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The French artist Christo has won legal rights to the ownership of the photographic images of the “wrapped” Reichstag building in Berlin, which he covered in metallic silver fabric in 1995. The artist took legal action against a photographic agency that wanted to sell postcards featuring his work of art showing ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Cristo, Wrapped Reichstag |
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Christie's sale of Impressionist and Modern paintings is to be held in London on the 4th of February with important works by Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Renoir, and Vlaminck. The top lot is the French Impressionist Claude Monet's Prairie de Limetz estimated at $ 2.8-3.2 million (€ 3.2-4.8 million) showing a row of ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Vlaminck, La Seine à Chatou |
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The private collection of the widely admired British art critic David Sylvester, who passed away at the age of 76 last June, will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London on the 26th of February. Modern highlights of the sale include charcoal drawings from Willem de Kooning’s most significant series of work, Women ...
(Reena Jana)
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| Willem de Kooning ,Untitled (Woman) |
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An auction of Old Master drawings from the Martin Bodmer Foundation in Switzerland (a Zurich library founded in 1971) took place at Christie's New York on the 23rd of January, with the sale totalling almost $ 1.8 million (€ 2.08 million) and with 36 of 46 lots finding buyers. The top lot was Watteau's Head of a Man ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Baron Gerard, Portrait of Catherine Worlee |
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The French auction house Etude Tajan registered a positive annual turnover for 2001 with a balance of € 95.4 million ($ 85.1 million) and an increase of 12.34 % in comparison to 2000. As concerns the sale of works of art, the old master paintings department totalled € 1.4 million ($ 1.3 million), with the major ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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Although not exhilarating, the annual balance of Finarte auction house for 2001 is nonetheless positive (+3% on 2000). The comparison between the sale results of 2001 and those of the previous year emphasises the strong increase registered in the old master paintings and drawings department ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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The former chairman of Sotheby's, A. Alfred Taubman, claims that during the antitrust trial held in November 2001 in New York against the auction house, jurors unfairly focused on his 12 meetings with Sir Anthony Tennant, the former head of Christie's. Taubman was convicted in December of fixing seller's ...
(Reena Jana)
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| A. Alfred Taubman claims jury convicted him of antitrust conspiracy
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Bonhams was the first of the big auction houses to hold an auction this year with their sale of Marine paintings on the 16th of January. The sale was held at their new prestige offices at New Bond street, London with a 400 lot Marine auction, divided into two sections. The first section comprised Marine ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Robert Salmon’s A Regatta off New Brighton in the River Mersey |
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Arte Fiera, the most awaited modern and contemporary art fair in Italy, will run in Bologna from the 24th to the 28th of January under the motto of investing in culture. In its twenty sixth edition, this year the Bolognese event will host 250 galleries (35 from abroad), distributed in the four pavilions ...
(Elena Balzani)
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Images of Campbell's Soup Can and Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol have been thrown up on billboards all across London (from the 17th of January, 2002) as part of a new British television arts series on the life and work of this Pop Art Icon. Channel 4 begins a three-part series entitled 'Andy Warhol ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| The art of TV dinners: Andy Warhol’s Campbell's Soup Can |
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