London Contemporary Sales Surge Again
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Wayne Event
Pop artist’s unauthorized Wayne portrait doubles expectations Read More
Snapshot of a Vibrant Market
Fall photography auctions draw wide range of buyers Read More
Romanians of the Day
Romanian artists are in the spotlight all over the world Read More
On the Hunt for Hunt? Try Park Avenue
NEW YORK—The next East Coast gallery exhibition of the sculptural works of Bryan Hunt will take place in Spring of 2012 at Manhattan’s Danese Gallery, but New Yorkers have other opportunities to see his work beforehand. Read More
Niki-pedia: de Saint Phalle gets a retrospective
NEW YORK— On Sept. 7, the Nohra Haime Gallery opened a 44-year retrospective of work by Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), the French artist who is best known for her whimsical, brightly-painted polyester sculptures. Read More
Potential Restitution Claim for Renoir Prompts Preemptive Suit
NEW YORK—Representatives for the estate of a Chicago couple who owned a landscape painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Illinois last month after an attempt to sell the work at auction was blocked when the auction house discovered evidence that the work might be one of several sold under duress in Europe in the 1930s because of the Nazi regime. Read More
‘Conversion’ Presents Thorny Issues for Art Owners
NEW YORK—An art collector who placed most of his collection in storage with a Manhattan dealer has brought a lawsuit against the dealer for selling his artwork, valued at more than $5 million, and failing to remit the proceeds to the collector. Read More
Chapmans’ Marked-Up Old Master Brings $1.2 Million
LONDON—An Old Master painting that sold at auction for £39,000 ($80,000) less than four years ago, recently sold for £750,000 ($1.2 million) after having been altered by contemporary artists Jake and Dinos Chapman and included in their latest exhibition at White Cube gallery, London. Read More
Saatchi’s Answers Raise Questions
Art-world figures take issue with recap on ’80s resales that reclusive collector offers in new book. Read More
