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12.08.2012 Rembrandt created over 400 paintings in his life, Van Gogh - more than 1200. Their compatriot, Johannes Vermeer (1632-75), wrote a total of 35.
10.08.2012 After an 8-month fundraising campaign, the Ashmolean Museum was able to acquire a painting of Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus by Edward Manet for £ 7,830,000 and save it, thereby, in the United Kingdom.
08.08.2012 The Smithsonian American Art Museum has announced nominees for its award for Best Contemporary Artist.
07.08.2012 The first ever exhibition was opened in Hamburg, at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, combining nearly 200 works created based on a fairy tale over 150 years of its history, including paintings, sculptures, book illustrations, photographs, drawings, films and installations.
07.08.2012 An unusual exhibition called the Employee Art Show will be shown until August 19 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
06.08.2012 The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston (The Museum of Fine Arts) announced that more than 100 masterpieces of one of the most famous collections of European painting in the world will be presented in the museum since December 16, 2012, as part of the exhibition Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces of the Prado (Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado).
05.08.2012 The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida has announced the closure of the exhibition “Stripped Bare and Bathed: the Preservation of Dalí’s Masterworks”, which provides an opportunity to take a look at the dramatic process of preserving works of art.
04.08.2012 On July 31, the international exhibition of contemporary museum art, Fenosa Gas Natural, began in A Coruña. The exhibition takes place every two years, and strive to show the diversity and eclecticism of new artistic trends.
02.08.2012 A painting of Roy Lichtenstein, worth several million dollars, which disappeared 42 years ago, was found in a warehouse in Manhattan.
02.08.2012 Goya’s early religious work of 80 years sagged unrecognized in a private collection. In September, he will be sold at the Koller auction in Zurich.
02.08.2012 An exhibition dedicated to the black and white works of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) will run from October 5 to January 23, 2013 at the Museo Guggenheim Museum in New York.
21.07.2012 This autumn The louvre museum (Louvre) opens a new exhibition space dedicated exclusively to the art of Islam. An additional 4,600 square meters have been created for the new department in the heart of the museum, which will showcase about 20,000 works of art, the museum’s press service announced today.
21.07.2012 The masterpieces of Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro and other prominent representatives of Impressionism will show the Hermitage Amsterdam exhibition center.
19.07.2012 Art historians argue about the authorship of the recently found in the garage in Vienna fresco "Trumpeting Putto", attributed earlier to the brush of Gustav Klimt (Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918). According to some experts, the author of this work is the brother of the artist, Ernst (Ernst Klimt, 1864-1892), according to the English The Guardian.
19.07.2012 The painting of the great French master Henri Matisse, which was stolen from the Museum of Caracas (Venezuela) more than ten years ago, was returned today, during a secret operation in one of the Miami Beach hotels.