04 mai 2011
Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale Brings $170.5 Million in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Tonight’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale at Sotheby’s New York achieved $170,478,000, within the overall pre-sale estimate ($158.9/229.7 million). The auction was 74.6% sold by lot, and saw a total of 37 works sell for over $1 million. Pablo Picasso’s Femmes lisant (Deux personnages) was the top lot of the night, achieving $21,362,500, and auction records were established for the Surrealist artist Paul Delvaux and for a sculpture by Paul Gauguin. “This evening’s sale saw solid bidding activity from... [Lire la suite]
06 février 2011
"French Drawings: Poussin to Seurat" @ National Gallery of Scotland
Georges Seurat, Seated Nude: Study for 'Une Baignade', 1883. Conte crayon on cream paper: 31.70 x 24.70 cm. National Gallery of Scotland
EDINBURGH.- An outstanding collection of French master drawings will be the focus of a new display at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh next spring. Over the last thirty years the Gallery has carefully and deliberately strengthened its holdings in this area, and is now home to one of the best collections of French drawings in the UK. Among the 60 works on show, ranging in date from the... [Lire la suite]
13 décembre 2010
Wikileaks révèle les dessous de la diplomatie culturelle : l’or espagnol contre un tableau de Pissarro
Camille Pissarro - Rue Saint-Honoré, après-midi, effet de la pluie (1897) - Huile sur toile - 81 x 65 cm - Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid - source wikipedia
LONDRES (ROYAUME-UNI) – Selon un câble révélé par Wikileaks, l’Espagne, qui réclame la propriété d’un trésor découvert par une firme américaine dans l’Atlantique, refuse une offre de l’ambassade US: les Etats-Unis considèreraient la demande de l’Espagne à condition qu’un Pissarro du musée Thyssen-Bornemisza spolié par les Nazis soit restitué à son héritier, un citoyen... [Lire la suite]
06 mai 2010
Sotheby's May 2010 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art Brings $195 Million

03 novembre 2009
Forty Exceptional Works will be Offered at Christie's Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art

14 octobre 2009
Picasso and Degas Highlight Christie's Impressionist & Modern Art Sale

09 août 2009
Impressionist Paintings from the Durand-Ruel Collection will be sold @ Sotheby's NY
NEW YORk, NY. - Sotheby’s 4 November 2009 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York will feature seven paintings from the Durand-Ruel Collection, encompassing works by a number of the Impressionist masters that legendary art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel represented -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley. All but one work were acquired by Paul Durand-Ruel directly from the artist and all have remained in the family ever since. Many have not been exhibited since the 1950s and together the offering is... [Lire la suite]
28 juillet 2009
'Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes' @ the J. Paul Getty Museum

03 juin 2009
Duchamp, Miró, Marc, Monet and Picasso Highlight Christie's Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) Le pot de pivoines, signed and dated 'Henri Matisse 1920' (lower right), oil on canvas, 25¾ x 21 5/8 in. (65.5 x 54.9 cm.) Painted in Nice in 1920. Estimate 2,300,000 - £2,800,000
LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place at Christie’s on 23 June and will offer 46 works of art, including exceptional museum-quality masterpieces by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Franz Marc, Joan Miró, Camille Pissarro and Marcel Duchamp. The auction is expected to realise... [Lire la suite]
10 mars 2009
Eight valuable € 2.4 million paintings stolen in 1987 found seriously damaged
