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13.11.2014 Sotheby’s staged the most expensive auction in its history, earning on November 4 more than $ 422 million in the sale of works by impressionists and contemporary art.
12.11.2014 NEW YORKFrom November 7 to December 9, the June Kelly Gallery hosts an exhibition of new surrealistic works by the Latin American artist Julio Valdes, displaying on the canvas his sensual inspiration, inspired by an endless palette of blue and green shades of the sea, splashing off the coast of his homeland - the Dominican Republic.
11.11.2014 NEW YORK. Spring (La Primavera), a masterpiece written in 1881 by Edouard Manet, was sold last Tuesday for $ 65.13 million at Christie’s auction in New York, setting a new record for French Impressionist works.
03.11.2014 LONDON. The former owner of the painting, sold for 42,000 pounds, filed a new lawsuit against Sotheby’s Auction House after the painting was attributed to Caravaggio’s work and the new owner estimated it at 10 million pounds.
30.10.2014 For all Porsche fans, a field trip might be comparable to a religious experience, but still not enough to compare with a visit to the Sistine Chapel.
29.10.2014 LONDON. Queen’s legendary guitarist Brian May has provided Tate Britain with a personal collection of rare stereographic photographs from Queen Victoria’s era.
26.10.2014 Thessaloniki. An impressive mosaic, recently discovered in the largest ancient burial ever found in Greece, depicts the myth of the abduction of Persephone, daughter of Zeus, who became the goddess of the underworld.
24.10.2014 PARIS. The portrait of the French king Henry III (1551-89), who disappeared from the Louvre during World War II, was auctioned in Paris last week.
23.07.2014 MADRID. The Audit Court of Spain conducted a check in one of the world’s largest art museums in the world - the Prado (Museo Nacional del Prado) and discovered the loss of 885 exhibits.
13.07.2014 The eBay online auction closed the artist’s online store, which admitted to selling fake paintings by twentieth-century English artist Laurence Lowry.
13.07.2014 A painting by Henri Matisse, stolen from a museum in Caracas more than ten years ago, was returned to Venezuela on July 7.
09.07.2014 The French cave, which houses the earliest and best-preserved cave paintings in the world, was included in UNESCO’s cherished World Heritage List.
03.07.2014 The Vatican Museums hope that the new climate control system, which will be installed this fall, will almost triple the number of visitors to the Sistine Chapel who want to enjoy Renaissance frescoes. In this case, the system will be practically invisible to visitors.
01.07.2014 PITTSBURG. The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh nearly destroyed a 16th-century Florentine portrait. The picture, recognized as a modern fake, was only sent at the last minute for additional examination.
25.06.2014 The complete restoration and repair of the famous Mauritshuis in The Hague was finally completed, and all the treasures of the museum took their places. The museum opens later this week after a 2-year renovation.