31.01.2017 NEW YORK. Who says that the biggest and fastest profits can be made only by selling contemporary art? This is not so, but only if you have a trained eye and you are well acquainted with the history of art.
04.01.2017 Looking through local auction catalogs on the Internet, every art lover dreams of discovering a long-lost or unknown work of a great artist, hidden among thousands of old paintings, books and furniture.
29.11.2016 LONDON. Courtauld Gallery restorers in London believe their version of Le déjeuner sur l’Herbe by Édouard Manet is not just a copy of a painting from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and her preparatory phase.
27.11.2016 AMSTERDAM. The Rijksmuseum has released its own cookbook, which includes descriptions of 130 dishes from 50 ingredients traditional for Holland.
26.11.2016 NEW YORK. The picture "Rack" (La Meule, 1891) by Claude Monet (Claude Monet, 1840-1926) became the top lot of the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale auction, which Christie’s auction house held on November 16.
13.11.2016
PARIS. After 10 months of restoration
The louvre museum
put up a picture again
"St. John the Baptist" (St John the Baptist)
one of the last works
Leonardo da Vinci
. The masterpiece took its place in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, which is visited by about 9 million people a year.
12.11.2016 VEIN. Pretending to be potential buyers, Austrian law enforcement authorities arrested a group of dealers selling fake paintings by Pablo Picasso back in July 2016, but details of this operation have been released just now.
05.11.2016 EX-AN-PROVENCE. A former electrician who had kept about 300 works of Pablo Picasso in his garage for almost 40 years, told the French Court of Appeals that the artist’s widow may have wanted to hide these works from her family.
02.11.2016 PARIS. Two collectors from the United States, Spencer and Marlene Hays, donated the Musée d’Orsay to their personal art collection. This donation was the largest for France since World War II - more than 600 paintings from the late XIX - early XX centuries, including works by Pierre Bonnard, Eduard Vuillard, Amedeo Modigliani and Henri Matisse.
24.10.2016 PARIS.
Painting "Saint Jerome" (Saint Jerome)
attributed to
Parmigianino (Parmigianino)
, may be involved in a scandal involving private collectors, a large auction house and famous museums. There is reason to believe that the picture is a fake.
18.10.2016 PARIS. Caravaggio’s painting was the main evidence of the prosecution in the case of the Franco-American billionaire from the Wildenstein dynasty.
17.10.2016 LONDON. Orazio Gentileschi’s painting David Contemplating the Head of Goliath, Orazio Gentileschi, until recently at the National Gallery in London, may turn out to be a fake. If so, it will seriously undermine the credibility of the gallery.
15.10.2016 LONDON. Next month, the National Gallery in London opens the exhibition "After Caravaggio" (Beyond Caravaggio), which will present the work of followers of the Italian maestro of the Baroque era. The exhibition includes 49 paintings provided mainly by educational institutions in the UK, such artists as Orazio Gentileschi, Jusepe de Ribera and Valantin de Boulogne.
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