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Oil painting bought at a Spanish antique shop for $ 200, recognized as an early work of Salvador Dali
25.05.2014 MADRID. On Thursday, art experts officially announced that a painting painted in oil and purchased at an antique store in Spain more than two decades ago for 150 euros ($ 200) was recognized as one of the first surrealist works that Salvador Dali created in his teens.
$ 33 Million Defendants Defined in Case of Selling Fake Artworks
01.05.2014 NEW YORK. This week in New York, three men were charged with a $ 33 million scam. For more than two decades, the defendants have faked and sold artworks allegedly owned by world-famous artists through an art gallery.
Soon, a mysterious female portrait of Gustav Klimt will be exhibited for the first time in Vienna.
26.04.2014 VEIN. The almost unknown portrait of Gustav Klimt, which was once considered one of the artist’s earliest works, was re-dated after restoration work.
More than 100 of the best works from the collection of the Albertina Museum in a new grand exhibition
22.04.2014 VEIN. A grand exhibition in the heart of historical Vienna - the Albertina Museum, presents to the public all the most valuable treasures of the gallery.
£ 30,000 for Titian’s sketch worth millions
05.04.2014 EDINBURGH. The National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh has opened the exhibition Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Art, which presents for the first time a new drawing by the great master.
Search for stolen masterpiece by Gustav Klimt resumed after 17 years
30.03.2014 The Italian police reopened the case of a painting stolen 17 years ago by Gustav Klimt. The canvas was stolen from a gallery in the city of Piacenza, located in northern Italy.
Ancient mural broken out of a wall in Pompeii
30.03.2014 POMPEII. In early March, thieves stole an ancient fresco depicting the goddess Artemis, breaking it out of the wall of the House of Neptune and Amphitrite in the UNESCO-protected part of Pompeii, which is closed to visitors.
Art critic Bendor Grosvenor found a real portrait of Prince Charles
18.03.2014 EDINBURGH. Once, Bendor Grosvenor broke the hearts of thousands of Scots and the entire national souvenir industry by announcing that the portrait, which was considered to be the only image of handsome Prince Charlie that came to us, actually depicts his younger brother Henry.
Can you believe the expertise in the modern art market?
12.03.2014 A fake painting by Marc Chagall, owned by a businessman from Leeds and bought for £ 100,000 in 1992, was publicly burned last month, and the Istanbul Art Gallery closed an entire exhibition of Juan Miro in 2013 after a comment by one of the experts that some works at the exhibition are fakes.
Paul Gauguin’s largest monographic exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
08.03.2014 NEW YORK. The largest monographic exhibition of the French artist Paul Gauguin "Metamorphoses" will be held at MoMA in New York.
Italian cleaning lady throws a piece of modern art into the trash
23.02.2014 BARI. A cleaning lady in southern Italy mistakenly threw into the trash works of modern art, which were to become part of the exhibition in the local gallery of modern art.
Pictures of Juan Miro will still be auctioned
23.02.2014 LONDON. The auction for the sale of 85 works by the Catalan artist Juan Miro, owned by the Portuguese government, will be held in London in June this year.
A new exhibition at the Museum of Art of Mascarella raises the debate around the work of Caravaggio
22.02.2014 WILLIAMSBURG. Visitors to the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, USA, have a rare opportunity to see three magnificent paintings by Caravaggio and listen to the debates of world leading authorities on Italian painting.
Specialists of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics have solved the mystery of the picture attributed to Leger
18.02.2014 VENICE. In the early 1970s, Douglas Cooper, a friend of the famous art collector, American Peggy Guggenheim and creative expert Fernand Henri Léger, expressed doubts about the authenticity of this artist’s paintings in the collection Peggy.
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.