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California court rejects lawsuit against Sotheby’s

07.07.2013 A federal court in California rejected a lawsuit filed by collector Steven Brooks, who claimed that the painting he had bought at Sotheby’s in London in 2004 could not be put up for auction, as it had previously belonged to one of the leaders of the fascist movement to Hermann Goering.

El Greco set a record at Sotheby’s

07.07.2013 The work of the artist El Greco’s “Prayer of St. Dominic” set a new record for the works of the Spanish master.

The National Gallery attacked a picture of John Constable

03.07.2013 John Constable’s The Hay Wain was attacked the other day right in the hall of the National Gallery in London.

How Edward VIII borrowed paintings from the National Gallery

29.06.2013 King Edward VIII, at one time borrowed seven masterpieces from the National Gallery in London, including paintings by artists such as Canaletto and Jan van Os.

Amazon announces plans to open online art gallery

28.06.2013 Amazon.com is about to launch an online art gallery this year. The online store of books, electronics and clothes intends to offer its customers more than 1000 pieces of art in the collections of at least 125 galleries.

In the United States arrested a picture of Picasso

28.06.2013 WASHINGTON. The US Department of Justice, at the request of the Italian government, withdrew the work of Pablo Picasso, a preliminary estimate of the cost of which is 11.5 million US dollars.

Vandal spoiled the portrait of Elizabeth II

15.06.2013 LONDON. The portrait of the English Queen Elizabeth II, exhibited at Westminster Abbey, was damaged by turquoise spray paint and will now be removed from the exhibition.

German police opened the case of a multimillion-dollar fake paintings

14.06.2013 MUNICH. German police announced the disclosure of an international group engaged in fake painting. Basically, the group specialized in falsifying the work of Russian avant-garde artists.

Tintoretto painting discovered in one of the museums in London

12.06.2013 One of the paintings in the collection of paintings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum), belongs to the brush of the Italian master Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Tintoretto).

England will turn into the largest gallery in the world

12.06.2013 The UK will become the largest art gallery in the world thanks to the unique Art Everywhere exhibition, which will turn thousands of billboards into exhibits of the most iconic works from the country’s national museum collections.

The national idea of Russia presented in Venice

09.06.2013 The opening of the 55th Venice Biennale was accompanied by an unusual demonstration of a five-meter sculpture "RUSSIA - TRY THE BEST".

How authenticity of works of art is verified today

04.06.2013 ROME. Today in the art market there is such a situation when European auction houses, dealers and collectors are not able to conduct proper checks to avoid the sale of works of art stolen and wanted.

Still life of Ilya Mashkov sold for a record amount

04.06.2013 June 3 at Christie’s auction in London, a painting by Russian artist Ilya Mashkov (1881 - 1944), "Still Life with Fruits", dated 1910, was sold for a record amount of 7.2 million dollars

Figure by Rubens found in the archives of the University of Britain

29.05.2013 Drawings by Marie de Medici, Queen of France, made by Peter Paul Rubens today are in the collections of the British Museum, V&A, the Louvre, and, as it turned out today, in the archives of the University of Reading (Reading University).

Warhol Foundation corruption scandal

22.05.2013 PHILADELPHIA. Revealing material was published this week by the New York Review of Books (NYRB). They shed new light on the authentication processes used by Andy Warhol.