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12 art museums in the US, the UK, Canada and the Netherlands including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam and the Courtauld Institute in London have been requested to return 24 drawings by the 16th century German artist Albrecht Dürer after they were dispersed following the Second ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Albrecht Dürer’s monogram
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, based in New York has announced the formation of a $ 50 million (€ 56.1 million) fund to assist the city’s arts organisations affected by the September 2001 terrorist attacks. The fund is aimed at art associations but will not be available to individuals: grants range ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| William Orpen’s Portrait of Andrew W. Mellon |
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The finalists for the $ 50,000 (€ 56,100) Hugo Boss award given every two years to a contemporary artist are Francis Alÿs (Belgium), Olafur Eliasson (Denmark), Hachiya Kazuhiko (Japan), Pierre Huyghe (France), Koo Jeong-a (Korea) and Anri Sala (Albania) ...
(James Goulder)
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ART2002 London Art Fair, which runs from Wednesday the 16th to Sunday 20th of January, will host a unique selling show to raise funds for the Whitechapel Art Gallery. The show, featuring specially commissioned watercolours by over 25 London artists, will be launched at the Charity Preview of ART2002 ...
(James Goulder)
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François Pinault, whose art collection includes 1,000 works by such artists as Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Amedeo Modigliani, Joan Miró, Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney, has picked Japanese architect Tadao Ando to design a new museum in Paris to be called the François Pinault Contemporary Art Foundation...
(James Goulder)
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On Friday the 11th of January, 37 works of art by contemporary artists will be auctioned in the Roof Garden of theatre Jovanelli in Rome to fund “Emergency”, the Italian HQ’d humanitarian association of doctors that brings aid to critical areas such as, today, Afghanistan. The sale, organised in collaboration ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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The 25th of January sees Christie’s Old Master paintings sale, with the top lot being Joseph Mallord William Turner's maritime painting Sheerness as seen from the Nore. Though considered by the British journal “Examiner” in 1808 as the “the finest sea-piece ever painted by a British Artist” ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Turner's Sheerness as seen from the Nore |
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Christie’s, New York offers its sale of Old Master and 19th century drawings on the 23rd of January 2002 at its Rockefeller Plaza premises, with highlights including Bartolomeo Cincani, (called il Montagna) and his The Risen Christ, one of the artist’s best known paintings, with this preparatory work ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Parmigianino, Head of a young man |
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Christie’s, Italy published its annual sales balance for 2001, registering proceeds amounting to over $ 29.5 million (€ 32.8 million) and sale percentages of 75% by lot and 77.5% by value. As far as the sale of paintings are concerned, the Modern and Contemporary Art department closed 2001 with proceeds of $ 6.6 million ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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On January the 24th, 2002 Sotheby’s, New York will offer their auction of Old Master Paintings and with two portraits of St. Peter and St. Thomas by Sir Anthony van Dyck, which are among the most important early works by the artist. Painted at the end of van Dyck’s first Antwerp period, the present ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| St. Peter by Sir Anthony van Dyck
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