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Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Sale on May 4 and 5, 2015

Among the star works from the Whitehead Collection to be featured within the May Evening Sale are Amedeo Modigliani’sPortrait deBéatrice Hastings from 1916 (US$7-10million) and Claude Monet’s Paysage...

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Édouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies Bergère, Analyzed

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Chaim Soutine: SHOCKING PARIS: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of...

Upon fleeing the religious persecution, political oppression, and economic hardship of Eastern Europe in the first years of the 20th century, many immigrant artists eventually settled in Paris. Some of...

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Christie’s Sale of American Art for 2015 on March 25th, 2015

Gifford Beal’s Lobstermen on the Shore (estimate: $100,000 – 150,000) is a powerful example of the artist’s work from his summer trips to Rockport, Massachusetts during the 1920s and 1930s.  In the...

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Hieronymus Bosch. The Legacy

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden March 19 to June 15, 2015Enthusiasm for the fantastic visual world of painter Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1450–1516) remains as strong today as ever. Characterised by a...

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National Gallery of Art Reunites Rubens' Portraits of the Three Magi for the...

This spring three paintings of the Magi, or wise men, by the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) will be reunited at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, for the first time in more than...

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Rogier van der Weyden at Museo del Prado

March 24 to June 28, 2015 The Museo del Prado and the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado present “Rogier van der Weyden”, an exhibition on the man who was probably one of the most influential...

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Dahl and Friedrich. Romantic Landscapes

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden February 6 to May 3, 2015Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) and Johan Christian Dahl (1788–1857) are both well-known as protagonists of Nordic landscape painting...

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Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) Painting Arcadia at the Musée d'Orsay

17 March – 19 July 2015 Practising art in its multifarious forms Bonnard advocated a basically decorative aesthetic. His acute sense of light, his fascination for the bright colours and utopia of the...

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10 Picasso Masterpieces from the Kunstmuseum Basel at the Museo del Prado

March 18 to September 14, 2015 For six months, the Museo del Prado’s Central Gallery will be showing ten masterpieces by Picasso from the holdings of the Kunstmuseum Basel, an institution that houses...

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Frida Kahlo / Diego Rivera Art in Fusion at the Musée de l’Orangerie

9 October 2013 - 13 January 2014Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Autorretrato con Traje de Terciopelo, Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress, 1926 Private collection © Photo Francisco Kochen/ © ADAGP, Paris 2013This...

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Van Gogh / Artaud The Man Suicided by Society at the Musée d'Orsay

11 March – 6 July 2014 Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Portrait de l’artiste au chevalet [Portrait of the Artist at His Easel], Paris, December 1887-February1888, oil on canvas,65.1 x 50 cm © Amsterdam,...

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Lyonel Feiniger at Auction

BiographyLyonel Feininger was born into a family of musicians in New York in 1871. Initially trained as a violinist, he went to Germany in 1887 to continue his musical education but soon switched to...

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CHRISTIE’S TO OFFER PICASSO’S ICONIC MASTERPIECE OF THE 1950s: Les Femmes...

THE FINAL AND UNDISPUTABLE CULMINATION OF THE FAMOUS FEMMES D'ALGER SERIES PREVIOUSLY IN THE COLLECTION OF VICTOR AND SALLY GANZ  SIGNATURE WORK TO LEAD CHRISTIE’S Looking Forward to the Past:A Curated...

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Paul Klee at Auction

SOTHEBY'S Impressionist and Modern Art February 4, 2003 Two rare and important works from a private European collection by Paul Klee (1879-1940), spanning the artist's entire working career at the...

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Maurice de Vlaminck at Auction and in National Galleries

Sotheby's 2014Maurice de VlaminckAU COIN DE LA RUELot. Vendu 36,250 GBPMaurice de VlaminckPAYSAGELOT SOLD. 87,500 USDMaurice de VlaminckRUE DE VILLAGE SOUS LA NEIGELOT SOLD. 77,500 USMaurice de...

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Titian at Auction

 Sotheby’s Sale of Important Old Master Paintings January 29 & 30, 2009Fourteen works from Italian businessman Luigi Koelliker's collection will be included in the January sale, led by Titian's...

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Velázquez at the Grand Palais 25 March – 13 July 2015

An exhibition produced jointly by the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais and the Musée du Louvre, in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna(A first stage of the event, in a...

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Honoré Daumier at auction

National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC): Honoré Daumier's career was one of the most unusual in the history of nineteenth-century art. Famous in his time as France's best-known caricaturist, he...

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Kees van Dongen

Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art in New York November 7 & 8, 2007The evening sale featured fifteen works from an important European collection highlighted by a spectacular offering of works...

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