The New York Times, Peter Libbey, 03.03.2020: “Carmen Herrera Mural to Grace East Harlem” The artist’s design will be executed by students from Publicolor, an arts and education program, and Manhattan East School for Arts and Academics. Soon you won’t have to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Museum of Modern Art to see artwork by…
Slate.com, Molly Olmstead, 25.01.2020: “Fire Thought to Have Destroyed 85,000 Historic Artifacts in New York Chinatown Museum” The Museum of Chinese in America on Friday said that a fire has likely destroyed all of its priceless 85,000-piece collection telling the story of Chinese migration to the United States. According to officials at the New York…
Le 13 octobre prochain, Sotheby’s New York mettra à la vente une centaine de lots provenant de la cave de Robert Drouhin, de la célèbre famille négociante du Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. La nouvelle ravit les amateurs et collectionneurs de Grands Crus, qui ont déjà pû avoir accès à quelques trésors de cette cave en…
The Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that it has received a remarkable promised gift of over 400 works by Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997). The Museum and the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation have forged an agreement that will bring the two organizations into a close and ongoing partnership and will make the Whitney a focus for Lichtenstein…
Le marchand d’art mulhousien Alain Dreyfus s’attaque à la maison de vente d’œuvres d’art Christie’s. En 2008, il avait acheté un tableau d’Alfred Sisley, qui s’est avéré avoir été volé par les nazis à la famille Lindon-Citroën, en 1940. Il consent à restituer la toile, mais exige d’être remboursé, avec des intérêts, par la maison…
Leaning on romance of Rockefeller name and its appeal to international and first-time buyers, the auction house triumphed in its marathon week of sales Christie’s brilliant lesson in storytelling paid off in its auctions of the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller this week in New York. Every single one of almost 900 lots offered…
Artnet News, Eileen Kinsella, 24.04.2018: “Is This the Next Auction Supernova? A Rare Modigliani Nude Carries a Record $150 Million Estimate at Sotheby’s” The painting, which was recently on view at Tate Modern, is reportedly owned by Irish billionaire horse breeder John Magnier. A reclining nude by Amedeo Modigliani is estimated to fetch in the region of $150…
Blouin Art Info, Mark Beech, 01.04.2018, “Picasso self-portrait set to fetch $70 million at Christie’s auction” Christie’s has raised the game with its May auctions with its announcement that it is to sell a Pablo Picasso self-portrait, seen as making as much as $70 million. “Le Marin,” an oil-on-canvas work executed on October 28, 1943, has long…
