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Previously hidden Salvador Dali paintings go under the hammer
The 14 original watercolour fruit studies were commissioned in 1969 by the publisher Jean-Paul Schneider. Two of Dali’s 14 original watercolour fruit studies. At a glance they seem like familiar 19th-century botanical lit...
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Records fall at Sotheby’s contemporary art auction
Barnett Newman and Onement VI in the artist’s studio, New York, 1961. Photo: Alexander Liberman. Courtesy of the Alexander Liberman Photography Archive, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2000.R.19)© J. Paul Getty Trust...
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Cézanne and Modigliani Push Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Sale to $230 Million
The evening sale totaled $230 million, just shy of its $235 million high estimate. The first of the big spring auctions began Tuesday night at Sotheby’s, where paintings and sculptures by Cézanne, Braque and Léger topped expect...
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Body-Scanner Technology Reveals Male Figure Hidden in Louvre Artwork
“Terahertz” rays unveil a hidden image (red box) of a man’s face under the surface of Trois hommes armés de lances in Paris’ Louvre Museum. The same technology used for airport body-scanning and kitchen ...
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Rembrandt painting in Devon abbey long thought to be pupil’s work is £20m a self-portrait
For three years, visitors to Buckland Abbey in Devon would have barely glanced twice at a portrait of Rembrandt hanging on the walls, believing it to be the work of one of the Dutch master’s pupils. Yet, interest is set t...
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Gilbert & George’s “London Pictures”
The British artists George Passmore (L) and Gilbert Prousch (R) pose in front of their work ‘London Pictures’ at the museum Kueppersmuehle in Duisburg, western Germany, on March 14, 2013. The exhibition runs from Ma...
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Van Dyck painting “found online”
A previously unknown painting by 17th Century master Van Dyck has been identified after being spotted online. Van Dyck’s portrait depicts Olivia Boteler Porter, lady-in-waiting to Charles I’s wife Henrietta Maria. T...
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Much-loved Picasso to leave UK for ever
New overseas owner of ‘Child with a Dove’ is free to take it home as soon as Courtauld show ends Picasso “Child with a Dove” One of the most recognised and loved pictures in all modern art is likely to d...
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Looking East: Rubens’s Encounter with Asia
Man in Korean Costume, about 1617, Peter Paul Rubens. The J. Paul Getty Museum Peter Paul Rubens’s Man in Korean Costume has been considered noteworthy since its creation in the early 1600s. This large-scale drawing, now ...
