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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The National Gallery will display some works with mistaken identities, such as this bogus Botticelli.

Museum mistakes exposed in London show
Guardian - April 20th, 2010 19:33

The National Gallery in London will be showing off some embarrassing acquistions and misleading gifts in its major exhibition called Close Examination opening in June. Works once-removed from the gallery's walls for their dubious nature are being exhumed from the vaults. One of the museum's mistake is a lovely Florentine allegorical scene, circa 1500, bought as a Botticelli in 1874. The 'not right' work, which was purchased along with 'Venus and Mars,' a real ...

Maurice Prendergast, The Grand Canal, Venice, c. 1898—99. Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.123

Prendergast in Italy

Stephen May writes of the travelling Maurice Prendergast exhibition featuring the influential American modernist's most dazzling watercolors of Italy. Prendergast soaked in the ...

The Guyette & Schmidt auction is Thursday and Friday.

Bird decoy sales take off this week

Folk art and antique decoy collectors have descended upon the 45th National Antique Decoy and Sporting Collectibles Show for room-to-room trading this week at the Pheasant Run Resort in ...

'Counting Down’ (2008) by the Indian artist TV Santhosh.

So-called Man with a Golden Gavel is banking on BRIC

Auctioneer Simon de Pury tells the Guardian, "I don't think the market is as jittery as you suggest." He cites rapid-fire bidding at last week's Phillips de Pury auction ...

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