LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company announces the highlights of the forthcoming London Photographs sale on Thursday May 19, 2011. The London photographs department, a leader in the European market, will offer a full range of exciting works from diverse…
The BAT Artventure Collection Part Two Realizes $ 4,198,489 at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- The sale of the world-renowned BAT ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Part Two, realized a total of €2,941,725 / £2,582,732/ $4,198,489, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €1 mill…
The BAT Artventure Collection Part Two Realises $ 4,198,489 at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- The sale of the world-renowned BAT ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Part Two, realised a total of €2,941,725 / £2,582,732/ $4,198,489, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €1 m…
The BAT Artventure Collection Part Two Realises $ 4,198,489 at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- The sale of the world-renowned BAT ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Part Two, realised a total of €2,941,725 / £2,582,732/ $4,198,489, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €1 m…
Getty Museum to Return Looted Painting Previously Owned by Jacques Goudstikker
LOS ANGELES (AP).- The J. Paul Getty Museum has agreed to return a 370-year-old painting that once belonged to an art dealer who fled Holland when the Nazis invaded in 1940. Jacques Goudstikker was the Netherlands’ biggest art dealer in the 1930s. He …
Andy Warhol’s Portrait of Liz Taylor to Be Projected on Building During Exhibition
SOUTHAMPTON.- Southampton is getting ready to paint the town this coming Sunday (27 March), when it opens a major exhibition by Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987), one of the giants of 20th century art. Nearly 200 works, including paintings, prints, poster…
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Presents Jeff Koons: Artist Rooms Exhibition
EDINBURGH.- One of the most highly acclaimed and internationally successful artists working today is the focus of a new display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art this spring. ARTIST ROOMS: Jeff Koons brings together a selection of 18 majo…
B.B. King Museum Announces New Executive Director
INDIANOLA, MISSISSIPPI.- Dion Brown is the new Executive Director of the B.B. King Museum & Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Mississippi. He comes to the job from Wichita, Kansas where he has been Chief Operating Officer at Exploration Place, a …
Major Picasso Portrait of His Mistress and Muse to Lead Sotheby’s Sale in February
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…
Major Picasso Portrait of his Mistress and Muse to Lead Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Sale
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…