The Jacqueline Matisse collection achieved €40 million at Christie’s
Led -how could it be otherwise- by works by Henri Matisse, the Jaqueline Matisse Monnier collection achieved a total of €40 million ($43.5 million) at Christie’s Paris.
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Dimitris Daskalopoulos to donate 350 works from his collection to four museums
Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, who owns one of the most important private collections of contemporary art in the world, has announced that he will donate a large part of his collection to four museums.
Tate Liverpool announces the Turner Prize 2022 shortlist
Tate Liverpool today announced the shortlist for the prestigious and sometimes controversial Turner Prize: Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin.
Picasso’s portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter as a sea creature to be auctioned at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s has announced the sale of “Femme nue couchée,” one of the portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter painted by Pablo Picasso in 1932, offered with a pre-sale estimate in excess of $60 million.
Michelangelo drawing expected to sell for €30 million at Christie’s
Christie’s has announced the sale of a drawing by Michelangelo, offered with an estimate on request (in the region of €30 million).
Sotheby’s to auction an important abstraction by Philip Guston
Next May, Sotheby’s will offer Philip Guston’s “Nile” (1958), a painting carrying a pre-sale estimate of between $20 million and $30 million, the highest ever assigned to a work by the artist.
From Paris to Sao Paulo, the best art fairs of the week
The first week of April 2022 welcomes a considerable number of international art fairs.
Rembrandt, as active as ever
The Gemäldegalerie has announced that a landscape hitherto attributed to Govert Flinck is actually the work of his master, Rembrandt van Rijn.
Another blockbuster auction for the blockbuster spring season: the Anne H. Bass Collection
Christie’s has announced that next May it will auction 12 works from the Anne Hendricks Bass collection, including paintings by Rothko and Monet, and a sculpture by Degas.
Lights and Shadows · Sotheby’s Orientalist Auction
A brief and subjective review of Sotheby’s Orientalist art auction in London, March 2022, in which -as usual in this kind of auctions- it was not difficult to find excellent works sold for surprisingly low prices.