Notizie dal mercato dell’arte blue-chip

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  • David Hockney dies at 88 The British painter died after a career that included sustained museum recognition and a former living-artist auction record of $90.3 million.Reuters · reuters.com

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10 July 2008

  • Defendant Pleads Guilty in Monet, Sisley, and Brueghel Painting Theft Case Bernard Jean Ternus pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport four paintings stolen from the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Nice and to visa fraud. The works by Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Jan Brueghel the Elder were recovered after conspirators negotiated an uncompleted 3 million euro sale with undercover officers.LawFuel · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Claude Monet

10 July 2007

  • Hirst Sets Living-Artist Record as Bacon Tops Sotheby's London Sale Sotheby's London contemporary evening sale realized GBP 72.4 million across 66 sold lots. Damien Hirst's Lullaby Spring sold for GBP 9.6 million, then a living-artist auction record, while Francis Bacon's Self Portrait achieved the sale's top price at GBP 21.6 million.ARTnews · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Francis Bacon

22 June 2007

  • Damien Hirst's Lullaby Spring Sets £9.65 Million Living-Artist Record Damien Hirst's Lullaby Spring sold for GBP 9.65 million at Sotheby's in London, making Hirst the world's most expensive living artist at auction at that time. The result followed a GBP 7.86 million Christie's sale of a Lucian Freud portrait, surpassed Jasper Johns's GBP 8.74 million benchmark, and shared the sale with a Francis Bacon self-portrait that brought GBP 21.58 million. Four days of Sotheby's and Christie's auctions totaled GBP 414 million, while five charity works in the Hirst sale brought GBP 1.5 million.The Times · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Damien Hirst

3 December 2006

  • Edward Hopper's Hotel Window Sets a $26.8 Million Auction Record Edward Hopper's Hotel Window sold for a record USD 26.8 million in Sotheby's sale of American paintings. The same sale included Norman Rockwell's Breaking Home Ties, which brought USD 15.4 million after the original was discovered behind a false wall in its owner's Vermont home; the article also cites Rockwell's prior USD 9.2 million record and the owner's USD 900 purchase.Deseret News · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Edward Hopper

3 November 2005

  • Toulouse-Lautrec's The Laundress Sells for $22.4 Million at Christie's Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's painting The Laundress sold at a Christie's modern and Impressionist art auction in New York for USD 22.4 million. The packet reports that the result established an artist record and notes Monet and Cezanne works as sale context without giving their exact prices.WomenOnly · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

12 July 2005

  • MoMA Acquires Robert Rauschenberg's Rebus The Museum of Modern Art acquired Robert Rauschenberg's 1955 combine painting Rebus through a partial and promised gift from Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder and a museum purchase. The nearly eleven-foot, three-panel work was expected to enter MoMA's fourth-floor galleries in mid-July 2005.Antiques and The Arts Weekly · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Robert Rauschenberg

30 April 2005

  • Malevich Heirs Clear Initial US Court Hurdle in Amsterdam Restitution Claim A federal court in Washington, DC refused to dismiss the Malevich heirs' claim against the City of Amsterdam over fourteen works held by the Stedelijk Museum and loaned to museums in New York and Houston. The court treated the loans as potentially commercial activity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and left factual questions about Amsterdam's US contacts and Dutch limitation law unresolved. The heirs alleged that all eighty-four Malevich works then held by the Stedelijk had been illegally expropriated in the 1950s.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Kazimir Malevich

19 April 2005

  • Kozlowski Bought More Than $14 Million in Monet, Renoir and Other Paintings Art dealer Christine A. Berry testified that L. Dennis Kozlowski bought paintings valued at more than $14 million on three occasions in 2001, including works by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The purchases included three paintings agreed at Richard Green Gallery for $1.975 million, an 1883 Monet oil bought for $3.95 million and four works bought for $8.8 million. The testimony formed part of Kozlowski's New York criminal trial over alleged misuse of Tyco compensation and loans.Foster's Daily Democrat · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1 February 2005

  • Saatchi Collection Confirms Damien Hirst Shark Sale Amid Price Doubts The Saatchi Collection said it had sold Damien Hirst’s 1991 shark sculpture The physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living in a deal negotiated by Larry Gagosian and reported at $12 million, with a £6.5 million equivalent, although traders questioned the figure and the final proceeds were undisclosed. The article identified Steve Cohen as the understood buyer, noted his estimated $2 billion net worth and linked him to Picasso’s Boy with a pipe, which had sold for $104 million at Sotheby’s New York. It compared Hirst’s reported level with Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Brice Marden and Jasper Johns, citing Marden’s Cold mountain series at $10 million, the shark’s £50,000 production charge and a believed $4 million recent sale of Hirst’s Away from the flock.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Damien Hirst

6 January 2005

  • Matisse and Picasso Exhibition Draws 87,000 Visitors in Raleigh The N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh reported that more than 87,000 people had visited Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris since its October opening, and director Larry Wheeler raised his attendance forecast to 110,000. General admission was $12, memberships had increased nearly 40 percent to about 14,000, and the museum expected the exhibition to turn a profit. Wheeler said the show would more than recover the $1 million cost of bringing it from the Baltimore Museum of Art, while timed tickets and waiting lines reflected sustained demand.Wilmington Star-News · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Henri Matisse

14 December 2004

  • Marc Chagall Forgeries Lead to Ely Sakhai's $12.5 Million Restitution Manhattan dealer Ely Sakhai pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy after commissioning forged works attributed to Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Klee and Paul Gaugin. Prosecutors said the fifteen-year scheme sold counterfeits for $7 million, largely to buyers in Asia, before auction-house representatives detected an original and a forgery offered at competing sales. Sakhai agreed to pay $12.5 million in restitution and forfeit eleven paintings.New York Post · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Marc Chagall

6 November 2004

  • Gauguin's Maternidad II Leads Six Artist Records at Sotheby's New York Paul Gauguin's Maternidad II sold for USD 39.2 million, reported as EUR 30.7 million, and led a USD 194.28 million Sotheby's New York Impressionist and Modern auction in which Amedeo Modigliani, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore and other artists set records. The complete report also records results for Constantin Brancusi and Pablo Picasso, Christie's weekly total, and historical comparators including Picasso's Muchacho con pipa. Only Gauguin is promoted to the frozen packet artist tag set; all other creators remain source-supported object context.El País · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Paul Gauguin

