UK government bans export of £10m Botticelli painting
The Art Newspaper
MAY 12, 2025
The work was previously held in a private collection for 120 years
Snug as a bug: conservation work reveals beetle in Gauguin cat painting
The Art Newspaper
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
The painting, which has just gone on display at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, was previously hidden away in a private collection for over a century
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting thought to be lost for decades goes on display in Basel
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 6, 2025
The foundation’s collection—drawn from the acquisitions of the Swiss father and son collectors Karl and Jürg Im Obersteg—is on permanent loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel. It was, however, discovered a year later in a crate by French soldiers who are said to have damaged it, with the painting struck by a bullet and pierced by a bayonet.
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Sotheby's secures most valuable single owner collection of Old Master paintings to come to auction
The Art Newspaper
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Around 60 works estimated for a total of $80m to $120m from the collection of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders will be offered in New York this May
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'Regret when collecting stems from missing out on monetary gain': artist Dominic Chambers on the art he buys
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 18, 2024
The painter, who features in a major Black figurative painting survey at the Kunstmuseum Basel, discusses his growing collection
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Nazi-loot panel set up by private Swiss collection to evaluate painting by Hodler
The Art Newspaper
MAY 14, 2024
The painting, purchased by the real estate magnate Bruno Stefanini in 1998, was once owned by a Jewish woman who fled Hitler’s Germany
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Collection of Salvator Mundi Museum in Brooklyn confirmed as safe after break-in
The Art Newspaper
AUGUST 21, 2024
The small storefront institution, devoted to objects and ephemera related to the most expensive painting ever sold, will reopen soon
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London's National Gallery to ban liquids after attacks on paintings
The Art Newspaper
OCTOBER 17, 2024
The gallery will introduce new security measures, stating it has been "forced to act to protect our visitors, staff and collection"
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Peggy Guggenheim's influential—and short-lived—London gallery to be celebrated in new show in Venice and at London's Royal Academy
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 9, 2025
Among the highlights in the exhibition opening at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice next year will be a painting created by a teenage Lucian Freud
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Magritte painting could bring more than $95m at Christie's marquee New York sales this autumn
The Art Newspaper
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
If it goes for the auction house's estimate, "L'empire des lumières" (1954), from the collection of late interior designer Mica Ertegun, would set an auction record for the Surrealist artist
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Documentary on Jewish dealer Max Stern’s collection finds answers and absurdity
The Art Newspaper
JANUARY 21, 2025
A new film focuses on two paintings Stern was forced to sell as the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s, which ended up at the Dsseldorf City Museum
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A disembodied Marilyn Monroe and a vibrant De Kooning from the collection of Eric Clapton: our pick of the October sales
The Art Newspaper
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Plus, a colourful Magritte painting and a Simone Baltaxé tapestry
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‘Like Picasso, everything he touched was wonderful’: the art world pays tribute to Frank Auerbach
The Art Newspaper
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Curators, institutions and critics remember a “humble giant of figurative painting” who worked from the same London studio for 70 years and made his home city, its art collections and inhabitants the subject of his unique output
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Facing accusations of hiding Nazi loot, Bavaria pledges more research and greater transparency
The Art Newspaper
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
The states culture minister has responded to an outcry after a newspaper reported that the Bavarian State Painting Collections keeps an unpublished internal list of 200 Nazi-looted works in its possession
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In a gallery far, far away: new Star Wars-themed museum to bring together 1.5 million objects, including 15ft-long painting
The Art Newspaper
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The museum, whose owners are still searching for a building, seeks to merge the four largest current collections of Star Wars props, toys and works of art
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Work from Anthony Caro’s personal art collection up for sale at Christie’s
The Art Newspaper
MARCH 11, 2025
The leading lot is a painting by Caros close friend and fellow artist Kenneth Noland
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'Venus, morning star, sweet potato': Gagosian pairs Basquiat painting with ancient Roman sculpture for new Paris show
The Art Newspaper
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Exploring the theme of classical art in the American artist's work, the gallery is bringing together a 1982 canvas with a marble figure of Venus from the rarely seen Torlonia Collection
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A painting of Venice’s Grand Canal, previously thought to be by Canaletto, has been attributed to his teenage nephew
The Art Newspaper
MARCH 10, 2025
Specialists at London's Wallace Collection have attributed an 18th-century work to Bernardo Bellotto, who would then have been aged just 15 or 16
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Eike Schmidt unveils restoration and loans projects in Naples after losing Florence electoral bid
The Art Newspaper
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The director of the Museo di Capodimonte plans to restore 21 Renaissance paintings from the collection
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Why writing off the Mona Lisa would serve the Louvre better than worshipping it
The Art Newspaper
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
The Paris museum should forget about the hugely costly move of the Leonardo painting and focus instead on the myriad other masterpieces in its collection
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The Permanent Collection: Johann Liss Painted an Unusually Aged Adam and Eve
Artnet News
JULY 6, 2024
The post The Permanent Collection: Johann Liss Painted an Unusually Aged Adam and Eve appeared first on Artnet News. Gallerie dell’Accademia curator Michele Nicolaci discusses this biblical vision.
