An interesting exhibition of religious works by the late Geli Korzhev has opened at the Ananiev museum in Moscow.   Korzhev died earlier this year and most of the works were created during the last 10 years when Korzhev’s thoughts turned increasingly to his own mortality. A few works, such as the magnificent ‘Eve’ standing
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High prices for art where the paint is still wet seem at the Art Basel Miami Fair seem to have triggered a slew of articles predicting the contempoarary art bubble is about to implode.  Other art world commentators such as Marion Maneker of the Art Monitor seem convinced that, like the stockmarket, the art market
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If the recent discovery of the colourful Renoir landscape in a West Virginia flea market sounded to good to be true….it was…as the picture turned out to be stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art.   On the Shore of the Seine, a colourful flickering landscape, was reputedly painted by Renoir for his mistress in
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New York financier Leon Black paid Sotheby’s nearly $120 million for “The Scream,” Edvard Munch’s 1895 pastel of a terrified man holding his head, according to several people close to the collector. The identity of the buyer—who set a record for a work of art sold at auction—had been one of the art world’s most
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This painting attributed to Jackson Pollock is the focus of a lawsuit against the Knoedler gallery. By Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 5th August 2012. Federal District Court Judge Paul G. Gardephe’s résumé includes many impressive accomplishments but not an art history degree. Nonetheless he has been asked to answer a question on which even
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Christie’s Press Release THE OLD MASTER MARKET HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS FOR OLD MASTER WEEK IN LONDON The most successful season of Old Master auctions in history realised a combined total of £95,485,505 ($149,775,156; €118,714,958). These results demonstrate Christie’s leadership in the category, holding a 62% share in the global Old Master Paintings market against our
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Published: June 22, 2012 LONDON — There was a noticeable change of mood this week in the art market. As if they had belatedly realized that the world economy is truly going through a rocky patch, the world’s self-made men and women who used to have fun tossing millions at any passing 20th-century work of
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Blue-chip works find buyers at Christie’s and Sotheby’s Post-war and contemporary sales in London are strong, but market jitters persist By Gareth Harris and Javier Pes. Web only Published online: 28 June 2012 Klein’s Le Rose du bleu (RE 22), 1960, goes under the hammer at Christie’s On the eve of the post-war and contemporary
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The Story Behind the Royal Collection One is Remarkably Eclectic Ivan Lindsay on the story behind the Royal Collection — not only the finest private accumulation of artworks, objets and curios in the world, but also a mirror of the diverse tastes and predilections of every British monarch since Charles I THE ROYAL COLLECTION has
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Rumours had been circulating for a while that the late George Embiricos’s Cezanne of the ‘Card Players’ had been sold for US$250m.  Earlier this week Vanity Fair broke the story that the painting had been acquired by the ruling family of Qatar who have been buying large amounts of contemporary art of late.  The Qataris
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