4 November 2004

  • Monet's London Parliament Painting Sells at Christie's New York Claude Monet's 1904 London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog sold to financier Samir Traboulsi for a source-reported unqualified $20.1 million at Christie's in New York after a $12 million to $18 million estimate. The report also records the $128.2 million first-day sale total, several named Christie’s results, and Sotheby's estimates for works from an unidentified collector and Hester Diamond. Because the source uses unqualified dollar symbols, all 18 scalar claims remain review-level currency holds and the strict record does not assign USD.TODAY.com · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Claude Monet

27 October 2004

  • Pablo Picasso's Femme en Blanc Seized in Chicago Restitution Case US authorities seized Pablo Picasso's circa-1922 Femme en Blanc, also called Femme Assise, from its owner in Chicago on October 21, 2004 after a complaint alleged that it was stolen property moved across state lines. ABC News reported the painting's value as USD 10 million and traced its history from Carlota Landsberg's 1920s purchase through alleged Nazi looting in Paris in 1940, a 1975 sale to Marilynn and James Alsdorf, and its reappearance at a Los Angeles exhibition in 2001. The seizure marks an enforcement phase in an unresolved restitution dispute, not a final ownership ruling.ABC News · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

31 August 2004

  • Andy Warhol Archive Enters Two-Year Exclusive Corbis Licensing Deal Corbis signed a two-year exclusive agreement with the Andy Warhol Foundation for digital images of Warhol and his work, launching a website with more than 500 images across his career. The foundation permitted unusually broad commercial modification, while Warhol editorial use cost double Corbis's normal rate and commercial rates were higher. The foundation would receive royalties for its grant program; Corbis reported around $140 million in prior-year revenue and museum royalties up to around $75,000 annually. The deal sat within Corbis's wider archive and museum licensing network, and both unqualified-dollar scalars remain null-currency, range-ineligible private holds.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Andy Warhol

31 August 2004

  • Henri Matisse Leads Three-House London Modern Auction Report Henri Matisse's Odalisque au Fauteuil Noir led the June 2004 London sales at GBP 6,613,250, ahead of Modigliani, Van Gogh, Kandinsky and other named results at Sotheby's and Christie's. Michael Steinhardt's fifteen Schiele works realized GBP 9,900,000, while a Private Family Trust group lost value and Pissarro's Le repos des Moissonneurs exceeded estimate. Bonhams sold Modigliani's Cristina for GBP 1,546,650 after extended authentication review and also reported Gormley and Malevich results. All ten completed object-level GBP results use the official 31 August 2004 ECB USD normalization; aggregates, estimates, historical comparators and non-art values remain filter-ineligible.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Henri Matisse

31 July 2004

  • Picasso Restitution Claim Reaches California Jurisdiction Review California's Supreme Court agreed to review whether state courts could hear Thomas Bennigson's claim to Pablo Picasso's 1922 Femme en blanc, also called Woman in White. Bennigson alleged Nazis stole the painting from his grandmother, while James and Marilyn Alsdorf had bought it from a New York dealer in 1975. Marilyn Alsdorf sent it to Los Angeles dealer David Tunkl for exhibition and sale in 2002, then ordered its return to Chicago after Tunkl relayed Art Loss Register provenance research. The painting was still at Los Angeles International Airport when Bennigson sued, and the report records a disputed jurisdiction and ownership phase rather than a final restitution ruling.Los Angeles Times · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

22 June 2004

  • Amedeo Modigliani Leads Sotheby's £61 Million London Modern Sale Amedeo Modigliani's 1918 Garçon à la Veste Bleue sold for £6,165,600 as the top lot in a 60-lot Sotheby's London auction that raised more than £61 million. Vincent van Gogh's Deux Crabes brought £5 million against a central £1.5 million presale estimate, while Egon Schiele's Liebespaar fetched almost £2 million, a record for a work on paper by the artist. Pierre Auguste Renoir's Portrait de Rapha Mantre was withdrawn after missing its reserve, and Pablo Picasso's prior-month £58 million Garçon à la Pipe result remained the world-record comparator. Claude Monet was represented in the sale roster without a named lot, while a two-day Christie's London sale was still forthcoming.The Guardian · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Amedeo Modigliani

15 June 2004

  • Picasso Heir Investigates 1949 Sale of Boy with a Pipe Historian Julius H. Schoeps, a descendant of the original owners of Pablo Picasso's 1904 Boy with a Pipe, consulted lawyers after its source-reported unqualified $104 million sale to determine how his family lost ownership. Schoeps argued that the painting's 1949 sale morally breached his great-uncle's 1935 will, which sought to keep the work and other paintings in the Berlin family and away from Nazi control. The report describes an inquiry and moral-breach allegation, not a filed claim or adjudicated ownership finding.Artforum · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

12 May 2004

  • Jackson Pollock’s Number 12, 1949 Sets Christie’s Auction Record Jackson Pollock's Number 12, 1949 sold at Christie's in New York for $11.65 million, setting a world auction record for the artist; the source does not identify the dollar currency or premium treatment. Christie's postwar and contemporary art sale totaled $102.11 million, a house record, with that unqualified-dollar aggregate also excluded from artwork-value filtering.The Washington Post · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Jackson Pollock

6 May 2004

  • Pablo Picasso's Garçon à la Pipe Brings $104.168 Million at Sotheby's Pablo Picasso's 1905 Garçon à la Pipe sold at Sotheby's New York for USD 104,168,000 including commission, after an anonymous buyer prevailed at a $93 million hammer price. The Greentree Foundation's 34 lots brought more than $189 million, and the painting's Whitney provenance included a reported $30,000 purchase in 1950. The same sale set records for William Blake's The Good and Evil Angels Struggling for Possession of a Child at $3.92 million, Raoul Dufy's Fête à Sainte-Adresse at $3.14 million, Jean-Frédéric Bazille's Pots de Fleurs at $5.32 million and Alfred Munnings's The Red Prince Mare at upward of $7.7 million. Except for the explicitly identified USD Picasso total and its approximate CAD 143 million publisher equivalent, the source's dollar figures do not establish an ISO currency.The Globe and Mail · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

