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American collectors make d’Orsay Museum the largest donation since World War II
02.11.2016 PARISTwo 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.
Scam of the century: fakes under the Old Masters upset the world of art
28.10.2016 AMSTERDAM. This picture convinced experts in The Louvre . The main French cultural officials declared it a national treasure.
"St. Jerome" Parmigianino - a fake? Investigation of scandal surrounding falsification of paintings continues
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.
Caravaggio’s painting was at the center of the money laundering trial
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.
Gentileschi’s painting discovered 4 years ago may turn out to be a modern fake
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.
The vicissitudes of fate: how in the UK the attitude towards the work of Caravaggio changed
15.10.2016 LONDONNext 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.
Two paintings by Van Gogh, stolen 14 years ago in Amsterdam, were discovered in a mansion of the Italian mafia
13.10.2016 NAPLESNaples police found two paintings by Vincent van Gogh that were stolen from the artist’s museum in Amsterdam (The Van Gogh Museum) fourteen years ago. According to the representative of the museum, their curator has already examined the work at the request of the Italian authorities and came to the unequivocal conclusion that they are real.
Eight parts of the Ghent Altar restored and accessible to visitors
12.10.2016 GENT. Eight of the twenty-four panels of the famous Ghent Altar or the “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, Van Eyck” altar after many years returned home, to St. Gavan’s Cathedral in Ghent.
Russian collector sponsored the return of the 17th century icon to Russia
05.10.2016 MOSCOW. Collector of icons Mikhail Abramov sponsored the return to Russia of a valuable 17th-century icon stolen in 1995 from a church in the Yaroslavl Region and recently discovered in a gallery in Venice.
A £ 3 Million Masterpiece Found in Swansea Museum Reserves
03.10.2016 SWONSI. A 17th-century Flemish masterpiece worth about £ 3 million was discovered in the storerooms of the Swansea Museum.
Cologne authorities return Menzel’s drawing purchased in 1939
30.09.2016 KOLN. Cologne authorities said they would hand over a drawing of Adolph von Menzel, bought by art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt in 1939, to the woman who sold it before escaping from Nazi Germany.
Vincent Van Gogh may have suffered from bipolar disorder
25.09.2016 HAGUE. Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh may have suffered from bipolar disorder and had a borderline personality.
Rijksmuseum opens new paintings by the Dutch master of the Golden Age
23.09.2016 AMSTERDAM. Until recently, only twelve paintings of the seventeenth-century artist Hercules Segers were known (Hercules Segers, 1589 / 90-1633 / 40).
Rembrandt’s four early works are first presented together at an exhibition in Oxford
21.09.2016 OXFORD. Four paintings from a series of five sensory organs, one of which was re-acquired only last year, will be presented together for the first time at the exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford.
Alec Baldwin accuses art dealer of fraud
19.09.2016 NEW YORK. The famous Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin appealed to the New York State Supreme Court with a lawsuit against art dealer Mary Boone. The court documents say that in 2010, Boone deceived Baldwin and sold him the wrong picture.