LONDON.- Sotheby’s forthcoming Evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, to be held in London on Tuesday, 8th February 2011, will be led by a major painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting Marie-Thérèse Walter, the woman who transformed both his…
Public Debut of the Huntington Library’s Important New Works by Andy Warhol
SAN MARINO, CA.- In October, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced that it would be receiving a gift of important works by Andy Warhol from the estate of Los Angeles gallery director Robert Shapazian, who died earlier…
Public Debut of the Huntington Library’s Important New Works by Andy Warhol
SAN MARINO, CA.- In October, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced that it would be receiving a gift of important works by Andy Warhol from the estate of Los Angeles gallery director Robert Shapazian, who died earlier…
Public Debut of the Huntington’s New Works by Andy Warhol
SAN MARINO, CA.- In October, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced that it would be receiving a gift of important works by Andy Warhol from the estate of Los Angeles gallery director Robert Shapazian, who died earlier…
Italian Researcher Silvano Vinceti Claims He has Found Symbols in ‘Mona Lisa’
ROME (AP).- Forget her smile. An Italian researcher says the key to solving the enigmas of “Mona Lisa'” lies in her eyes. Silvano Vinceti claims he has found the letter “S” in the woman’s left eye, the letter “L” in her right eye, and the number “72”…
Italian Researcher Silvano Vinceti Claims He has Found Symbols in ‘Mona Lisa’
ROME (AP).- Forget her smile. An Italian researcher says the key to solving the enigmas of “Mona Lisa'” lies in her eyes. Silvano Vinceti claims he has found the letter “S” in the woman’s left eye, the letter “L” in her right eye, and the number “72”…
Dennis Hopper’s Bullet-Hole Andy Warhol Sells for $302,500 Today at Christie’s
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- An Andy Warhol portrait of Mao Zedong that actor Dennis Hopper shot two bullets through sold for $302,500 at Christie’s on Tuesday, more than 10 times its high estimate. The 1972 screenprint from Hopper’s art collection is done in …
New Body of Work by Kansas-Born Max Cole at Haines Gallery in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines Gallery presents its eighth exhibition for New York artist Max Cole. Having refined her practice over a period of four decades, Cole has earned a reputation as a premier practitioner of reductive painting with a consistently…
Bumper Year for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ROTTERDAM.- For Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen an extraordinarily successful year has drawn to a close. More than 320,000 people visited the 30-plus presentations that the museum organised in its own building and on location. The museum made exceptional…
Research by Italians Confirms that Raphael’s ‘Madonna dell Granduca’ was Amended
FLORENCE.- An X-ray analysis has shown that the dark background that appears in one of the most famous paintings by Raphael, the Madonna dell Granduca, is not original, but was added by a painter, who is still unknown. It was until the seventeenth cent…