This year, the art market saw a return to form, with sellers regaining confidence in consigning good works. We survey the top five results in key markets Impressionist & Modern Vincent van Gogh, Laboureur dans un champ (1889), $81.3m (£62.1m), Christie’s New York, 13 November Fernand Léger, Contraste de forms (1913), $70m (£53.5m), Christie’s New […]
Newly discovered Artemisia Gentileschi painting sells for €2.4m at auction in Paris
A previously unknown Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine by the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi sold at Drouot in Paris on 19 December for an artist record of €2,360,600 (€1.850m at the hammer, against an estimate of €300,000-€400,000). The work, which dates from the same period (1614-16) as another Saint Catherine picture by the artist held […]
Here’s the Exhibitor List for Art Brussels 2018
Art Brussels has revealed the exhibitor list for its 2018 fair. For the fair’s 50th-anniversary edition, which will run April 20-22, Art Brussels will include 146 galleries from 33 countries, with nearly a quarter of the exhibitors showing for the first time. Newcomers and galleries returning to the fair include the Belgian outfits Mendes Wood […]
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The Musée d’Orsay shows Major Exhibition of Works by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Paris.- The Musée d’Orsay is currently showing “Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931). A Passion for Finland”, on view through May 6th. Although recognised as one of the most emblematic artists of the Finnish genius at the turn of the 19th and 20th ce…
First major monographic exhibition in Paris devoted to Edgar Degas at Musée d’Orsay
PARIS.- The first major monographic exhibition in Paris devoted to Edgar Degas (1834-1917) since the 1988 retrospective at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, “Degas and the Nude” is part of the Musée d’Orsay’s aim to show dev…
Hammer Galleries celebrates its third year exhibiting at The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht
MAASTRICHT.- Hammer Galleries presents a selection of works from their Modern Masters: Paris and Beyond exhibition at TEFAF Maastricht this year. Following the success of their critically acclaimed Renoir exhibition at TEFAF 2011, Hammer’s curren…
Paris Photo 2011: Rendez-vous at the Grand Palais
Paris Photo Program 10–13 November 2011 Grand Palais www.parisphoto.fr
Sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings at Sotheby’s Paris
PARIS.- The final sale of the season at Sotheby’s Paris, devoted to Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings, yielded €7.6m – the highest total for a sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings by Sotheby’s Fr…
Desroches Noblecourt, French Egyptologist, Dies
PARIS (AP).- Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, a pioneering French Egyptologist who prodded Gen. Gamal Abdel Nasser to help salvage Nubia’s vaunted antiquities, has died. She was 97. Desroches Noblecourt died Thursday at a hospital in Epernay, east of P…