Sotheby’s to sell painting from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first solo show – The Art Newspaper
One of the most valuable commissions at this season’s New York auction-house sales is an early work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, ...
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Steve McQueen’s granddaughter files lawsuit over $68m Jackson Pollock painting – The Art Newspaper
A Jackson Pollock painting valued at $68m is in the middle of a legal dispute between a Los Angeles lawyer ...
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Jewish collector’s heirs revive Nazi loot claim to Van Gogh Sunflowers painting – The Art Newspaper
The heirs of the Jewish banker and collector Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy are continuing their court battle against a Japanese insurance ...
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Picasso painting not seen in 80 years heads to auction in France – The Art Newspaper
A French auction house is selling a work by Picasso that has not been seen in public for more than ...
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Francis Bacon painting, one half of a canvas divided by the artist, expected to sell for £9m at Sotheby’s – The Art Newspaper
Francis Bacon’s famous 1975 work, Portrait of a Dwarf, goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s London next month (16 October) ...
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The philosopher’s tone: Gilles Deleuze’s lively painting lectures are published in English – The Art Newspaper
The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once described university seminars as “a kind of Sprechgesang, closer to music than to theatre”. ...
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Seeing double: Vermeer painting and its mysterious ‘twin’ go on show in London – The Art Newspaper
One of Vermeer’s most famous paintings—The Guitar Player (1672)—goes on show today alongside its “twin” in a new display at ...
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How did the only painting sold by Van Gogh in his lifetime end up in Russia? – The Art Newspaper
The Red Vineyard is among Van Gogh’s most dramatically coloured Provençal landscapes, but it is also famed for being the ...
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A painting of a Russian soldier treating a wounded Ukrainian has been seen hanging in a church in Russia: what does it mean? – The Art Newspaper
A religious painting depicting a Russian soldier bandaging a Ukrainian soldier has been spotted in a monastery in northwestern Russia. ...
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British woman agrees to return stolen Renaissance painting to Italian museum – The Art Newspaper
A Renaissance painting stolen more than half a century ago has been returned to Italy after a British woman agreed ...
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