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Investigators Probe Cold Case Murder for Clues to Gardner Museum Heist
Smithsonian Magazine / March 3rd, 2022
An unsolved murder in 1991 is being revisited by authorities for possible clues into the infamous art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, reports Bob Ward for Boston 25 News. In the over three decades since thieves made off with treasured artworks valued then at $500 million, ...
Dutch State Moves to Acquire Rembrandt Masterpiece from Rothschild Family
ArtfixDaily / December 8th, 2021
The Netherlands allocates nearly $200 million to acquire an important Rembrandt self-portrait The Dutch State announced on Wednesday its intention to purchase Rembrandt's The Standard Bearer (1636) for the national collection, with the support of the Rembrandt Association and the ...
Rijksmuseum to Stage the Largest Vermeer Exhibition Ever
ArtfixDaily / December 5th, 2021
In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, will dedicate a retrospective exhibition to the 17th-century master Johannes Vermeer for the first time in its history. With loans from all over the world, this promises to be the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. The ...
$30 Find at Estate Sale May Be Dürer Sketch Worth $50 Million
Smithsonian Magazine / November 23rd, 2021
A Massachusetts man who picked up a yellowed drawing for $30 at an estate sale in 2016 may have found an unknown work by a master. The unframed work on linen, monogrammed 'A.D.', was picked up for its fine quality by the man, who prefers to remain anonymous. Years later, experts contend it is a ...
Italian Women Artists Celebrated in Groundbreaking Exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Travels to Detroit Institute of Arts
ArtfixDaily / November 8th, 2021
A collaboration between the Wadsworth Atheneum and the Detroit Institute of Arts (Dia), By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800, is on view now to January 9, 2022, at the Wadsworth, and travels to the Dia, February 6 – May, 29 2022. An exhibition solely ...
Fine Arts Paris Returns to Carrousel du Louvre and Online
ArtfixDaily / October 26th, 2021
Fine Arts Paris – the Paris-based specialist art fair dedicated to the fine arts from Antiquity to modern times – returns for a fifth edition in its emblematic venue, the Carrousel du Louvre, November 6-11. The premier destination for fine arts in Paris, the fair will once more bring together the ...
Innovating From Antiquities, Rubens Masterfully Took Inspiration From a Wealth of Sources
ArtfixDaily / October 20th, 2021
Paintings and drawings by Rubens reunite with antiquities that inspired them The Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens’s (1577-1640) passion for the classical past shaped his personal values and provided him with powerful artistic inspiration. Rubens: Picturing Antiquity at the Getty Villa Museum ...
First Major U.S. Exhibition of Holbein the Younger Brings 16th Century In-Crowd to L.A. and N.Y.
ArtfixDaily / October 13th, 2021
In the early 1500s, if you wanted to impress people with your good looks and accomplishments, a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger was a sure way to astonish them. In early 16th-century Basel, Switzerland, and Tudor England, Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/98–1543) created captivating ...
5 Highlights Coming Up at TEFAF Online This September
ArtfixDaily / August 8th, 2021
The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF), has revealed a special preview of works that will appear at the second iteration of TEFAF Online, running September 9-13, 2021 with an invitation-only preview on September 8, 2021. This “First Look” provides a glimpse into the quality, breadth and depth ...
'Rembrandt’s Orient' Conveys More Than a Fascination
ArtfixDaily / May 16th, 2021
Ideas of escapism, cultural appropriation and historical issues may weave through viewers' minds with the current exhibition Rembrandt’s Orient: West Meets East in Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century which has been extended to July 18, 2021, at the Museum Barberini, in Potsdam, Germany. It was ...
Rarely Shown In the U.S., Masterworks from the Bemberg Foundation Go On View at San Diego Museum of Art This Summer, Along With Ana de Alvear's Photorealistic Drawings
ArtfixDaily / May 12th, 2021
The San Diego Museum of Art plans to open to two summer exhibitions, Cranach to Canaletto: Masterpieces from the Bemberg Foundation and Everything You See Could Be A Lie: Photorealistic Drawings by Ana de Alvear. From Old Master paintings to contemporary, hyper-realistic ...
Bill and Melinda Gates Are Splitting Up. Now What About Their Art Collection?
ArtfixDaily / May 3rd, 2021
Bill and Melinda Gates are ending their marriage after 27 years, the couple announced via Twitter on Monday. Noting that "..we no longer believe that we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives," their statement says. They have 3 adult children. The pair will continue to ...
Salvator Mundi Gets the Spotlight in Two Films
ArtfixDaily / April 8th, 2021
Since the Salvator Mundi sold at a Christie's auction for $450M in 2017, setting a world record price for any artwork, intrigue has followed. Restored after its rediscovery in 2005 and then sold as a rare work by Leonardo da Vinci, the painting of Christ as Savior of the World continues ...
Dutch Police Nab Suspect in Van Gogh, Hals Art Thefts
CNN / April 6th, 2021
Police in the Netherlands said Tuesday that a 58-year-old man from Baarn was arrested at his home on suspicion of stealing two paintings from art museums. The works by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals have not been recovered. Van Gogh's “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884,″ was ...
'This Is a Robbery': Netflix Releases New Docuseries On The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
wbur / April 5th, 2021
"...the Gardner heist story finds people unwittingly rooting for criminals, or art, or perhaps both." - wbur "...it could be that a bombshell is forthcoming." - Daily Beast An unsolved mystery for over 30 years, the brazen art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum still baffles ...
Getty Museum Acquires Recently Rediscovered Painting by Artemisia Gentileschi
ArtfixDaily / March 30th, 2021
The J. Paul Getty Museum has announced the acquisition of a major work by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c.1654), the most celebrated woman painter of 17th-century Italy. Recently rediscovered after having been in private collections for centuries, the painting represents the artist at the height ...
A Record-Breaking $4.75 Million Carl Moll Painting Tops Freeman's Best-Ever Fine Art Sale
ArtfixDaily / February 24th, 2021
Philadelphia-based Freeman’s announced the results of its February 23 European Art & Old Masters auction,which realized over $6.4M—the best Fine Art sale total that Freeman’s has ever recorded. With spirited bidding throughout the sale from bidders both online and on the telephone, the 67-lot ...
Botticelli 'Young Man' Portrait Realizes $92.2 Million At Sotheby's Auction
New York Times / January 28th, 2021
A rare portrait by Florentine Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli brought $92.2 million at a livestreamed Sotheby's sale on Thursday morning. The price is the highest at auction for an Old Master work since Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" fetched $450.3 million in 2017. It is also the ...
Book Release: The Woman Who Stole Vermeer
ArtfixDaily / November 5th, 2020
Born wealthy, the Oxford-educated Rose Dugdale (b. 1941) turned to crime as she became involved with Irish Republicanism. Her radical ideals led Dugdale to mastermind a major art heist. The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist, a new ...
From Turmoil to Triumph, Baroque Artist Artemisia Gentileschi's Life Story Inspires TV Series
ArtfixDaily / November 1st, 2020
On the heels of a major monographic exhibition exploring the work of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1654) will be a new television series from ViacomCBS studios. The series will begin filming next year following the popular exhibition on the Baroque artist at London's National Gallery (on view ...