Andre Derain’s landscape from the Ambroise Vollard collection, which sold for a record £16.5 million After the buzz of expectation created by the London salerooms, they did produce a record series of Impressionist and Modern art auctions last week, but only just. Mid-way through the fifth and final session, the sales total crept past the [...]
May 20th, 2010 / art incident
A lone thief broke into a Paris museum last night and stole five paintings worth €500m (£430m) including masterpieces by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, French police said today. A police spokesman said works by Picasso, Matisse, George Braque, Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger were reported missing early this morning from the Paris Museum of [...]
April 03rd, 2010 / auctions
Henri Matisse, “Nu au coussin bleu”, 1924. Estimate: $20-30 million. NEW YORK (REUTERS).- One of the most valuable private art collections ever offered at auction, led by an $80 million Picasso, will be sold in May in a sign that the art market might soon flirt with the record levels seen before the financial crisis [...]
February 01st, 2010 / auctions
Markets around the world are looking to China to buoy their financial prospects. So are art auction houses. After a dismal year, Sotheby’s and Christie’s International PLC are set to begin a major round of art auctions in London on Tuesday, and experts say Chinese collectors may emerge as the latest power players to bid [...]
January 21st, 2010 / auctions, exhibition
A Christie’s employee looks at a 1963 painting entitled “Tete de femme (Jacqueline)” by Pablo Picasso on display at the auction house in London, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. The painting is to be auction at ‘Impressionist and Modern Art’ sale on Feb. 2 with an estimated price of 3 to 4 million pounds (US$4.9 to [...]
April 09th, 2009 / exhibition
Modern masterworks by celebrated artists including Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse will be featured in an upcoming University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA)-organized exhibition at the Figge Art Museum, 225 West Second St. in downtown Davenport, IA. Jackson Pollock, “Mural,” 1943, oil on canvas, 8′ 1 1/4″ x 19′ 10″. The exhibition, [...]
February 02nd, 2009 / exhibition
Matisse. People, Masks, Models is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on Henri Matisse’s portraits. Matisse (1869 – 1954) not only created colorful interior scenes and still life paintings but also very expressive portraits. He regarded portraits as his most important artistic challenge. For Matisse, a “true” likeness was not achieved merely by capturing a [...]
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