax in exchange for their promise to provide public access to their masterpieces, but in reality it’s not at all easy to look at these works.
The curator of the Detroit Institute of the Arts discovered a new work by Spanish artist Murillo
23.11.2013 MIDOE BROOK HALL. A casual visit to Meadow Brook Hall by the curator of the Detroit Institute of Arts led to the discovery of 17th-century magnificent work by Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
Cornelius Gurlitt will be returned to the works of art confiscated from him earlier
22.11.2013 BERLIN. German authorities said on Tuesday that some paintings would be ordered to be returned to Cornelius Gurlitt, who became world-famous after more than 1,400 world art masterpieces found in his apartment by the collector’s father in the Third Reich era.
New records at Sotheby’s auction
22.11.2013 NEW YORK. November 14 at Sotheby’s auction left the last of four paintings by Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol), presented as part of the days of contemporary art.