2 May 2004

  • Pablo Picasso’s Boy With a Pipe Leads More Than $500 Million New York Preview Sotheby’s expected Pablo Picasso’s Boy With a Pipe, consigned by the Whitney estate after about half a century, to fetch $70 million in a $140-million sale whose proceeds would benefit the Greentree Foundation. The lot led a New York preview of more than $500 million at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips, alongside Monet and Gris estate consignments and historical Whitney results. The feature also examined Museum of Modern Art deaccessions for its acquisition fund and the Anderson Fine Arts Center’s proposed sale of Edward Ruscha’s Damage, including the museum-code concern over use of proceeds. All current figures remained prospective, historical comparators stayed distinct, and no ISO dollar currency was stated.Los Angeles Times · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

26 April 2004

  • Jasper Johns Leads ARTnews Living-Artist Price Ranking The Times reported ARTnews's ten-place living-artist ranking: Jasper Johns's Gray Numbers at $40 million led Cy Twombly's Lepanto above $20 million, followed by Rauschenberg, Marden, Nauman, Richter, Freud, Koons, Serra and Stella. Named works included Factum II, Large Interior W11, Henry Moore Bound to Fail, Michael Jackson and Bubbles and Wake, while Richter's 1960s realist paintings and Stella's early paintings were priced as groups. The report also placed seven near-ranked artists at a $4 million threshold and explained that private-sale secrecy, scarcity and auction disclosure complicated market-value comparisons. It identified David Geffen as Gray Numbers' buyer and compared Koons's original price, Van Gogh's 1990 record and Sotheby's estimate for Picasso's Boy With a Pipe.The Times · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Jasper Johns

1 April 2004

  • MoMA Offers Nine Picasso and Pollock Works at Christie's The Museum of Modern Art offered nine permanent-collection works at Christie's New York sales scheduled for May 4 and 11, 2004, with an unqualified-dollar high estimate of $27.9 million. The group included works by Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock, while prior MoMA disposals included Polo crowd at $27.5 million, Man with a guitar reportedly at $10 million and 350 photographs at $4 million. MoMA said the proceeds would fund acquisitions, and every dollar claim remains a private null-currency hold because the source does not establish an ISO dollar currency.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

31 March 2004

  • Chagall's La nappe mauve Anchors Ely Sakhai Forgery Allegations The Art Newspaper reported allegations that New York dealer Ely Sakhai bought authentic paintings, sold forged versions and later sold the genuine works at auction. The complaint identified Marc Chagall's La nappe mauve, Paul Gauguin's Vase de fleurs (lilas) and Paul Klee's Palaste, including a Sotheby's and Christie's catalogue collision followed by expert examination and withdrawal of the declared forgery. Sakhai was released on $1 million bail, Sotheby's paid him $310,000 for the authentic Gauguin sale and the genuine Klee had been bought for $190,000; all three claims remain private null-currency holds and all alleged conduct remains attributed.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Marc Chagall

5 March 2004

  • Whitney Acquires 456 Ed Ruscha Photographic Works The Whitney Museum of American Art acquired 456 photographic objects by Ed Ruscha through a partial purchase and partial artist donation, with support from the Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Foundation and Tom and Diane Tuft. The group included original prints from seven photographic books, 16 unpublished images made for Twentysix Gasoline Stations and more than 300 vintage photographs from Ruscha's 1961 European tour. The acquisition made the Whitney the principal repository for Ruscha's photographic work and supported a publication and exhibition planned for June 24, 2004.WANAFOTO · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Ed Ruscha

16 February 2004

  • Bellagio Guarantees Boston MFA One Million Dollars for Monet Loan Boston's Museum of Fine Arts loaned 21 Claude Monet paintings to the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas for Monet: Masterworks From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bellagio guaranteed the museum at least one million dollars, and the exhibition drew 18,000 visitors during its first 10 days after opening on January 30. At a fifteen-dollar ticket price, the source projected that museum revenue could exceed one million dollars before the exhibition closed in September, but all dollar figures remain private null-currency holds because the source does not establish an ISO dollar currency.Artforum · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Claude Monet

1 February 2004

  • Alberto Giacometti Estate Trial Advances as 2002 Bust Result Resurfaces Alberto Giacometti's estate dispute moved toward trial in Paris after hearing papers said 18 works had sold for FFr42 million (£4.7 million; publisher-equivalent $8.2 million) and alleged that Jacques Tajan retained about FFr8 million (£910,000; $1.3 million). The papers also questioned FFr2.5 million in fees paid to executor Roland Dumas; both men denied the charges and no hearing date had been set. A separate caption reported that a posthumous bronze bust of Diego Giacometti sold in 2002 for the ambiguous notation E654,000, twice its estimate.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Alberto Giacometti

18 January 2004

  • Pablo Picasso Leads Whitney Collection’s Planned Sotheby’s Sale Sotheby's announced a May 5 New York sale of 44 Whitney paintings held by the Greentree Foundation, estimated in aggregate at an unqualified-dollar $140 million to $190 million. Picasso's Boy With a Pipe led at $70 million, with Manet's Races at the Bois de Boulogne at $20 million to $30 million and two Degas racing scenes at $5 million to $7 million each. The report compared van Gogh's Portrait of Dr Gachet at $82,500,000 and Sotheby's separate $90 million Forbes Fabergé consignment. It also traced the Whitneys' museum history and Betsey Whitney's more-than-$300-million four-museum bequest; all twelve dollar scalars remain null-currency, range-ineligible private holds.The Tuscaloosa News · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

