Impressionism & Modern Art
Sotheby's evening Impressionist and Modern sale last week totaled €14.4 million ($19.3 million), landing in the high end of its pre-sale estimate of €11,184,000-15,705,000. The sell-through rate for the sale was 74 percent by lot, or 85.7 percent by...
James Fox is charming, handsome, and learned. One of his students described him as resembling Caravaggio’s "soft boy" paintings, and he was once propositioned by Germaine Greer in a library basement. He teaches at University of Cambridge and is being groomed...
Over the weekend, news broke that federal authorities are investigating a group of at least 16 possible forgeries sold by some of New York’s most elite art dealers over the course of nearly two decades. The investigation focuses on Long Island dealer Glafira...
Six men are currently appearing in a southern French court, charged with stealing four paintings valued at €22 million ($29.3 million) from Nice's Musée des Beaux-Arts in 2007. And in a turn of events that has taken on all the trappings of a crime drama, they...
Ray Turner, a descendent of J.M.W. Turner, is going to parliament at the end of the month asking for the country to honor the terms of his ancestor's legacy — which have been ignored for the last 160 years. Turner has also threatened not to leave his six-...
India is a country of 1.2 billion people, and though the percentage of those people in the middle and upper classes is small, it's growing quickly. Now, a new group of art-minded investors is trying to lure some of that wealth toward the art market in...
Lembram-se do eletricista de Picasso no sul da França, que alegou que o artista deu a ele 271 obras? Ele foi indiciado no último verão depois de os beneméritos de Picasso o terem acusado de ter roubado os itens. Agora um caso semelhante está sendo...
After 15 years, Paris Photo is leaving its longtime home at the Carrousel du Louvre dungeon for the charm of the Grand Palais, a more attractive venue for big name galleries. The gambit seems to have paid off: Gagosian, Marian Goodman, San Francisco's...
For its 25th anniversary, the Musée d'Orsay has had a full face-lift. After its reopening was delayed by an employee strike, the museum is now welcoming the public to see its €20.1 million ($28.4 million) renovation that was financed by the museum...
After working as an art teacher, Rizvan Rahman embarked on a second career as an art dealer in 2004, setting up business in Leicester under the name Haslam and Purdey and specializing in modern British art. He dealt with galleries and auction houses across...
