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29.05.2015 Relatives of Peggy Guggenheim (Peggy Guggenheim) are trying to challenge the management of her collection, located in the Venetian palazzo, and appealed to the court of appeal.
27.05.2015 The director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Wim Pijbes, has several good reasons to be proud of his work.
17.05.2015 The first work from the controversial collection of Cornelius Gurlitt was returned to the heirs of the original owner on May 15. “Femme assise” Henri Matisse was found hidden in a box with tomatoes in Gurlitt’s apartment in Munich in 2012.
15.05.2015 POMPEII. Some of the most famous frescoes in the ancient Roman Pompeii were restored using a course of antibiotics.
07.05.2015 The debate between the Museum of the National Heritage of Spain and the National Museum of the Prado in Madrid about the ownership of four important paintings by old masters continues.
07.05.2015 DUBAI. Dubai-based Jumeirah Emirates Towers, in collaboration with Ayyam Gallery, erected a new Elephant Trio sculpture outside the main entrance.
27.04.2015 Online art sales rose to $ 2.64 million, according to The Hiscox Online Art Trade Report 2015. Last year, the figure was $ 1.57 million. Such figures are given in a report released on Tuesday by the British insurance company Hiscox.
21.04.2015 LONDON. All famous drawings from the private album “Witches and Old Women” Francisco Goya (1746-1828) were presented in their original sequence.
13.04.2015 VEIN. The director of one of the museums in Vienna requires the introduction of temporary restrictions on claims for the restitution of works of art seized by the Nazis.
10.04.2015 ROME. Italian police discovered a picture of Pablo Picasso, estimated at 15 million euros.
16.03.2015 BERLIN. Gerhard Richter (1932), who today is considered the most expensive artist of the living, said in an interview with Die Zeit that he “watched with horror” as an anonymous buyer paid 46.7 million US dollars for his painting “ Abstract Painting ”(Abstraktes Bild, 1986) at Sotheby’s auction held on February 10 this year in London.
14.03.2015 LONDON. Experts have found out why the heroes of the early paintings of the great 18th-century England portrait painter Joshua Reynolds have a very pale appearance. It’s all about choosing pigments.
13.03.2015 MADRID. Usually, visitors to the Prado Museum (Museo del Prado) cannot come closer to the paintings than at arm’s length. But recently, a completely ordinary Spaniard, Jose Pedro González, got the opportunity to slide his fingers over one of El Greco’s most famous paintings, The Nobleman With His Hand on His Chest. How did this become possible?
11.03.2015 PARIS. The thirteenth edition of the 13th Annual Global Art Market Report, prepared by Artprice, the world leader in fine arts market information and its institutional partner in China, Art Market Monitor of Artron, contains 288 pages of information instead traditional 180.
09.03.2015 MEXICO CITY. The incident that occurred with the brothers James and John Font, natives of Girona, is worthy of being included in the history of not only art, but also forensics.