30 September 2003

  • Yayoi Kusama’s No.G Anchors an Eight-Artist Japanese Market Survey The Art Newspaper profiled Yayoi Kusama with Nobuyoshi Araki, Tatsuo Miyajima, Yasumasa Morimura, Mariko Mori, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugimoto through galleries, asking prices and auction highs. Named works included No.G, Megadeath, Wave UFO, Togari-kun and Henry V; reported results included GBP 9,600, GBP 26,450 and GBP 38,400, while unqualified-dollar claims remain null-currency holds. The survey reported François Pinault as Togari-kun's buyer and tied the eight profiles to Sotheby's, Christie's, Phillips and their named galleries. Its emerging roster covered Ai Yamaguchi, Zon Ito, Motohiko Odani with Yutaka Sone, Tam Ochiai and Jun'ya Yamaide's Project No-28, plus every stated gallery or exhibition relationship.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Yayoi Kusama

10 August 2003

  • Caravaggio's Stolen Nativity Tops Italy's Most-Wanted Art List Caravaggio's 1609 Nativity With SS. Francis and Lawrence remained first on Italy's most-wanted list of stolen art when The Washington Post reported on it on August 10, 2003. The painting was stolen from the Oratorio di San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily, on October 19, 1969. The report described one of Caravaggio's last works as worth 'tens of millions of dollars,' a qualitative estimate rather than a stated price.The Washington Post · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Caravaggio

21 July 2003

  • Thrift-Store Painting Attributed to Jackson Pollock An abstract painting bought by Teri Horton for five dollars at a southern California thrift store may be an authentic Jackson Pollock. The article reports that forensic art expert Peter Paul Biro found a fingerprint attributed to Pollock on the canvas and concluded that the painting was genuine.Artforum · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Jackson Pollock

23 June 2003

  • Norton Museum Opens Nessel Wing with Picasso and Pollock Works on View The Norton Museum of Art opened the 42,000-square-foot Gail and Melvin Nessel Wing, adding 14 galleries and increasing gallery space by 75 percent for permanent-collection displays and exhibitions. The report says 75 percent of an unqualified-dollar $35 million capital goal had been raised, while a prior expansion cost an unqualified-dollar $30 million and soft-cover collection catalogs were priced at $35 each. The redisplay included Pablo Picasso's 1917 La Guitare and Jackson Pollock's 1945 Night Mist, alongside other named European and American works and Red Grooms's 75-work portrait exhibition.Antiques and The Arts Weekly · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

1 June 2003

  • Lichtenstein’s Blonde Waiting Faces Federal Tax-Recovery Suit Roy Lichtenstein’s Blonde Waiting was targeted in a federal civil action seeking paintings or money from Larry Gagosian and three partners over taxes tied to their 1990 purchase of Richard Weisman’s 62-work collection. The complaint alleged that 58 works were immediately resold for an $18 million gain, while four paintings were retained and later subjected to tax liens. The government said the original $6.7 million tax debt had reached $26.5 million with interest and penalties by January 31, 2003; the article did not report a final judgment and did not identify an ISO dollar currency.Los Angeles Times · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Roy Lichtenstein

8 May 2003

  • Steve Wynn's Renoir Purchase Frames Sotheby's Mixed New York Sale Steve Wynn bought Pierre Auguste Renoir's Dans les Roses (Portrait de Madame Leon Clapisson) for $23.5 million at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern art sale in New York and said it would go on public display with his Las Vegas collection. Three Museum of Fine Arts, Boston consignments brought about $14 million toward the planned purchase of Edgar Degas's The Duchessa di Montejasi With Her Daughters Elena and Camilla. The 39-lot sale totaled $65.6 million against a $70.9 million low estimate, with 11 works unsold, including Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Painting, Rectangle and Circle at a $5 million to $7 million estimate and Alberto Giacometti's La Clairiere at $8 million to $10 million. All dollar figures remain private null-currency holds because the source does not identify an ISO dollar currency.Los Angeles Times · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pierre-Auguste Renoir

7 May 2003

  • Picasso's Nu Accroupi at Center of Alleged $4.5 Million Unauthorized Sale Art dealer Michel Cohen was arrested in Brazil over allegations that he sold Pablo Picasso's Nu Accroupi for USD 4.5 million without Richard Gray Gallery's knowledge, leaving the gallery with nothing from the sale. Prosecutors also alleged that he collected USD 7.5 million for an unnamed Claude Monet painting that he never delivered.Deseret News · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

30 April 2003

  • Roy Lichtenstein Works Anchor Gagosian Federal Tax and Title Suit Roy Lichtenstein, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko works were tied to a federal civil suit over a 1990 art transaction involving Gagosian Gallery, Peter Brant and Contemporary Art Holding Corporation. The United States sought $26.5 million in alleged overdue taxes after a $32 million purchase of 62 paintings and $20 million resale of 58, with about $17 million in capital gains and about $6.7 million in reported tax liability. Lawrence Gagosian and Brant each contributed $500,000, while separate but equal $41,425 monthly interest and art-lease charges were also alleged; all nine dollar claims remain null-currency and range-ineligible. Gagosian Gallery denied a secret tax-avoidance scheme and described a title dispute over three works.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Roy Lichtenstein

12 February 2003

  • Painting Believed to Be an Early van Gogh Sells in Tokyo for $550,800 An unsigned portrait of a peasant woman, first thought worth less than $100, was described as apparently a previously unknown early work by Vincent van Gogh before its auction at an unnamed gallery in Tokyo's Ginza district. Bidding opened at $125,200 and ended less than four minutes later at $550,800. A broker bought it for Toshio Nakamoto, identified as the head of a museum in western Japan.Los Angeles Times · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Vincent van Gogh

10 January 2003

  • Descendant Sues to Recover Nazi-Seized Picasso Painting A court was asked to decide custody of Pablo Picasso's Femme en Blanc, held in a private Chicago collection. The painting had belonged to a Jewish couple in Berlin before it was seized by the Nazis, and the last living descendant of the original owners sued for its recovery.New England Public Media · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

24 December 2002

  • Picasso Heir Seeks Return of Allegedly Nazi-Looted Femme en blanc Thomas C. Bennigson asked a Los Angeles court to order collector Marilyn Alsdorf to return Pablo Picasso's 1922 Femme en blanc, also called Femme assise, which his family alleged Nazis looted in 1940, or pay an unqualified $10 million to retain it. The Art Loss Register located the painting after a 2001 inquiry, and the report said James Alsdorf had bought it from Stephen Hahn Gallery in New York in 1975 for an unqualified $357,000. A temporary restraining order was issued after the painting had already returned to Chicago, while ownership and jurisdiction remained contested.Los Angeles Times · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

