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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, September 10, 2009
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 | American Patriot For Sale: Hindman will hammer down Nathan Hale sculpture
Auction Central News - September 9th, 2009 23:55
On Sunday, Sept. 13, Chicago-based Leslie Hindman will host a 220-lot auction featuring postwar, Contemporary, American and European art. The top lot is an 1890 Frederick William MacMonnies bronze of American patriot Nathan Hale. Considered the State Hero of Connecticut, and widely acknowledged as America's first spy, Hale was 21 years old when he was hanged by the British in 1776. From the gallows, he uttered his famous last words, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for ...Read more | |
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 | Dispute over Prized Pissarro: Holocaust survivor can sue Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
AP - September 9th, 2009 23:35
LOS ANGELES — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that 88-year-old Holocaust survivor Claude Cassirer's case against the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid and the Spanish government can go forward. Cassirer, of San Diego, claimed his grandmother was forced to sell the 1897 painting by French impressionist Camille Pissarro for what was then $360 to get a visa to escape from Nazi Germany in 1939. Valued at $20 million, "Rue St.-Honore, Apres-Midi, Effet de ...Read more | |
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 | More than Expensive Eggs: Faberge comes back with jewelry collection online
Reuters - September 9th, 2009 18:04
GOODWOOD HOUSE, England - Revived luxury firm Faberge, whose namesake designed jewel-encrusted eggs for Russian Tsars, plans to sell its first collection of jewelry pieces worth up to $7 million each to the ultra rich on the Web.
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 | Restitution Win: Sweden settles with Jewish heirs over Nazi-looted painting
Bloomberg - September 9th, 2009 23:23
Sweden’s Moderna Museet and the heirs of a Jewish businessman forced to flee Germany before World War II settled a seven-year dispute over a Nazi-looted Emil Nolde painting titled "Blumengarten" (Flower Garden) in the museum’s collection. Under the terms agreed between the museum and the elderly heirs, a private European collector whom they declined to name has purchased the painting and will loan it to the Moderna Museet...Read more | |
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