Category : Weekly Roundup
In case you missed it, here’s what made headlines in the art world this week: Global art sales hit record $54 billion Global art sales hit a record in 2014 as collectors drove up prices for trophy works by modern, postwar, and contemporary artists. Sales of art and antiques totatled 51.2 billion euros ($54.1 billion),
In case you missed it, here’s what made headlines in the art world this week: 15 pieces of art snatched from Fontainebleau French investigators are searching for searching for 15 gold and bronze artworks stolen from the Château de Fontainebleau in an early morning break-in on Sunday. The target was a crown that once belonged
In case you missed it, here’s what made headlines in the art world this week: Stolen Picasso work is seized in Newark A Picasso painting missing from Paris for more than a decade resurfaced in the United States, where it had been shipped under false pretenses as a $37 holiday-themed “art craft.” The 1911 painting,
In case you missed it, here’s what made headlines in the art world this week: Jackson Pollock masterpiece reveals drip paintings’ secret Alchemy, a large scale painting that Jackson Pollock painted in 1947, has returned to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice after going through an extensive conservation. An in-depth study of the painting, whose
Record-breaking sales of Impressionist and Modern art took London auction houses by storm this past week. In case you missed it, here’s what made headlines: Paul Gauguin painting sells for record $300 million A colorful painting of two Tahitian women by Paul Gauguin has been sold from a Swiss private collection for close to $300
In case you missed it, here’s what made headlines in the art world this week: ‘Lost’ Constable sells at auction for $5.2 million A lost painting sold last year for $5,212 as the work a . John Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral From the Meadows, which was purchased for just $5,212 in 2013 at Christie’s after it
In case you missed it, here’s what made headlines in the art world this week: Picasso, Miró, and Matisse forgery ring busted Operación Mirones (Operation Voyeurs), a Spanish Civil Guard investigation that began in July of last year, has resulted in the arrest of three people in Zaragoza and Tarragona accused for trying to sell
In case you missed it, here’s what made headlines in the art world this week: Museum of Fine Arts Houston unveils $450 million redevelopment plan The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has announced a $450 million redevelopment plan designed by Steven Holl Architects. The project includes a new 164,000-square-foot building for 20th- and 21st-century art;
In case you missed it, here’s what made headlines in the art world this week: Sotheby’s offers £20-30 million Monet in London Sotheby’s forthcoming London Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on February 3rd will be led by an exceptionally rare and important view of Venice by Claude Monet, Le Grand Canal (1908), estimated at
In case you missed it, here’s what made headlines in the art world this week Peter Lik sells most expensive photograph of all time The world’s most expensive photograph has sold for $6.5 million to a private collector. The photograpb, Phantom was taken by fine art photographer Peter Lik, and was joined by sales of