15 November 2002

  • Lichtenstein's Happy Tears Sets an Artist Record at Christie's New York Roy Lichtenstein's 1964 painting Happy Tears sold at Christie's New York for an unqualified $7.1 million, setting an artist auction record and surpassing the unqualified $6 million paid for Kiss II in 1990. The unqualified $66.9 million postwar and contemporary sale also set records for seven artists, including David Hockney, whose Portrait of Nick Wilder sold for an unqualified $2.8 million, and Laura Owens, whose untitled painting brought an unqualified $47,800. The source does not identify an ISO dollar currency for any of its seven explicit monetary obligations.Los Angeles Times · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Roy Lichtenstein

12 November 2002

  • Picasso Leads Christie's New York Day Sale at $889,500 Pablo Picasso's 1964 Le peintre et son modèle sold for an unqualified $889,500 as the top lot in Christie's November 7 Impressionist and Modern Art day sale at Rockefeller Center, which totaled an unqualified $20,130,055. André Derain's 1899 Le jardin followed at an unqualified $592,500, and Marc Chagall's circa-1967 La piste du cirque brought an unqualified $526,500. Combined with the previous evening, Christie's fall 2002 Impressionist and Modern Art sales realized an unqualified $87,643,055, but the source did not identify an ISO dollar currency for any figure.Antiques and The Arts Weekly · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

27 August 2002

  • Sotheby's Defends Rubens Attribution Amid Pigment and Wood Questions Sotheby's rejected media doubts about the attribution of Peter Paul Rubens's The Massacre of the Innocents, which the report says was sold in London on July 10 and reportedly bought by collector David Thomson. Critics cited a pigment said not to have been used by Rubens and questions about the wood support, while Sotheby's said it knew of no change in the views of experts who had backed the attribution. The article describes the painting as worth an unqualified $120 million, so the figure is preserved only as a private null-currency hold rather than normalized to USD.Artforum · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Peter Paul Rubens

11 July 2002

  • Rubens's Massacre of the Innocents Sets a £49.5 Million Old Master Auction Record Peter Paul Rubens's The Massacre of the Innocents sold at Sotheby's in London for £49,506,650 including buyer's premium, surpassing the £49,005,059 paid for Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Doctor Gachet. Sotheby's had received the work as an attribution to Jan van den Hoecke before research and provenance work identified it as a Rubens. The report also noted a £38.8 million Impressionist and Modern Art sale and an unattributed sculpture associated with Gian Lorenzo Bernini that rose from a £180,000 estimate to more than £2 million.The Independent · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Peter Paul Rubens

3 July 2002

  • Kandinsky's Improvisation Nr. 10 Remains at Beyeler Foundation After Settlement The Ernst Beyeler Foundation and the heirs of Sophie Lissitzky-Kueppers reached an out-of-court settlement under which Wassily Kandinsky's 1910 oil painting Improvisation Nr. 10 would remain at the foundation in Basel. Nazi Germany had confiscated the painting in 1937, and the parties agreed not to disclose the settlement terms.SWI swissinfo.ch · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Wassily Kandinsky

30 June 2002

  • Potanin Transfers Malevich's Black Square to the Hermitage Vladimir Potanin bought Kazimir Malevich's Black Square on a White Background for an unqualified $1 million and transferred it to Russia's national museum fund for exhibition at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. The work had been withdrawn from an April 13 Moscow auction after the Ministry of Culture claimed it formed part of Russia's cultural heritage and required a direct sale to a state museum. The report describes this transfer as the conclusion of the painting's journey but does not identify an ISO dollar currency.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Kazimir Malevich

25 June 2002

  • Picasso's Nu au Collier Fetches Nearly £16 Million at Christie's Pablo Picasso's 1932 Nu au Collier sold at Christie's for nearly £16 million after an estimate of up to £9 million, becoming London's highest-priced painting of the year at that point. The report compared the result with Claude Monet's Nympheas at £13.4 million and Picasso's £38.4 million record for Femme aux Bras Croises. Five of eight Picasso works sold for £18.4 million, while the full 43-work sale raised almost £40 million.The Independent · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

31 May 2002

31 May 2002

  • Basquiat's Profit I Leads Christie's Sale Before Hamiltons Exhibition The Art Newspaper reported that Jean-Michel Basquiat's Profit I led Christie's May 14 Post-War and contemporary sale at $5,509,500, with a publisher-reported equivalent of £3,773,630. The work came from Lars Ulrich's collection, which supplied two major Basquiat paintings to recent press coverage. Hamiltons was preparing an exhibition of eight major paintings plus works on paper from private collections for June 20 through August 9.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Jean-Michel Basquiat

9 May 2002

  • Brancusi Sculpture Record Leads $223.6 Million New York Auction Week UPI reported that Christie's and Sotheby's Impressionist and modern sales totaled $223.6 million, led by Constantin Brancusi's Danaide at $18.1 million and Paul Cézanne's Pitcher and Plate of Pears at $16.7 million. Paul Gauguin's Tahitian Women Near the Palms sold below estimate, while works by René Magritte, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Alberto Giacometti, Juan Gris, Piet Mondrian and Joan Miró supplied other major results. Christie's sold 33 of 46 lots for $97.6 million and Sotheby's sold 52 of 55 for $126 million. The article did not identify which dollar currency applied, so none of its dollar figures enters the strict-v5 amount filter.UPI · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Constantin Brancusi

19 April 2002

  • Fabergé Winter Egg Sets Auction Record at Christie's The 1913 Fabergé Winter Egg sold at Christie's for an unqualified $9,579,500 to an unidentified private collector, setting a world auction record for a Fabergé work. The rock-crystal imperial egg, believed to have been designed by Theresia Pihl, had previously sold in Geneva in 1994 for an unqualified $5.6 million. Sixty-one items from the Malcolm Forbes collection formed part of the wider sale and totaled an unqualified $5,927,476, with all three figures held outside strict-v5 currency filters because UPI did not identify the dollar currency.UPI · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Peter Carl Fabergé

