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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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 | Highlights: photo l.a. 2010
ARTFIXdaily - January 19th, 2010 04:00
The 19th annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, considered to be the foremost event of its kind in the U.S., opened to enthusiastic crowds in Santa Monica, Calif., on January 14. From provocative to pretty, images at photo l.a. encompassed popular black-and-whites by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the influential work of Diane Arbus, shocking documentary photos such as Eddie Adams' 1968 portrayal of a South Vietnamese police chief executing a Viet Cong officer (price: ...Read more | |
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 | Early O'Keeffe painting emerges from Cape Cod collection
Cape Cod Times - January 18th, 2010 20:43
A valuable early painting by Georgia O'Keeffe will be auctioned this month after art experts solved the mystery of where it has been since 1924. For most of the time, it was in a private collection on Cape Cod. The artist's "Alligator Pear in White Dish," painted in 1921, is expected to sell for $100,000 to $150,000 on Jan. 29 at Skinner Inc. in Boston. The sellers are descendants of Katrina Grullemans of Chatham, who bought the 9-by-12-inch O'Keeffe painting for $500 in ...Read more | |
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 | Treasure trove of paintings revealed in Bucks County
The Reporter - January 18th, 2010 22:40
The castle-like Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Penn., which is fundraising for a $12 million expansion, offers an eyeful from its collection of paintings in the exhibit "Three Centuries of Bucks County Art and Artists." Usually held in "open storage," the seldom-seen cache now on display includes "The Peaceable Kingdom" and "Washington at the Delaware" by Edward Hicks, three works by Daniel Garber, paintings by Charles Willson Peale and Martin Johnson ...Read more | |
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 | Choice lots for Philly-philes at Americana Week auctions
Philadelphia Inquirer - January 18th, 2010 22:19
Four Chinese export pieces made for Society of the Cincinnati members, including a plate ordered for George Washington, with an estimated value of $30,000 to $50,000, are sure to be hotly contested at Sotheby's Jan. 23 sale of Pennsylvanian Elinor Gordon's collection. Americana Week in New York will also draw bidders for pieces such as the magnificent 1829 Maxwell presentation vase created by Philadelphia silversmiths Fletcher & Gardiner, est. $250,000 to $350,000, at ...Read more | |
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 - Giovanni 119x160.jpg "The Singer (La Cantante mondana), c. 1884, by Giovanni Boldini Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 1/8 in. (61 x 46 cm) Collezione Fondazione Carife, on deposit at the Gallerie d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Ferrara") | PICTURE YOURSELF AT THE PARTY OF THE SEASON
Release Date: 15 January 2010
The party of the season takes place on Saturday, February 13, from 6 to 8 pm, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. "Picture Yourself at the Clark" celebrates the opening of the Clark exhibition Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris with an evening of live music, delectable ...Read more | |
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