A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, featuring Superman’s debut, is shown. The record price for a comic book, already broken twice this year, has been shattered again. A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1 sold Monday for $1.5 million on the auction Web site ComicConnect.com. The [...]
The 1930 painting ‘Portrait in the Garden’ by Paul Klee, is valued at $100,000. A painting by Swiss artist Paul Klee that was stolen from a New York gallery in 1989 been recovered after a Montreal gallery owner became suspicious and turned it over to U.S. authorities. Robert Landau turned the 1930 painting, “Portrait in [...]
At times using over 50,000 nails, this highly skilled and multifaceted artist has been banging his ideas onto large white wooden panels. LONDON.- Having turned his hand to craftsmanship, these days you’re more likely to find ex-businessman Marcus Levine ‘nailing it’ in the art world rather than the boardroom. This Yorkshire-born sculptor, and unwitting specialist [...]
Lawrence B. Salander left court after his plea Thursday. A once-prominent art dealer pleaded guilty on Thursday to a $120 million fraud scheme, admitting he sold paintings he did not own and at least once sold fractional shares of a painting that added up to more than 100 percent. “I am deeply ashamed and sorry [...]
Christian Kobke “View of Dosseringen near the Sortedam Lake Looking towards Norrebro” When Queen Margrethe II of Denmark opens the National Gallery’s luminous survey of the art of Christen Købke today, she will take her photo call in front of View of Dosseringen near the Sortedam Lake Looking towards Norrebro. This was inevitable: Købke is [...]
Henri Matisse, “Nu au coussin bleu”, 1924. Estimate: $20-30 million. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd., 2010. Christie’s announced the sale of one of the greatest private American collections of Modern Art to come to auction: The Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody. Remarkable for its extraordinary depth and quality, the collection boasts a wealth of master [...]
Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995). Photograph: Ai Weiwei The cavernous space of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall has been dwarfed by a massive spider, cleaved by a 167-metre crack and baked by an artificial sun. Now, the gallery has announced, the space is to be filled by its most politically adventurous commission yet.
