Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508-12.News Feed

New York Man Believes He Owns a Missing Michelangelo

AP / July 20th, 2017

A man in New York state thinks he has a painting by Michelangelo that hung for years in his living room. Martin Kober has moved the painting to secure storage while he works on getting the 9-by-25-inch (48-by-64-centimeter) painting of ...

Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983), Down’s Gulch, oil on canvas, 24 by 36 inches, Estimate: $80,000-$120,000Calendar

The Sporting Sale 2017 Featuring the Donal C. O’Brien, Jr. Collection of Important American Sporting Art and Decoys

Plymouth / July 27-28, 2017

Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC will present a two-day sale event on July 27 and 28 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Donal C. O’Brien, Jr. Collection of Important American Sporting Art and Decoys, Sessions I & II, will be available at...

With its luminous palette and feathery brushstrokes, "Le Gué aux Cinq Vaches" is exemplary of Corot's mature style. Oil on canvas. Signed "Corot", circa 1865Blogs

The Landscapes of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Beauty, Rarity, History...The M.S. Rau Antiques Blog / June 13th, 2017 10:56

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot is regarded by many as the most important landscape artist of the 19th century. Though he identified primarily with the Barbizon artists that painted in the Forest of Fontainebleau, Corot proved to be a...

Odysseus hiding under a ram to escape from the cave of Polyphemus, part of the Torlonia Collection.

Antiquities Dealer Sues Wall Street Journal Over Article on ISIS Link

Courthouse News Service / July 18th, 2017

An antiquities dealer has sued the Wall Street Journal over an article linking his family-run art gallery to ISIS, reports Courthouse New Service. It is the second major lawsuit instigated by the gallery this year. Hicham Aboutaam, ...

Humans form a record- sized lotus flower on July 15, 2017, in Lotus Live organized by the Asian Art Museum, SF.

Asian Art Museum Clinches Guinness World Record for Largest Human Flower Art

ArtfixDaily / July 17th, 2017

A Guinness World Record was set Saturday when the Asian Art Museum organized 2,405 people at San Francisco's Civic Center to form a huge green and pink lotus flower together.  Dubbed Lotus Live, the event created the largest recorded ...

$600 Million Historical Art Collection Heads to a Contemporary Art Museum

New York Times / July 17th, 2017

Near Turin, Italy, a private art collection with notable works spanning the 13th-to-20th centuries, and valued at $600 million, will radically transform a contemporary art museum, reports the New York Times. In a statement, the ...

Rendering for a new exhibit space at Berkshire Museum.

Berkshire Museum to Sell $50 Million in Art to Fund "Reinvention Plan"

Berkshire Museum / July 16th, 2017

On Wednesday, July 12, 2017, the Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts announced a $60 million "reinvention plan" that includes deaccessiong two artworks by Norman Rockwell, among 40 pieces from its 40,000-object permanent collection slated ...

Palazzo Ducale, Genoa

Italian Authorities Seize 21 Paintings from Modigliani Exhibition

Telegraph / July 16th, 2017

Some 21 paintings in an exhibition of works by famed modernist Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) were seized by Italian authorities as part of an investigation into their authenticity. Displayed at the historic Doge’s Palace (Palazzo ...

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Image of stolen Francis Bacon works.
3 Stolen Francis Bacon Paintings Recovered by Police in Spain

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Humans form a record- sized lotus flower on July 15, 2017, in Lotus Live organized by the Asian Art Museum, SF.
Asian Art Museum Clinches Guinness World Record for Largest Human Flower Art

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$600 Million Historical Art Collection Heads to a Contemporary Art Museum

general antiques & arts

Ralph Griffin (1952-1992), "Noah's Ark," ca. 1980. Found wood, nails, paint, 18.75 x 68.75 x 14.5 in.Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, museum purchase, American Art Trust Fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection. Artwork: © Estate of Ralph Griffin.
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Odysseus hiding under a ram to escape from the cave of Polyphemus, part of the Torlonia Collection.
Antiquities Dealer Sues Wall Street Journal Over Article on ISIS Link