1 March 2002

  • London Contemporary Auctions Set Records for Gursky and Doig Christie's and Sotheby's London contemporary auctions produced records for Andreas Gursky's Untitled V at £432,750 and Peter Doig's Swamped at £322,500, while Gerhard Richter's Mailand: Dom led the two evenings at £1,763,500. The report also detailed results for Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Miquel Barceló, Gary Hume, Gregor Schneider and Damien Hirst, with Richter's Abstraktes Bild selling for £498,500. It noted unusually limited Warhol supply despite a Tate Modern survey and preserved two historical dollar-denominated comparators outside strict-v5 currency filters because the source did not identify the dollar currency.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Peter Doig

7 February 2002

  • SFMOMA Acquires Six Frank Stella Works from the Anderson Collection The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art acquired six Frank Stella works by gift and partial purchase from Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson. The group included Zambezi, given in December 2001, Polk City, scheduled to hang at SFMOMA, and Lipsko III; by agreement, the other five works were to remain on indefinite public view at Quadrus in Menlo Park. The museum declined to estimate the acquisition's value, while the article said its total appraised value would probably be in the seven figures without identifying a currency.SFGATE · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Frank Stella

6 February 2002

  • Christie's Offers Three Francis Bacon Paintings Estimated Above £1 Million Christie's in London offered three Francis Bacon paintings in a Post War Art auction with a combined expectation above £1 million, reported as €1.4 million. Man In Blue VII carried a £500,000 to £700,000 estimate, Head was expected to fetch up to £500,000, and Portrait of Man with Glasses IV was valued around £400,000, each with a reported euro counterpart. The article also said Bacon's most valuable painting had sold in New York the previous year for more than £6 million, reported as €9.8 million.Irish Examiner · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Francis Bacon

12 January 2002

  • Monet's Prairie de Limetz Returns to Public View Before Christie's London Auction Claude Monet's 1888 Prairie de Limetz was shown publicly after 113 years before a New York exhibition and Christie's London auction, where it was expected to bring 3 million pounds. The 36-work Impressionist collection was valued at 30 million pounds and included Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Le Premier Pas, estimated at 6 million pounds. Theo van Gogh had bought the Monet directly from the artist, and it later passed by private sale to the present owner's grandfather in 1950.The Independent · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Claude Monet

1 January 2002

  • Warhol's Market Reassessment Brings Record Auction Prices and Expanding Exhibitions ARTnews traced Andy Warhol's renewed market and institutional standing through auction records, exhibitions, scholarship, licensing and authentication activity. A pink Little Electric Chair sold at Sotheby's in London for $2.3 million after a $430,000 to $575,000 estimate, while a yellow version matched that result in New York and a Holly Solomon portrait brought $2.1 million at Christie's. The report also recorded Gerhard Richter's $2.9 million result for 180 Colors, Warhol's $17.3 million Orange Marilyn benchmark, and rising prices across drawings and photographs, but it did not identify the dollar currency for any figure.ARTnews · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Andy Warhol

5 December 2001

  • Henri Matisse Dation Adds Five Works Valued at FRF 227.5 Million A dation transferred five Henri Matisse works to the French state for the National Museum of Modern Art at Beaubourg, with the group valued at FRF 227.5 million and described by Le Parisien as about EUR 34.68 million. The four oils and one charcoal drawing include Jeune femme à la pelisse blanche, valued at more than FRF 60 million with a source-stated EUR 9.15 million equivalent. Arranged after Marie Matisse's death in payment of estate duties, the works entered Beaubourg's reserves before a planned February 2002 display.Le Parisien · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Henri Matisse

9 November 2001

  • Paris Court Voids Sale of Poussin's La Fuite en Égypte The Paris Court of Appeal voided the 1986 sale of La Fuite en Égypte after the painting, catalogued as from Nicolas Poussin's workshop, was later accepted as by Poussin. Robert and Richard Pardo had paid 1.6 million French francs against a 100,000-franc reserve, and the ruling required them to return the painting while the seller repaid the purchase price. The court rejected the dealers' 58.4-million-franc unjust-enrichment claim for lack of proof that their efforts established the attribution, while leaving open the possibility of such claims when buyers document their research.Le Journal des Arts · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Nicolas Poussin

8 November 2001

  • Pissarro's La Rue Saint-Lazare Sets $6.6 Million Auction Record Camille Pissarro's 1893 La Rue Saint-Lazare sold at Sotheby's for $6,605,750, eclipsing the artist's previous $3,962,300 record and leading the $33.1 million Impressionist and modern sale. Henri Matisse's Anemones au Miroir Noir brought $4,185,750, while Georges Braque's La Calanque de Figuerolles, la Ciotat fetched $2,755,750 against a $3 million low estimate. The source does not specify which dollar currency applies to any of these figures.Los Angeles Times / Reuters · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Camille Pissarro

31 August 2001

  • Lissitzky Heir Seeks Return of Kandinsky From Beyeler Foundation Attorneys for Jen Lissitzky filed a complaint on July 13 against the Beyeler Foundation in Basel seeking the return of Wassily Kandinsky's Improvisation No.10, which the report says was looted by the Nazis in 1937. Lissitzky had pursued an out-of-court settlement with dealer and collector Ernst Beyeler since 1989. The painting was one of 13 works in the Sophie-Küppers-Lissitzky collection, two of which had already been returned to Jen Lissitzky.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Wassily Kandinsky

16 July 2001

  • Kandinsky Restitution Claim Reaches Fondation Beyeler Jen Lissitzky filed a civil claim in Basel seeking the return of Wassily Kandinsky's 1910 painting Improvisation No. 10 from the Fondation Beyeler, which the source said was then estimated at USD 25 million. His mother, Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers, had left the painting on loan in Hanover before the Nazis confiscated it as so-called degenerate art in 1937. The report traced later acquisitions by Ferdinand Möller and Ernst Beyeler, while preserving Beyeler's assertion that he had bought the work in good faith.DIE WELT · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Wassily Kandinsky

