By Barbara Cornell
SALA BOLOGNESE, ITALY (REUTERS).- When blind sculptor Felice Tagliaferri was forbidden to touch one of Italy’s most famous statues, he decided revenge was best served not just cold but stone cold. Tagliaferri, 41, spent much of two y…
The Football Match by L.S. Lowry is Expected to Realise in Excess of £3.5 Million at Christie’s
LONDON.- Having not been seen in public for almost 20 years, The Football Match, 1949, by Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976) will be offered at auction on 26 May 2011 in Christie’s sale of 20th Century British Art. An exceptionally rare depi…
Akbar Padamsee Masterpiece From 1960 to Lead Sotheby’s Indian Art Sale in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s sale of Indian and South East Asian Art on 25 March 2011 will be led by one of the most important paintings by a modern Indian painter ever to have appeared on the market. Untitled (Reclining Nude) is one of the highlights…
Akbar Padamsee Masterpiece From 1960 to Lead Sotheby’s Indian Art Sale in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s sale of Indian and South East Asian Art on 25 March 2011 will be led by one of the most important paintings by a modern Indian painter ever to have appeared on the market. Untitled (Reclining Nude) is one of the highlights…
"The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt Named Most Romantic Oil Painting for Valentine’s Day 2011
WICHITA, KAN.- The popular online art gallery overstockArt.com, published today its official Top 10 list of most romantic oil paintings for Valentine’s Day 2011. Topping the chart is Gustav Klimt’s sensual masterpiece “The Kiss.” Ot…
Signed Martin Johnson Heade Painting Stagnated By Troubled and Villainous Art World
JACKSONVILLE, FL.- Retired Army Senior Sergeant, Victor Hazon Hall says that he has found a signed painting worth millions of dollars at a local flea market. He blames corruption within the art world for the fact that art galleries familiar with the w…
Maria Altmann, Who Recovered Gustav Klimt Paintings Looted from Her Family, Dies
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Maria Altmann, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who successfully fought to recover Gustav Klimt paintings looted from her Jewish family, has died. She was 94. Altmann died Monday at her home in the Cheviot Hills area of Los Ange…
Signed Martin Johnson Heade Multi-Million Dollar Painting Stagnated By Troubled and Villainous Art World
JACKSONVILLE, FL.- Retired Army Senior Sergeant, Victor Hazon Hall says that he has found a signed painting worth millions of dollars at a local flea market. He blames corruption within the art world for the fact that art galleries familiar with the w…
Gauguin Masterpiece Leads Christie’s Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in London
LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Auction and the sale of The Art of the Surreal will take place on 9 February 2011 at 7pm with a pre-sale estimate of £73,880,000 to £109,060,000 (corresponding estimate in 2010: £56.5 million to £80…
Velázquez Loan Marks Second Month of Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Bicentenary
LONDON.- Every month during Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Bicentenary celebration year a spectacular masterpiece will hang on the end wall of the Gallery’s enfilade. February sees the arrival of El bufón Don Sebastián de Morra by Diego Rodrigue…