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…
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…
Versace’s Return Painting Stolen from a London Home in 1979 to Original Owners
LONDON (REUTERS).- A painting stolen from a London home in 1979 and which ended up in the collection of late Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace has been returned to its original owners, Britain’s Art Loss Register said on Monday. The work by 18th …
Versace’s Return Painting Stolen from a London Home in 1979 to Original Owners
LONDON (REUTERS).- A painting stolen from a London home in 1979 and which ended up in the collection of late Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace has been returned to its original owners, Britain’s Art Loss Register said on Monday. The work by 18th …
Colorado Goodwill Auctions Purported Dali Print
GRAND JUNCTION (AP).- A Colorado Goodwill store is auctioning off a purported lithograph of a Salvador Dali work that it received from a mystery donor. But the Grand Junction shop says it doesn’t plan to verify the work’s authenticity. A customer at …
FBI Seizes a Forgery of Andrew Wyeth’s Painting "Snow Birds" from an Auction House
NEW YORK, NY.- David C Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today the seizure of a fraudulent Andrew Wyeth painting from a New York auction house, and the seizure of Mesopotamian antiquities from a California antiquiti…
U.S. Court of Appeals Confirms Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is Rightful Owner of Kokoschka Painting
BOSTON, MA.- Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued its decision in the case determining ownership of Oskar Kokoschka’s painting Two Nudes (Lovers) (painted about 1913). The decision affirmed United States Dist…
J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires Turner Masterpiece at Sotheby’s for a Record $45.10 Million
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that it made a successful bid at auction on J.M.W Turner’s masterpiece painting Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino. The auction took place at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday, July 7. One of the great…
Exhibition of Photographs by Bill Armstrong at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery presents Renaissance, an exhibition of photography by Bill Armstrong on view from July 1 through August 28, 2010. Working mostly from reproductions of Renaissance drawings featuring the human figure in differ…