9 July 2001

  • Getty Acquires Monet's Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light The J. Paul Getty Museum acquired Claude Monet's 1894 painting The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light from Acquavella Galleries in New York and placed it on view days later. The museum withheld the purchase price, while the report supplied unqualified-dollar comparators and acquisitions including $24.1 million for another Rouen Cathedral work, $4.4 million for Vincent van Gogh's Arles: View from the Wheatfields and $2.6 million for Hans Hoffmann's A Hare in the Forest. The estimated Getty acquisitions outlay for 2000-2001 was about $50 million, but the source did not identify the ISO dollar currency for any dollar figure.Los Angeles Times · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Claude Monet

27 June 2001

  • Two Monet Paintings Bring 13 Million Pounds at Sotheby's in London Claude Monet's Almiares, los últimos rayos de sol sold by telephone at Sotheby's in London for 10 million pounds, reported as 2.7 billion pesetas, while Au parc Monceau brought 3 million pounds, reported as 810 million pesetas. The first painting belonged to Monet's 1890 to 1891 haystack series and had been bought from him by Paul Gallimard. Part of the second painting's proceeds was due to descendants of Ludwig and Margret Kainer, who had been dispossessed by the Nazis in 1935.El País · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Claude Monet

17 May 2001

  • Koons Sculpture and Pollock Painting Set Records at Sotheby's New York A telephone bidder bought Jeff Koons's 1988 porcelain Michael Jackson and Bubbles at Sotheby's New York for almost GBP 4 million, above an estimate of up to GBP 2.8 million and a record for the artist. Lew Manilow sold the guaranteed work, one of three examples, while the other two were held by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a collection in Athens. The sale also set a record for Jackson Pollock when another telephone bidder paid GBP 5.5 million for Black and White/Number 6.The Telegraph · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Jeff Koons

16 May 2001

  • Jeff Koons Sculpture Reaches $5.6 Million as Pollock Tops Sotheby's Sale A larger-than-life Jeff Koons ceramic sculpture of Michael Jackson with Bubbles sold at Sotheby's for $5.6 million, which the New York Post described as a record for the artist. Jackson Pollock's 1951 Black and White Number 6 brought the evening's higher result at $7.9 million. Both winning bidders were anonymous, and the source did not specify which dollar currency the prices represented.New York Post · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Jeff Koons

8 May 2001

  • Cézanne Landscape Brings 38.5 Million Dollars in Berggruen Sale Paul Cézanne's La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, dated 1888 to 1890, sold in New York for 38.5 million dollars, reported as 84.5 million marks, against a 35 million to 45 million dollar estimate. Other named results included Cézanne's L'Allée à Chantilly I at 9.35 million dollars and Fillette à la poupée at 16.5 million dollars, while the Getty Museum acquired Vincent van Gogh's Weizenernte vor der Stadt Arles for 4.4 million dollars. The sale followed the division of the Berggruen collection after public buyers paid 253 million marks for roughly 200 works including Picasso, Matisse and Klee, while remaining Cézanne and van Gogh works were offered separately.Der Spiegel · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Paul Cézanne

29 March 2001

  • Dayton Exhibition Brings Together French Painting From Ingres to Matisse The Dayton Art Institute announced an exhibition of nearly 60 works drawn from the Walters Art Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art, including paintings by Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Paul Gauguin. The survey also represented Marguerite Gérard, Jean-Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Jean-François Millet, Constant Troyon, Charles-François Daubigny, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Pierre Bonnard. Scheduled for April 7 through June 3 in Dayton, the exhibition was then due to travel to the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.Farm and Dairy · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Henri Matisse

22 December 2000

  • Heinz Berggruen Sells Picasso-Centered Collection to German Government Heinz Berggruen sold and handed over his private art collection to the German Government at a signing attended by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. The collection centered on Pablo Picasso paintings spanning the artist's creative periods and also featured works by Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne; the source stated no sale price or individual object titles.RTÉ · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

10 November 2000

  • Picasso's Femme aux Bras Croises Sets a $55 Million Artist Record Pablo Picasso's blue-period painting Femme aux Bras Croises sold at Christie's in New York for USD 55 million, reported as GBP 38.8 million, setting an auction record for the artist. The result doubled the work's reported GBP 17 million presale estimate, while the broader sale realized GBP 100 million against an aggregate estimate of GBP 114 million to GBP 153 million.The Independent · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

15 August 2000

  • Christie's Reports $1.172 Billion in First-Half Sales Led by Picasso at $28.606 Million Christie's reported USD 1.172 billion in worldwide auction sales for the first half of 2000, a 16 percent increase from the same period in 1999. Pablo Picasso's Nature morte aux tulipes led the season at USD 28.606 million, while major results also included works by Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Francis Bacon, and Sigmar Polke. The report breaks the total down across regions, departments, and named auction results while also describing Christie's expansion in Paris and online services.Antiques and The Arts Weekly · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

1 August 2000

  • Bacon Estate Challenges Marlborough Fine Art Over Artist Accounts Vanity Fair examined allegations by Francis Bacon's estate that Marlborough Fine Art had underpaid the artist, routed sales through its Liechtenstein branch and withheld a complete accounting, while also presenting the gallery's rebuttals. The complaint contrasted GBP 1.6 million deposited into Bacon's UK account with a document purporting to show GBP 4.2 million paid for the same six paintings; Marlborough sources said Bacon had received the full amount in Switzerland and later moved part back to Britain. The report also traced disputed paintings, drawings and Bacon's studio archive as the parties contested his legacy and the handling of his market.Vanity Fair · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Francis Bacon

8 July 2000

  • Caja Madrid Acquires Rubens Hunting Scene for the Prado Caja Madrid acquired Peter Paul Rubens's Diana and Her Nymphs Hunting at Christie's in London for EUR 4.5 million, reported as approximately ESP 750 million, and said it would transfer the work to the Museo del Prado as a tax payment. Painted in 1636-1637 for King Philip IV's Torre de Parada, the canvas passed through the Infantado and Osuna ducal collections, Conalghi and the Wernher family. Caja Madrid also reported spending ESP 1.787 billion through its foundation on historical-heritage recovery initiatives in the preceding year.El País · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Peter Paul Rubens