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Turmoil at Bavarian state museums as director quits and state prosecutor investigates
The Art Newspaper
APRIL 7, 2025
A crisis that began as an uproar over how the Bavarian State Painting Collections handles Nazi-looted art has widened as Bernhard Maaz clears the way for a new beginning, according to the state minister
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‘His paintings are magical’: Barry Humphries’s art to feature alongside Dame Edna memorabilia at Christie’s auction
The Art Newspaper
JANUARY 29, 2025
The entertainers collection also includes rare bookssuch as very early editions of Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest
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Paula Rego paintings replace royal portrait at No.10 Downing Street
The Art Newspaper
OCTOBER 14, 2024
In a major re-hang, scenes from Rego’s mural Crivelli’s Garden have appeared in place of portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh
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The Saunders collection will be a real test of the Old Master market
The Art Newspaper
MARCH 6, 2025
Due to be sold at Sotheby's New York in May, the group of works includes pieces by Guardi and Canaletto and is billed as the "most valuable single-owner collection of Old Master paintings ever to appear at auction"
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Christie’s to Offer a Rare Toulouse-Lautrec Bordello Painting Held in Private Collection for a Century
Artnet News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
The post Christie’s to Offer a Rare Toulouse-Lautrec Bordello Painting Held in Private Collection for a Century appeared first on Artnet News. La Femme Tatouée' (1894) is estimated at $3.3 million to $4.6
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The Clare and Jared Edwards Collection
Maine Antique Digest
AUGUST 30, 2024
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) was famous for his paintings of girls—girls by a pool, in the mountains, lying on grass, standing on balconies, on a swing, leaning against a tree, and balanced on rocks. In the early 1930s he completely changed his style to
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Eyelash magnate Sydell Miller’s art collection estimated to bring around $200m at Sotheby’s
The Art Newspaper
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
The sale's most valuable lot, a water lily painting by Claude Monet, is expected to sell in the region of $60m
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Acquisitions round-up: a rediscovered 19th-century self-portrait, Van Gogh’s ‘Mona Lisa of Brabant’ and a painting by a contemporary Tanzanian artist
The Art Newspaper
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
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American Art with Works from the Collection of Linda L. Bean
Maine Antique Digest
JANUARY 29, 2025
Bean, was offered, including paintings by the Wyeth family of artists. Bonhams, New York City Photos courtesy Bonhams Bonhams held its American art sale the week before Thanksgiving, as is its custom. A selection of works from the estate of Linda L. Bean (1941-2024), granddaughter of the founder of L.L. The November 19
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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
JUNE 13, 2025
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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Hyland Granby Antiques Offers Seven Paintings from the Lewis Collection
Maine Antique Digest
MARCH 31, 2025
In this fast-changing world, more collectors and executors of estates have been consigning works of high quality to the trade for sale rather than sending them to auction. The buyers pay more money at auction with the high buyers premium, so the sellers can do better with a private sale
Painted with Silk at the DIA
Maine Antique Digest
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
It is mostly a loan exhibition of 69 samplers and pictorial embroideries and memorials from three private collections. One painting and two early Piainted with Silk: The Art of Early American Embroidery on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) opened on December 13 and continues through June 15.
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Sandy Smith’s Collection
Maine Antique Digest
APRIL 9, 2025
Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York Photos courtesy Stair Galleries The January 30 sale of art and antiques from the estate of show promoter Sanford Sandy Smith (1939-2024) brought a total of $604,648.88 (including buyers premiums) for 160 lots of folk art, figural shooting gallery targets, marine paintings, bronze sculptures, Grenfell hooked rugs,
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Bernd Ebert named head of Dresden State Art Collections—one of Germany’s biggest museum roles
The Art Newspaper
MARCH 4, 2025
Currently in charge of Dutch and German baroque painting at the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Ebert succeeds Marion Ackermann in May
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Collection Brief // Info and Insight on Art of Collecting
Art Peritus
JUNE 24, 2025
Be sure to explore our featured blog celebrating the allure of vintage collecting—an homage to timeless elegance and the iconic styles. Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World, on view at the Art Institute of Chicago 29 June until 5 October AUCTIONS Keep your eye out for the Exceptional sales and No Reserve sales that happen in July!
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American trompe-l’oeil painting collection beguiles bidders at DuMouchelles May 16-17
Auction Central News
MAY 7, 2024
DETROIT, MI – Not just a trick of the eye, DuMouchelles’ sale on Thursday, May 16 and Friday, May 17 does include a private collection of a dozen American trompe-l’oeil paintings. The 12 oils come for sale from ‘a prominent Grosse Pointe Park collector of American art.’
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Fall Antiques and Art Auction with Gunn Textile Collection
Maine Antique Digest
JANUARY 29, 2025
Top lots ranged from Clyde Singer paintings to Blenko glass. The most notable inclusion, however, was the first part of the lifetime collection of Dr. Virginia Meander Auctions, Whipple, Ohio Photos courtesy Meander Auctions Meander Auctions held its fall antiques and art auction September 28 at the companys gallery in Whipple, Ohio.
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The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 20, 2025
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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Colourful past is revealed by National Trust paint lab
Antique Collecting
DECEMBER 16, 2024
New insights into the colourful world of the past are being revealed at a new National Trust archive of thousands The post Colourful past is revealed by National Trust paint lab appeared first on Antique Collecting.
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Swiss Bührle Foundation seeks to settle with Jewish heirs on major Impressionist works
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 17, 2024
Paintings by Courbet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Gauguin are to be removed from display at Zurich’s Kunsthaus
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Cleveland Museum of Art acquires rare Giambologna marble sculpture
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 24, 2025
The only other Giambologna marble in a collection outside Italy is his Samson Slaying the Philistine (1560-62) at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Noelle, the assistant curator of European paintings and sculpture, 1500-1800.
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Art Bites: Rosa Bonheur Had to Go Incognito to Paint ‘The Horse Fair’
Artnet News
APRIL 21, 2024
The painting has been a highlight of the Met's collection since being donated in 1887. The post Art Bites: Rosa Bonheur Had to Go Incognito to Paint ‘The Horse Fair’ appeared first on Artnet News.
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The Braford Collection: Part One
Maine Antique Digest
JANUARY 13, 2025
Now closed, the shop specialized in paintings, choice 18th- and 19th-century furniture, bronzes, and accessories for the
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