NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, announced today worldwide sales of £1.71 billion ($2.57 billion) for the first six months of 2010, up 46% by £ on last year’s figure of £1.2 billion ($1.8 billion) for the s…
Yevtushenko Gives House, Art to Russia
By: Khristina Narizhnaya, Associated Press Writer
PEREDELKINO (AP).- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia’s most renowned living poet, has given his house along with an extensive art collection to the state as a museum. The two-story museum in the writer’s colo…
Comprehensive Survey of Surrealist Art Opens at the Dean Gallery
EDINBURGH.-
A comprehensive survey of Surrealist
art, which brings together masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte,
Pablo
Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró, is the major summer
exhibition at the
Dean Gallery in 2010. Anoth…
Comprehensive Survey of Surrealist Art Opens at the Dean Gallery
EDINBURGH.- A comprehensive survey of Surrealist art, which brings together masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró, is the major summer exhibition at the Dean Gallery in 2010. Another World, wh…
Personal Scenes & Episodes of Pablo Picasso’s Life Explored in Berlin
BERLIN.- Pablo Picasso was the 20th
centuryʼs most
important artist. Picassoʼs many-faceted personality is reflected in the
wide
array of creative paths he chose — his forms, colors, and the materials
he
used. The Picasso Story invites …
Personal Scenes and Episodes of Pablo Picasso’s Life Explored in Berlin
BERLIN.- Pablo Picasso was the 20th centuryʼs most important artist. Picassoʼs many-faceted personality is reflected in the wide array of creative paths he chose — his forms, colors, and the materials he used. The Picasso Story invites you t…
British Art Market Warns Against Proposed European Union Levy
LONDON
(REUTERS).- British auction houses fear that an EU levy on works of
art by
the likes of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, due to be introduced in
2012,
could undermine their position as world leaders in the field. The
British
…
Philadelphia Museum of Art opens Major Exhibition "Cézanne & Beyond"
PHILADELPHIA, PA – In 1907, the French painter Paul Cézanne’s posthumous retrospective astonished younger artists, accelerating the experimentation of European modernism. Cézanne (1839-1906) became for Henri Matisse “a benevolent god of pain…
British Art Market Warns Against European Union Levy
LONDON (REUTERS).- British auction houses fear that an EU levy on works of art by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, due to be introduced in 2012, could undermine their position as world leaders in the field. The British government has a tem…
Lost Ambroise Vollard Art Collection Sells for 3.5 Million Pounds at Sotheby’s in Paris
PARIS (AP).- The stash was hidden away in a Paris bank vault at the start of World War II and forgotten for decades. On Tuesday, the long-lost treasure trove of Renoirs, Cezannes, Degas, Gauguins and Picassos brought in €3.5 million ($4.3 million)…