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Selling American Paintings to Buyers Doesn’t Have to be Hard. Read These 5 Tips

Antique Appraisers Auctioneers

It has a wide array of influences and draws on traditions from Europe, Native Americans, Africa, and Asia. If you have inherited or previous purchased an American painting that you want to sell, you may be wondering where to start and how to get it noticed by American art collectors. Know your painting.

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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

The Art Newspaper

In place of plastic, the Ghanaian artist enfolded the building in a material evocative of global labour and trade—jute sacks made in Southeast Asia and imported to Ghana for the transportation of cocoa beans to European markets. ft of polyethylene over the Neo-Classical façade of the Kunsthalle Bern—their first wrapping of an entire building.

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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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2024 Moving into 2025 Design Trends Likely to Affect Value of Personal Property

International Society of Appraisers

Items such as folk art, unique and creative paintings, hand-blown Venetian glass, delft style ceramic tiles, handmade vases, and quilts are splashed throughout interiors. Interest in heavily painted furniture has waned and been replaced by a more modern farmhouse style.

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In pictures: Art Basel's Unlimited section offers visions of utopia

The Art Newspaper

There is also a healthy dose of textile, performance and painting from the 1960s onwards. It was built in sections over four years: there are people with caravans, an area with the materials needed for the future—such as medicines and food—as well as monuments for the fallen.” Here, Carmine picks some of his favourite works.

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Nadira Azzouz – An Iraqi Woman Artist Rediscovered

Mark Hill

Early in 2020, I bid on and bought a mid-century modern abstract oil on board painting at auction totally sight-unseen, because it looked like it might be the work of an artist I collect right now. A good friend suggested it shows a person seated in a chair drawing or painting a board or canvas. characters, written in biro.

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Gallery Hopping in Dallas

Art Advisor's Blog

"Markhor and Snow Leopard" | "Wolf and Fox" | "Snails and Ibis" Snippet of the show’s description: Isabelle du Toit’s finely detailed oil paintings of birds, insects and mammals, found on a stark deep background enhances the isolation and the fragility of these creatures. I particularly enjoyed the predator-prey relationship in each painting.