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Prophet Royal Robertson at SHRINE, booth 58.
Inside NYC's Outsider Art Fair

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Geoffrey Munn with the Faberge find.
$1.27 Million Fabergé Find Stuns on Antiques Roadshow

jewelry & watches

Arriving on the red carpet of Masterpiece London. Photography by Andy Barnham
Gems Worth $3.9 Million Stolen From Masterpiece Art Fair

medieval & renaissance art

Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine."
Poland Acquires Art Collection Worth 2 Billion Euros for 'Bargain' Price
 

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  • Guy C. Wiggins (1883 - 1962) Winter Along Central Park. Signed, Guy Wiggins, NA, lower right, titled and signed again, verso, oil on canvas, 30" x 25". The Cooley Gallery at the Armory Antique Show.
  • Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) Blue Mountain, New Mexico, 1918. Pastel on paper 17 x 27 1/2 inches. James Reinish & Associates, Inc.
  • Ammi Phillips. Portrait of a Winsome Young Girl in Red with Green Slippers, Dog and Bird. Est. $300/500,000.
  • LOUIS VALTAT, Vase de Fleurs, Oil on canvas, 21 3/8 x 25 ¾ inches (54.3 x 65.4 cm), Schiller & Bodo European Paintings
  • Mary Cassatt (1845-1926) Children Playing with a Cat, 1908. Oil on canvas, 32 x 39 ½ inches. Courtesy of John H. Surovek Gallery.
  • Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951) Summer Day, 1911. Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 32 1/8 in. (91.8 x 81.6 cm). Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Photography by Dwight Primiano. © Estate of Frank Weston Benson / Licensed by Faith Andrews Bedford, St. Petersburg, FL
  • The Dancers, by Arthur Frank Mathews (1869-1945), oil on board, City of Monterey deHaven/Jacks Collection.
  • Catalogue cover featuring a detail of William Frederick de Haas (1830–1880), Fishermen Off Beavertail Light, 1875.
  • Dale Chihuly, Lime Green Icicle Tower, installed in the Shapiro Family Courtyard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  • Lockwood de Forest's (1850 - 1932) Full Moon Over Sea, 1906, is part of an exhibition of the artist's work at Sullivan Goss Gallery in Santa Barbara, CA., January 6-April 11, 2011.
  • Snowy Owls from John James Audubon's Birds of America at Sotheby's Dec. 7 London auction.
  • Charles Courtney Curran (American, 1861-1942) Breakfast for Three, 1909. Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches. Gift of the West Foundation in honor of Gudmund Vigtel 2010.117. High Museum of Art.
  • At Bonhams is Everett Shinn (American, 1876-1953) The Singer, 1920. Pastel on paper, 13 x 16 1/2in. Estimate: $100,000 - 150,000
  • Frank Vining Smith, The Seventh Wave, 1942. Oil on canvas, 40 x 60 in. Private Collection.
  • Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Croquet Players, 1865.
  • Willard L. Metcalf's (1858–1925) Poppy Field (Landscape at Giverny), 1886. Oil on canvas, 10 5/8 x 18 5/16 inches. Inscribed on verso: La Maison de Claude Monet Giverny. Looking across from the end of my garden W. L. Metcalf
  • John Marin American (1856-1915) The Times Tower, West 42nd Street, circa 1909-10 Watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 inches. Courtesy of Thomas Colville Fine Art.
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  • Eduard Charlemont Austrian, 1848-1906 Artist in his Studio 1890 signed and dated lower right: Ed. Charlemont 1890 oil on cradled panel 36 x 28 ½ inches 46 x 38 inches framed Schiller & Bodo European Paintings
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  • Master of the Johnson Assumption (Tuscany, active c.1485-1515), Madonna and Child with Young Saint John the Baptist, Tondo, tempera on panel. Diameter: 88.5 cm, 34⅞ ins
  • Artist: Hu Li Title: Backward Backward Courtesy of MR Gallery

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