Tag: Private Collector

Bowes Museum Reunites Two Important Works for New Display

DURHAM.- The Bowes Museum has brought together two important art and textile pieces which are to be displayed side by side at the museum for the first time. The Adam Jacquard woven textile is a key piece in the Barnard Castle museum’s significant …

Falmouth Acquires Gotch Masterpiece at Record Price

CORNWALL.- Falmouth Art Gallery has acquired a masterpiece by Thomas Cooper Gotch, an artist with strong connections to the town. Innocence is an imaginative watercolour depicting the artist’s only child, Phylis, with a dragon. The Art Fund has gi…

‘Conan’ Painting by Late Artist Frank Frazetta Goes for $1.5 Million

PHILADELPHIA (AP).- A 1971 painting by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta has sold for $1.5 million, two months after the Pennsylvania artist’s death. Frazetta’s managers said this week that a private collector bought “Conan the Destroyer” from a family t…

Important Roman Sculpture Joins Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

NEW YORK, NY.- An ancient Roman group statue of great importance and beauty—a depiction of the Three Graces of Greek mythology—has been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by Thomas P. Campbell, the Museum’s Dir…

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