MOSCOW (REUTERS).- Europe’s largest antiques association catered for the Russian elite on their home turf for the first time this week, banking on the growing sophistication of the country’s super-rich to rapidly increase demand. The London-based LAPAD…
Paris Louvre Asks Public for Help to Buy Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Painting "The Three Graces"
PARIS (REUTERS).- France’s Louvre museum is making an unprecedented appeal to the general public to help it raise the cash to buy a 16th century painting deemed a national treasure by art experts. The Louvre has already scraped together 3 million euro…
Paris Louvre Asks Public for Help to Buy Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Painting "The Three Graces"
PARIS (REUTERS).- France’s Louvre museum is making an unprecedented appeal to the general public to help it raise the cash to buy a 16th century painting deemed a national treasure by art experts. The Louvre has already scraped together 3 million euro…
LA Unveils $578M School, Costliest in the Nation, Fine Art Murals Included
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Next month’s opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassi…
Christie’s Offers a Monet Water-Lily Painting Worth an Estimated $44-59 Million
LONDON
(REUTERS).- Auction house Christie’s is
offering a Monet water-lily painting
worth an estimated 30 to 40 million pounds ($44-59 million) this month
in what
it expects to be the biggest sale it has ever mounted in London. With
th…