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Previously hidden Salvador Dali paintings go under the hammer

artguru — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:47:09 +0000

The 14 original watercolour fruit studies were commissioned in 1969 by the publisher Jean-Paul Schneider. Two of Dali’s 14 original watercolour fruit studies. At a glance they seem like familiar 19th-century botanical lithographs, the type you see on endless hotel room walls. But look closer and the plum appears to be running away, the raspberries [...]

Records fall at Sotheby’s contemporary art auction

artguru — Wed, 15 May 2013 06:09:34 +0000

Barnett Newman and Onement VI in the artist’s studio, New York, 1961. Photo: Alexander Liberman. Courtesy of the Alexander Liberman Photography Archive, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2000.R.19)© J. Paul Getty Trust© 2013 Barnett Newman Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. A painting by Barnett Newman that Sotheby’s described as an icon [...]

Cézanne and Modigliani Push Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Sale to $230 Million

artguru — Wed, 08 May 2013 08:05:42 +0000

The evening sale totaled $230 million, just shy of its $235 million high estimate. The first of the big spring auctions began Tuesday night at Sotheby’s, where paintings and sculptures by Cézanne, Braque and Léger topped expectations as bidders from 35 countries put money on their walls rather than in the shakier financial markets. The [...]

Body-Scanner Technology Reveals Male Figure Hidden in Louvre Artwork

artguru — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:37:37 +0000

“Terahertz” rays unveil a hidden image (red box) of a man’s face under the surface of Trois hommes armés de lances in Paris’ Louvre Museum. The same technology used for airport body-scanning and kitchen ovens has been adapted to reveal the secrets of artworks. The imaging technique is termed terahertz spectroscopy and makes use of [...]

Gardner Museum in Boston Offering $5 Million Reward for Stolen Art

artguru — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:05:48 +0000

Rembrandt painting in Devon abbey long thought to be pupil’s work is £20m a self-portrait

artguru — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:17:43 +0000

For three years, visitors to Buckland Abbey in Devon would have barely glanced twice at a portrait of Rembrandt hanging on the walls, believing it to be the work of one of the Dutch master’s pupils. Yet, interest is set to rocket after it emerged that the work on display in the former home of [...]

Gilbert & George’s “London Pictures”

artguru — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:33:12 +0000

The British artists George Passmore (L) and Gilbert Prousch (R) pose in front of their work ‘London Pictures’ at the museum Kueppersmuehle in Duisburg, western Germany, on March 14, 2013. The exhibition runs from March 20 until 30 June 2013. AFP PHOTO / CAROLINE SEIDEL. Completed in 2011, “London Pictures” is the title of the [...]

Van Dyck painting “found online”

artguru — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:29:47 +0000

A previously unknown painting by 17th Century master Van Dyck has been identified after being spotted online. Van Dyck’s portrait depicts Olivia Boteler Porter, lady-in-waiting to Charles I’s wife Henrietta Maria. The portrait was previously thought to have been a copy and was in storage at the Bowes Museum in County Durham. But it was [...]

Much-loved Picasso to leave UK for ever

artguru — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:57:06 +0000

New overseas owner of ‘Child with a Dove’ is free to take it home as soon as Courtauld show ends Picasso “Child with a Dove” One of the most recognised and loved pictures in all modern art is likely to disappear from public view in Britain for ever, when Picasso’s Child with a Dove heads [...]

Looking East: Rubens’s Encounter with Asia

artguru — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:19:27 +0000

Man in Korean Costume, about 1617, Peter Paul Rubens. The J. Paul Getty Museum Peter Paul Rubens’s Man in Korean Costume has been considered noteworthy since its creation in the early 1600s. This large-scale drawing, now in the Getty Museum’s collection, was copied in Rubens’s Antwerp studio during his own time and circulated as a [...]