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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Thursday, 11th October 2012 Let’s Talk About Sex For centuries our attitudes towards female artists, and the art they produce, has been prejudiced and biased. Is that at last starting to change, asks Ivan Lindsay? SINCE ANTIQUITY, WOMEN artists have been creating artworks alongside men, but their achievement has often been belittled and the value
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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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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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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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Should the Public Spend £50m on a Titian Painting? Is it really worth £50 million of public money for a masterpiece by one of the greatest artists ever, just so it can stay in Britain and be a source of joy and inspiration to heaven knows how many, asks Ivan Lindsay IN EARLY OCTOBER, the
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  Even if reports of the death of the blockbuster exhibition are somewhat exaggerated, it’s true that galleries are having to change the way they stage big shows, says Ivan Lindsay OVER THE SUMMER, the National Gallery and Royal Academy in London announced their autumn exhibitions, Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
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Trouble ahead in the Art market and general stock market   The Canary in the Mineshaft Where the art market leads, the stock market often follows. If what’s been going on at Sotheby’s lately is any kind of indicator, there are hard times to come, says Ivan Lindsay FOLLOWING THE RECENT two-week marathon of art
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