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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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Holocaust-restitution firm Mondex settles legal feud with heir over fees for $24m Chagall painting

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"Over Vitebsk" by Marc Chagall hung at the Museum of Modern Art for decades until 2020, when it was restituted to the the heirs of a Jewish-owned art gallery in 1930s Berlin

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Record for Indian painting at auction smashed by $13.7m M.F. Husain

The Art Newspaper

high estimate, as South Asian Modern art crests a wave The work sold at Christies New York, almost quadrupling its $3.5m

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Les Nabis Revealed: The 8 Artists Who Redefined Modern Art as We Know It

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Energized to achieve a “beauty beyond visible reality,” the Nabis group of French artists challenged convention to create a new artistic vision, as they harnessed Paul Gauguin’s synthetism to envisage an exciting alternative that would usher in the age of modern art. He also painted many nudes of his wife Marthe de Méligny.

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Paint Drippings: Everything You Missed in the Art Industry Last Week

Artnet News

From the top sales at Art Basel to the surprise closure of New York's Center for Italian Modern Art. The post Paint Drippings: Everything You Missed in the Art Industry Last Week appeared first on Artnet News.

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How Japonisme Shaped Modern Art

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Coined in the late 19th century to describe the Western craze for Japanese art and design, the influence of Japonisme blossomed after Japanese ports reopened to Western trade in 1854 after being closed to the West for over 200 years, and in doing so helped to lay the foundations for Modern Art. And in Japonisme they found it.

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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.