ZURICH.- Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1919), one of the most significant Swiss painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, created two versions of his important composition ‘The Truth,’ both of which are held in the Kunsthaus Zü…
Christie’s Major Two-Week Spring Sales Series Yields $557 Million and New World Records
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s reports its two-week sales series devoted to important Impressionist, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art totaled $556,944,875 (£338,398,139/€384,154,653) and yielded average sell-through rates of 87% by lot and 90% by…
Ancestors of the Lake: Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay, New Guinea
HOUSTON, TX.- European navigators began traveling to coastal areas of New Guinea in the sixteenth century, but it was not until 1858 that the Dutch Etna Expedition reached Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani (in the present-day Indonesian province of Papua, …
Art Basel Buys Hong Kong International Art Fair
BASEL.- Art Basel announced that MCH Swiss Exhibition (Basel) Ltd. – a MCH Group company, and the organizer of Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach – has signed a purchase agreement with Asian Art Fairs Ltd, the owners of ART HK – Hong Kong Int…
Braginsky Collection of Rare Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts Premieres at Israel Museum
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, will present one of the most important private collections of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts and printed books in the exhibition A Journey through Jewish Worlds: Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of Hebr…
Swiss-Based Gallery, Artvera’s Gallery, Helps Crack Artwork Forgery Ring in Germany
GENEVA.- The largest scandal involving an artwork forgery ring in Germany just broke and has made front-page news in German media for the past few weeks. Forgers belonging to the same family managed to sell over 20 forged artworks from the so-called &#…
Swiss-Based Gallery, Artvera’s Gallery, Helps Crack Artwork Forgery Ring in Germany
GENEVA.- The largest scandal involving an artwork forgery ring in Germany just broke and has made front-page news in German media for the past few weeks. Forgers belonging to the same family managed to sell over 20 forged artworks from the so-called &#…
Swiss-Based Gallery Helps Crack Forgery Ring in Germany
GENEVA.- The largest scandal involving an artwork forgery ring in Germany just broke and has made front-page news in German media for the past few weeks. Forgers belonging to the same family managed to sell over 20 forged artworks from the so-called &#…
Memories of Yorkshire on Walls of James Mason’s Swiss Home for Sale at Bonhams
LONDON.- Yorkshire born James Mason never forgot his roots even in his Swiss retirement. The pictures of Yorkshire he surrounded himself with, by the Yorkshire artist Peter Brook, will be sold by his estate at Bonhams Chester sale on November 16. James…
At Italy’s Barolo Wine Museum, Visitors are Encouraged to Play with Many of the Exhibits
BAROLO, ITALY (REUTERS.- When you walk up the stairs of the imposing medieval castle which now houses a new wine museum in the picturesque Italian town of Barolo, you don’t need to worry about the prospect of monotonous lectures on the history of winem…