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Amateur accidentally discovered on the Internet the very first picture of Gainsborough
04.01.2017 Looking through local auction catalogs on the Internet, every art lover dreams of discovering a long-lost or unknown work of a great artist, hidden among thousands of old paintings, books and furniture.
A smaller version of Mane’s "Breakfast on the Grass" is not a copy, but a preparatory study
29.11.2016 LONDON. Courtauld Gallery restorers in London believe their version of Le déjeuner sur l’Herbe by Édouard Manet is not just a copy of a painting from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and her preparatory phase.
Rijksmuseum has released its own cookbook
27.11.2016 AMSTERDAM. The Rijksmuseum has released its own cookbook, which includes descriptions of 130 dishes from 50 ingredients traditional for Holland.
Claude Monet’s picture was sold at auction for a record amount
26.11.2016 NEW YORK. The picture "Rack" (La Meule, 1891) by Claude Monet (Claude Monet, 1840-1926) became the top lot of the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale auction, which Christie’s auction house held on November 16.
The Louvre presented a restored painting by Leonardo da Vinci
13.11.2016 PARIS. After 10 months of restoration The louvre museum put up a picture again "St. John the Baptist" (St John the Baptist) one of the last works Leonardo da Vinci . The masterpiece took its place in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, which is visited by about 9 million people a year.
Austrian authorities detained six dealers while trying to sell fake Picasso paintings
12.11.2016 VEIN. Pretending to be potential buyers, Austrian law enforcement authorities arrested a group of dealers selling fake paintings by Pablo Picasso back in July 2016, but details of this operation have been released just now.
The widow of Picasso may have tried to hide part of the artist’s works from the heirs
05.11.2016 EX-AN-PROVENCE. A former electrician who had kept about 300 works of Pablo Picasso in his garage for almost 40 years, told the French Court of Appeals that the artist’s widow may have wanted to hide these works from her family.
Van Gogh cut off his ear after the news that his brother is getting married
04.11.2016 A new study casts doubt on the popular theory that the artist cut off his ear after a quarrel with Paul Gauguin.
American collectors make d’Orsay Museum the largest donation since World War II
02.11.2016 PARIS. Two collectors from the United States, Spencer and Marlene Hays, donated the Musée d’Orsay to their personal art collection. This donation was the largest for France since World War II - more than 600 paintings from the late XIX - early XX centuries, including works by Pierre Bonnard, Eduard Vuillard, Amedeo Modigliani and Henri Matisse.
Scam of the century: fakes under the Old Masters upset the world of art
28.10.2016 AMSTERDAM. This picture convinced experts in The Louvre . The main French cultural officials declared it a national treasure.
"St. Jerome" Parmigianino - a fake? Investigation of scandal surrounding falsification of paintings continues
24.10.2016 PARIS. Painting "Saint Jerome" (Saint Jerome) attributed to Parmigianino (Parmigianino) , may be involved in a scandal involving private collectors, a large auction house and famous museums. There is reason to believe that the picture is a fake.
Caravaggio’s painting was at the center of the money laundering trial
18.10.2016 PARIS. Caravaggio’s painting was the main evidence of the prosecution in the case of the Franco-American billionaire from the Wildenstein dynasty.
Gentileschi’s painting discovered 4 years ago may turn out to be a modern fake
17.10.2016 LONDON. Orazio Gentileschi’s painting David Contemplating the Head of Goliath, Orazio Gentileschi, until recently at the National Gallery in London, may turn out to be a fake. If so, it will seriously undermine the credibility of the gallery.
The vicissitudes of fate: how in the UK the attitude towards the work of Caravaggio changed
15.10.2016 LONDON. Next month, the National Gallery in London opens the exhibition "After Caravaggio" (Beyond Caravaggio), which will present the work of followers of the Italian maestro of the Baroque era. The exhibition includes 49 paintings provided mainly by educational institutions in the UK, such artists as Orazio Gentileschi, Jusepe de Ribera and Valantin de Boulogne.
Two paintings by Van Gogh, stolen 14 years ago in Amsterdam, were discovered in a mansion of the Italian mafia
13.10.2016 NAPLES. Naples police found two paintings by Vincent van Gogh that were stolen from the artist’s museum in Amsterdam (The Van Gogh Museum) fourteen years ago. According to the representative of the museum, their curator has already examined the work at the request of the Italian authorities and came to the unequivocal conclusion that they are real.