London dealer cleared over negligent sale of a Chardin painting
The London-based dealer Simon Dickinson has been cleared of negligence over the sale of La Bénédicité (saying grace, 1744) by ...
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Poland says Kandinsky painting sold at Berlin auction house was stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw
A Wassily Kandinsky watercolour painting that was sold yesterday evening at Grisebach auction house in Berlin is the subject of ...
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Climate activists in Vienna pour oil over Gustav Klimt painting
Two climate activists poured oil over a Gustav Klimt painting in Vienna today. The petroleum-like substance was emptied on to ...
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Painting damaged in Beirut blast identified as a work by Artemisia Gentileschi
A painting rescued from the debris of a historic mansion, destroyed by the 4 August 2020 double explosion in the ...
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Brazilian artist Maxwell Alexandre on his show at The Shed and the politics of painting bodies
The Brazilian artist Maxwell Alexandre, whose exhibition Pardo é Papel: The Glorious Victory and New Power opens at The Shed ...
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After San Francisco museum acquires Canaletto painting in pre-auction deal, Christie’s marquee Getty sale brings in $79.4m
One of the crown jewels of the collection of the San Francisco-based philanthropists Ann and Gordon Getty—which is being offered ...
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A painting marketed as ‘by Titian’—but also attributed to his workshop—will be offered at Sotheby’s in December for £8m
Sotheby's will headline its London Old Master evening sale on 7 December with a painting that it describes as the ...
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Painting for food with Jeppe Hein, toasting Manhattan’s newest galleries and more Armory Week festivities
Like seasons, art fairs come with their meteorological signals. The Armory Show’s previous March slot always seemed to coincide with ...
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Russian guard who doodled eyes on $1m painting sentenced as scrutiny of museum intensifies
A magistrate’s court in Yekaterinburg, Russia, ruled today (29 August) that a security guard at the city’s Yeltsin Centre who ...
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Ilya Repin’s chilling painting of Ivan the Terrible—vandalised in 2018 by a drunk man with a metal pole—goes back on show at Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery
After four years of painstaking and pioneering restoration, Ilya Repin’s 1885 masterpiece Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan was ...
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