Beloved Brancusi Sculpture Can Be Removed from Paris Cemetery After Legal Battle
The heirs of a person buried there are seeking once more to get the work after being barred from doing so.
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French Collector Sues Dealer, Insurance Companies, Alleging Damage to $22.5 M. Brancusi Sculpture
Marc Baradel has claimed that a piece in its holdings has had its "value reduced" as a result.
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A guide to the next seven days.
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From the Archives: James Johnson Sweeney on Constantin Brancusi’s ‘Imaginative Subtlety,’ in 1955
Few European artists in the first half of the 20th century worked in as minimal a mode as Constantin Brancusi, whose sculptures offered combinations of stripped-down materials that, in the artist’s…
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New Records for Malevich, Brancusi at Strong $415.8 M. Christie’s Impressionist-Modern Sale
Only four of the 37 lots on offer failed to find buyers at the auction, which seem unhindered by the withdrawal of two pictures reportedly consigned by embattled casino magnate Steve Wynn.
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Christie’s to Offer Brancusi Bronze at May Imp-Mod Evening Sale That Could Sell for $30 M.
The auction consignments keep rolling in. After Sotheby’s and Phillips revealed possible record-breakers in the realm of contemporary yesterday, Christie’s has announced a major lot that could lead…
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THURSDAY, MAY 7 Opening: "China: Through the Looking Glass" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art This year's Met Ball honors China's longstanding influence on the fashion industry—from Chinese costumes…
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Despite improved relations with the US, Cuba is still refusing to return seized art. [The Art Newspaper] Labour leader Ed Miliband has promised to set up a Prime Minister's Committee on the Arts…
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Pulp Fictions: The Art of Zarina
Paper—sculpted, cast, punctured, sewn into—is the primary medium of Zarina, the Indian-born artist who weaves into her work Urdu calligraphy and the spirit of literature from around the…
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