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On the 4 th of September, the German doctor and art collector, 79 year old Gustav Rau, signed a document in which he promised to donate part of his collection to UNICEF. Born in Stuttgart in 1922, Gustav Rau spent most of his life as a doctor in Africa. He founded a hospital in Zaire and launched ...
(James Goulder)
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On the 5th of September, Bonhams, London held their Marine sale with the prints and paintings section making a sale total of 90%, although prices were kept low with the majority of works selling from £ 1,450-4,530 (€ 1,635-4,900). Higher priced works which did sell, sold at low end or on reserve with ...
(Andrew Moore)
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In November 1999, with support from the Mayor of Denver, Wellington Webb, the citizens of the city and county of Denver voted in support of a $ 62,500,000 (€ 68,132,700) bond initiative to expand the Denver Art Museum. In addition to the public's vote of confidence for expansion, the Denver Art Museum Board of Trustees ...
(James Goulder)
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Sothebys.com offers on-line purchases in a sale of French artists from September the 18th to October the 9th, 2001, including Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Suzanne Eisendieck, Moise Kisling, Ossip Zadkine and Mela Muter. Highlighting of the sale include Jankel Adler’s Still Life with Pears, an oil on masonite ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Jankel Adler, Still Life with Pears |
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The Tate has announced that the first corporate sponsor of its new website will be British Telecom. The Tate will only say that BT has provided "considerably more" than $ 144,700 (€ 161,000) to develop the Tate site, which already contains over 14,000 images from Tate holdings online. As for the new partnership ...
(James Goulder)
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According to a new study by a Swiss governmental body, the Independent Commission of Experts, "Switzerland was a trade centre for looted assets from Nazi Germany and the occupied territories". In addition, the report adds that Galerie Fischer of Lucerne, the country’s largest auction house in the 1940’s ...
(Andrew Moore)
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The Church of England is planning to sell off a series of 12 paintings depicting Jacob and his sons by the 17th century Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbaran. The pictures have been held for nearly 250 years at the Bishop of Durham’s residence at Auckland Castle and have a market value of around $ 10 million ...
(Andrew Moore)
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Robert Gemmell Hutchison’s oil painting, The Pet Rabbit, sold for $ 53,190 (€ 58,670) against an estimate of $ 14,490-21,740 (€ 15,990-23,900) at Phillips' Edinburgh Scottish sale on the 25th August and became the highest seller of the day. Dr Chris Brickley, head of the picture department at Phillips ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Robert Gemmell Hutchison, The Pet Rabbit |
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With the French art market now open to international auction competition after the groundbreaking sale with Parisian auctioneers Poulain-Le Fur, in conjunction with Sotheby’s in June 2001 (sale of the collection of Italian antiquarians Luigi and Nera Anton Laura), new legislation ...
(Andrew Moore)
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Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele’s are the highlights of the Sotheby’s German and Austrian expressionist sale to be held in London on the 10th of October. Prices range up to $ 2.17 milllion (€ 2.3 million) for Klimt’s Lady in an Armchair and the works will be shown at Sotheby’s offices ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Gustav Klimt, Lady in an Armchair |
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