HAARLEM.- A green polder countryside with cows, ditches, farmhouses and windmills, boundless vistas, vibrant bulb fields and panoramic river and dune landscapes: every facet of the Dutch landscape can be seen this summer in the exhibition A Portrait of…
19th Century Paintings Sale at Sotheby’s Amsterdam Totals 1.6 Million Euro
AMSTERDAM.- Today’s sale of 19th Century European Painting at Sotheby’s Amsterdam brought €1,586,925 ($2,312,848), within pre-sale expectations (est. €1.5 – 2 million). The auction achieved sell- through rates of 46.9% by lot a…
19th Century Paintings Sale at Sotheby’s Amsterdam Totals 1.6 Million Euro
AMSTERDAM.- Today’s sale of 19th Century European Painting at Sotheby’s Amsterdam brought €1,586,925 ($2,312,848), within pre-sale expectations (est. €1.5 – 2 million). The auction achieved sell- through rates of 46.9% by lot a…
19th Century Paintings Sale at Sotheby’s Amsterdam Totals 1.6 Million Euro
AMSTERDAM.- Today’s sale of 19th Century European Painting at Sotheby’s Amsterdam brought €1,586,925 ($2,312,848), within pre-sale expectations (est. €1.5 – 2 million). The auction achieved sell- through rates of 46.9% by lot a…
Minneapolis Institute of Art Invites Public Vote on Restoration Option
Minneapolis,MN – The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) have invited a public vote (through their ‘Bubbler’ blog) on whether to get rid of an interloper gunman. For years, MIA curators have suspected that the enthusiastic sportsman in the foreground…
Getty Museum to Return Looted Painting Previously Owned by Jacques Goudstikker
LOS ANGELES (AP).- The J. Paul Getty Museum has agreed to return a 370-year-old painting that once belonged to an art dealer who fled Holland when the Nazis invaded in 1940. Jacques Goudstikker was the Netherlands’ biggest art dealer in the 1930s. He …
Major Retrospective of Willem De Kooning Announced at MoMA for September
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning, widely considered to be among the most important and prolific artists of the 20th century, from September 1…
Major Retrospective of Willem De Kooning Announced at MoMA for September
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning, widely considered to be among the most important and prolific artists of the 20th century, from September 1…
Made in Holland: Old Masters from a Private Collection in America at the Mauritshuis
THE HAGUE.- A selection of highlights from the remarkable art collection of Eijk and Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo will be on display at the Mauritshuis in The Hague this autumn. The exhibition Made in Holland: Old Masters from a private collection in…
Most Acclaimed Rembrandt Portrait on Rare Display
AMSTERDAM (AP).- If portraits could talk, Jan Six might have much to say about his family. The merchant, poet and civic leader, painted by Rembrandt in 1654, has watched his descendants make money, marry into Holland’s best families, engage in infideli…