Amedeo Modigliani Nu couché (Reclining Nude) Estimate in excess of $100 million Amedeo Modiglianie Nu assis sur un divan (La Belle Romaine) $68.9 million at… Read More »Christie’s to offer Amedeo Modigliani’s ‘Nu couché (Reclining Nude)’
UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova UNESCO deplores loss of scholars of Syrian antiquity UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova deplores the loss of two leading scholars of Syrian… Read More »UNESCO deplores the loss of two leading scholars of Syrian antiquity
Arshile Gorky, Untitled (Cubist Figure), c. 1930gouache and collage on boardNational Gallery of Art, Washington,Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Fund NGA acquires works by Cassatt,… Read More »NGA Washington acquires works by Cassatt, Gorky, and others
Giovanni da Rimini, active 1292 – 1336, ‘Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and other Saints’, 1300 – 05. Oil, tempera and gilding on… Read More »Giovanni da Rimini masterpiece acquired by the National Gallery, London
Joseph Mallord William Turner The High Street, Oxford Ashmolean Museum buys Turner’s ‘High Street, Oxford’ The Ashmolean Museum announced that it has raised the money… Read More »Ashmolean Museum acquires Turner’s ‘The High Street, Oxford’
Édouard Manet ‘Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère’ (first version, 1881) £16.9 /$26.8m / €23.8m (est. £15-20m) at Sotheby’s. Klimt, Malevich lead art auctions in London Sotheby’s… Read More »Klimt, Malevich lead art auctions in London
Édouard Manet ‘Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère’ (first version, 1881) Manet’s first ‘Bar aux Folies-Bergère’ at Sotheby’s On June 24th 2015, Sotheby’s will feature the first… Read More »Sotheby’s to offer the first version of Édouard Manet’s ‘Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère’
John Singer Sargent, Mrs. Cazalet and Children Edward & Victor, 1900–01, Oil oncanvas, 100 x 65 in., Promised gift of Barbra Streisand in honor of… Read More »Barbra Streisand donates painting by Sargent to LACMA
George Caleb Bingham, American (1811 – 1879) The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1846oil on canvas, 96.8 x 123.2 cm (38 1/8 x 48 1/2 in.)National Gallery of… Read More »National Gallery of Art Washington buys George Caleb Bingham’s ‘The Jolly Flatboatmen’
© UNESCO/F. Bandarin – Palmyra UNESCO calls for cessation of hostilities in Palmyra The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has called for an immediate end… Read More »UNESCO Director calls for cessation of hostilities in Palmyra
