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In an interview with San Francisco Chronicle ex-San Francisco Museum of Modern Art director David Ross admitted he was giving up his job, which carried an annual salary of $ 400,000 (€ 440,028), to go and make money in the private sector. "I have to think about myself a bit," he said, ...
(James Goulder)
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Sotheby’s third Italian sale, to take place in London on Monday, October 22nd 2001 at 7pm, will have a particular focus on Arte Povera artists, as well as the more established names of Giorgio Morandi, Gino Severini, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. Alighiero Boetti’s embroidered tapestry Mappa del Mondo ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Alighiero Boetti, Mappa del Mondo |
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The death of the prominent Aboriginal artist Turkey Tolson, on August 6th , has been problematic for Christie's, Australia but provided publicity for the auction house which may boost the sale price of the work. Christie's had arranged to auction Straightening Spears in Sydney on the 26th ...
(James Goulder)
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Three days after Marc Chagall's Study for Over Vitebsk was found to be missing from the Jewish Museum in New York, a letter postmarked the Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City, arrived at the museum with a "peace for painting" demand. The letter stated that ...
(James Goulder)
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Art aficionados Marvin Friedman and James Corcoran claim in papers filed in Manhattan state Supreme Court that Richard Serra convinced them to return a work of his in 1989 so he could fix it - and he still hasn't returned it. Corcoran and Friedman, who buy and sell art for a living, ...
(James Goulder)
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The legal team representing Alfred A. Taubman, Sotheby's chief shareholder and former chairman, yesterday outlined central elements of the defense he is expected to make against charges that he colluded with a counterpart at Christie's to fix commission rates governing tens of thousands of transactions ...
(James Goulder)
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A painting acquired by the Prado, Spain’s national gallery, has become the subject of vigorous debate among art historians. Sotheby’s is certain the painting Raising of Lazarus is by Jusepe de Ribera, whereas Professor Alfonso Pérez Sanchéz, ex-director of the Prado, rejects the attribution ...
(James Goulder)
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| The Raising of Lazarus allegedly by Jusepe de Ribera |
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BBC news reported on the 9th August that thieves in Madrid have stolen more than 20 paintings from the house of Spain’s richest businesswoman, Esther Koplowitz. Among the works stolen are The Donkey's Fall and The Swing, by Spanish artist Francisco Goya, Eragny landscape by Camille Pissarro ...
(Andrew Moore)
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David Ross, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for only three years, abruptly resigned on the 16th August. A statement from the museum said that Ross' "priorities diverge from those of the museum." His resignation is effective immediately. Ross, 51, came to SFMOMA ...
(James Goulder)
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Christie's auction of Contemporary Art is to be held in Sydney at the Bryon Kennedy Centre, Fox Studios on 26 August and is the biggest yet staged by the company in Australia. Likely to realize total sales of between $ 566,500-772,500 (€ 647,750-883,300) the burgeoning interest in ...
(James Goulder)
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| Tracey Moffatt, Scarred for life, 1994 |
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