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With the help of conservators, one of Van Gogh’s finest Arles landscapes will be heading to Japan

The Art Newspaper

Bridge at Arles (March 1888) was one of the first landscape paintings done by Van Gogh after his arrival in Provence. In the painting, a group of washerwomen work by the canal that runs south from Arles to the Mediterranean. Seeking his support, Van Gogh added a dedication to Tersteeg on the painting, just above his signature.

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Chardin’s strawberries masterpiece forms fruity backdrop to Dior catwalk

The Art Newspaper

Eagle-eyed arty fashionistas spotted two delectable paintings by the underrated 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin hanging alongside the catwalk. LVMH also owns Dior. The Art Newspaper

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The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

The Art Newspaper

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.

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How Gretchen Andrew’s AI art is revealing the societal scars of ‘facetuning’

The Art Newspaper

Andrew, who has written on art and technology for The Art Newspaper since 2020, has worked with the creative robotics company Matr Labs to create her paintings in a process that is as tech-heavy as the facetuning itself.

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London's pre-contemporary art market gets boost from two new summer events

The Art Newspaper

Rachel Elwes, a director at Ben Elwes Fine Art, explains that she and her husband, Ben, travel frequently to Scandinavia and have sold numerous paintings by artists from the region to both museums and private collectors. “I 9 Cork Street, with 35 participating galleries showing over 250 drawings from the 15th to 21st centuries.

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In tough times for dealers, Art Basel debuts a section for new works

The Art Newspaper

Gypsum gallery from Cairo is showing two artists in dialogue at Premiere: paintings by the Swiss Greek artist Dimitra Charamandas depicting volcanic terrain, and photographs by the Egyptian-born, Basel-based artist Basim Magdy, also of volcanic debris. Yes, every fair is a risk, but if my gallery can’t take risks now, when can we?”

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Phillips claims stake in South Asian market with London exhibition

The Art Newspaper

Prominently placed are two paintings by the Keralan artist Viswanathan, his first commercial outing since his survey show at this year's Sharjah Biennial. Husain, whose monumental Gram Yatra (1954) broke the record for Indian painting at auction when it sold at Christie's New York in March, for $13.7m. for a 1950s oil by M.F.