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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, November 23, 2009
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 | 'Paris, 1889' recreated in Cleveland
News-Herald - November 22nd, 2009 23:07
When Paul Gauguin's work was rejected from the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, he was insulted. So he contacted Volpini, the owner of Cafe des Arts next to the Exposition grounds and organized a group exhibition there, a seminal point in Gauguin's career. The Cleveland Museum of Art is now showing "Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889," a landmark exhibit about that exhibit, complete with 100 works by Gauguin and his contemporaries shown against cafe tables and wallpaper...Read more | |
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 | British royal heirlooms fetch $3.4 million at sale
Reuters - November 22nd, 2009 20:20
Pieces from the collection of Prince George Duke of Kent, son of King George V, and his wife Princess Marina, fetched 2.1 million pounds ($3.5 million) at a Christie's London auction Friday, nearly double pre-sale estimates. The top lot was a pair of George III mahogany hall benches, dating from around 1760, attributed to William and John Linnell, which sold for 187,250 pounds ($310,461) versus a pre-sale estimate of 30,000-50,000 pounds.
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 | Piercing questions about Mary Todd Lincoln's earrings' history
Kentucky.com - November 23rd, 2009 01:53
There's no doubt that the pair of apparently gold-mounted black onyx pendant earrings are old. But there is doubt that they were ever owned by former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Yet the Kentucky Historical Society, as part of the state's Abraham Lincoln bicentennial celebration, has been displaying and publicizing them as hers. Acquired at auction in late 2008 for more than $19,000, the earrings' provenance may need to be proven by a missing photograph...Read more | |
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 | YSL/Berge auction doubles estimates
Artinfo - November 20th, 2009 14:32
A pair of chairs featured in an Inca-themed ball at the Tuileries Gardens in 1812 ball reached €241,000, high above the estimate of €7–9,000, on the last day of the four-day auction of Yves Saint Laurent's collection. A 20th-century green enameled earthenware umbrella stand sold for €109,000, after being valued at just €300 to €500. The "house sale" portion of the designer's estate brought in $13.4 million.Read more | |
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 | Robert Sagerman: Workings
Release Date: 19 November 2009
Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to announce Workings, an exhibition of new paintings by New York artist Robert Sagerman. Robert Sagerman's work consists of rich, transcendent color fields that activate the eye. He builds up the lush surfaces by methodically applying thousands of daubs of oil ...Read more | |
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