Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesDamien Hirst’s ‘The Kingdom’, featuring a tiger shark in formaldehyde, on display at Sotheby’s in London in 2008. LONDON — Don’t know much about art, but you know what you like? Well, what do you think of Damien Hirst, he of the pickled shark and diamond-encrusted skull? The 46-year-old Briton is reputedly...
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CINCINNATI — Fool me once, the saying goes. But 50 times? That’s what a convincing art forger did for nearly three decades when he donated his copies of Picassos and other works of art to unsuspecting museums in 20 states. Mark A. Landis, who has dressed as a Jesuit priest or posed as a...
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NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced the forthcoming sale of an outstanding private American collection of Post War and Contemporary Art: The Property from the Pincus Collection. As philanthropists, humanitarians, and art patrons, David Pincus and his wife Geraldine, known as Gerry, enjoyed a collection of Post War and Contemporary art since the early 60s....
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A cigar box painted with a depiction of Napoleon watching the Moscow Kremlin in flames, is estimated will bring a quarter of a million dollars at auction. It’s one of the highlights in a Sotheby’s auction of Russian art works next month. As this year marks the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Borodino,...
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NEW YORK A collection of post war and contemporary art is coming to a New York City auction. It includes a Mark Rothko painting with a pre-sale estimate of up to $45 million. The works were collected by the late David Pincus of Philadelphia and his wife, Gerry Pincus. The May 8-9 sale also...
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An auction of Indian and Southeast Asian works of art Mar. 22 brought a total of $3,804,726, at Sotheby’s, according to a press release from the auction house. Among the works that earned record figures were a 12th century standing Vishnu from Nepal, which sold for $590,500 (est. $200/300,000), followed by Uma from Khmer...
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Victor Hugo, who wrote the famous, often-adapted novels “Les Misérables” and “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” called his visual artworks “random pen strokes thrown more or less maladroitly on paper by a man who has other things to do.” But the author drew some 3,000 mostly ink-on-paper pieces, many dark and experimental. Enlarge Image Christie’s...
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“Orange, Red, Yellow” (1961) by Mark Rothko. The oil on canvas work is 93″ x 81.” Source: Christie’s via Bloomberg “Untitled I” (1980) by Willem de Kooning. The oil on canvas work is 80″ x 70.” Source: Christie’s via Bloomberg Enlarge image “No. 28″ Christie’s via Bloomberg “No. 28” (1951) by Jackson Pollock. The...
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.cnn_html_media_utility::before{color:red;content:’>>’;font-size:9px;line-height:12px;padding-right:1px} .cnnstrylccimg640{margin:0 27px 14px 0} .captionText{filter:alpha(opacity=100);opacity:1} .cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:visited,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:link,.captionText a,.captionText a:visited,.captiontext a:link{color:outline:medium none} .cnnVerticalGalleryPhoto{margin:0 auto;padding-right:68px;width:270px} ]]> A study for Paul Cezanne’s master work “The Card Players,” missing for decades, has been rediscovered among the paintings of a Texas art collector, and will be sold at auction later this year. French painter Paul Cezanne...
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