1 July 2000

  • Si Newhouse Leaves MoMA Board After Buying Deaccessioned Picasso Si Newhouse left the Museum of Modern Art board after buying Pablo Picasso's 1913 Man with Guitar for USD 10 million through a dealer said to be Larry Gagosian, a transaction the museum said violated its trustee policy. The report placed the deal within museum deaccessioning debates, citing Guggenheim sales of works by Wassily Kandinsky and Amedeo Modigliani and a MoMA lawsuit over an Egon Schiele painting. A later update noted the USD 91 million sale of Jeff Koons's Rabbit, MoMA's acquisition of Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin with deaccession funds, and a subsequent sale of nine works, including a Picasso landscape, for more than USD 25 million.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

30 June 2000

  • Cheverny Auction Sets French Records for Vlaminck and Monet The annual auction at the Château de Cheverny sold an unnamed Fauve painting by Maurice de Vlaminck for no less than FRF 11.4 million, following the prior year's FRF 14 million result for Claude Monet's view of Étretat. The same sale placed Pablo Picasso's 1968 Musketeer drawing at FRF 800,000. A BVRB-stamped Japanese lacquer commode brought FRF 2.5 million, while an early seventeenth-century German carved amber tankard made FRF 1.2 million.Le Journal des Arts · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Claude Monet

30 June 2000

  • Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Bruegel's Mars and Venus Proposed at GBP 5 Million On June 30, 2000, The Art Newspaper reported that the Pennington-Mellor-Munthe Charity Trust had applied to the Charity Commissioners for authority to sell Mars and Venus, an unpublished painting by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Bruegel the Elder. The proposed sale would fund essential repairs at trust-owned Southside House in Wimbledon and Helen's in Much Marcle; the painting had been acquired by Hilda Pennington-Mellor in France in 1909. It had not been formally valued or sold, but was expected to fetch around GBP 5 million if brought to market.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Peter Paul Rubens

22 May 2000

  • Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition Sells for $17 Million at Phillips Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition, believed to date to circa 1919 to 1920, sold for $17 million at Phillips Auctioneers on May 11 in New York. Malevich's descendants had reclaimed the painting after the Soviet Union's collapse, and the Museum of Modern Art, where it had long been held, surrendered it to them. The Observer framed the sale as Phillips' attempt to challenge Sotheby's and Christie's, but the source did not identify the buyer or specify which dollar currency the price represented.Observer · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Kazimir Malevich

12 May 2000

  • Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition Leads Phillips at $15.5 Million Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition realized USD 15.5 million at Phillips against Bernard Arnault's USD 15 million guarantee, making it the only one of 31 offered paintings reported above estimate. Phillips offered about USD 81 million in art, sold fewer than two-thirds of the works, and realized USD 40.1 million. The painting had been returned by the Museum of Modern Art to 30 Malevich heirs after 63 years there, while Sotheby's and Christie's each recorded about USD 177 million in same-week sales.New York Post · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Kazimir Malevich

11 May 2000

  • Henri Matisse's La Serpentine Sets $14 Million Sculpture Record at Sotheby's Henri Matisse's 1909 bronze La Serpentine sold at Sotheby's for a source-described sculpture record of $14 million. The 42-lot Impressionist and modern group brought more than $140 million and included Monet's Le Portail above $24 million and Nympheas above $8 million, Picasso's Compotier et Guitare at nearly $10 million, and Toulouse-Lautrec's L'Abandon ou les Deux Amis above $9 million. The source did not identify the buyers, the sale location or which dollar currency the amounts represented.New York Post · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Henri Matisse

30 April 2000

  • Kann Heirs Trace Matisse Painting Displayed at Menil Collection The heirs of collector Alphonse Kann were tracing the ownership history of Henri Matisse's 1907 oil-on-canvas landscape La Riviere aux Aloes, also called Brook With Aloes, which had been displayed at Houston's Menil Collection since 1993. The family said German occupying forces seized Kann's collection in 1940, while the Menil director said the museum and the heirs were researching the work. The report also noted that the estate had recovered two Pablo Picasso oils and was pursuing claims involving two other Picasso paintings.Los Angeles Times · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Henri Matisse

13 April 2000

  • Pablo Picasso Appears in Metropolitan Museum Nazi-Era Provenance Review The Metropolitan Museum of Art told a federal commission that 393 European paintings, including works by Pablo Picasso, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cézanne, Matisse and Rembrandt, had incomplete Nazi-era ownership histories, while stressing that the list did not make them suspect. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston was researching more than 200 paintings and had posted seven concerning works, including an unnamed seventeenth-century oil by Domenico Fetti handled by a Nazi art dealer; MoMA listed 15 works without asserting looting. Los Angeles museums were reviewing holdings, and LACMA had flagged a Master of the Bargello panel because it passed through dealer Hans Wendland. The North Carolina Museum of Art separately returned a Madonna and Child attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder to the Viennese family from whom it was stolen by the Nazis.Los Angeles Times · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

10 April 2000

  • Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Dora Maar Draws Interest Before MGM-Mirage Deal S. I. Newhouse Jr. and Larry Gagosian met Steve Wynn in Las Vegas as MGM Grand’s announced $6.4 billion acquisition of Mirage raised questions about control and possible disposal of the $400 million Bellagio collection; the acquisition had not yet closed. Mirage owned half the collection and leased half from Wynn for $5 million a year, while Wynn’s first-refusal and appraisal rights prompted shareholder litigation and speculation that Newhouse wanted Picasso’s Portrait of Dora Maar; no sale of the painting was reported. The article also records the $17.3 million Sotheby’s sale of Andy Warhol’s Orange Marilyn, Bellagio’s $12 admission, Mirage’s $2 billion debt and the $48.4 million sale of Picasso’s Dream, with every dollar currency unstated and every figure range-ineligible.Observer · Headline-basic · Priority 45 · Pablo Picasso

1 February 2000

  • Egon Schiele Loan Subpoena Quashed After MoMA Spends Over $250,000 The Museum of Modern Art spent more than $250,000 in legal fees contesting an attempted New York subpoena of two unnamed Egon Schiele paintings loaned by the Leopold Foundation in Austria. In September 1999, the New York Court of Appeals definitively quashed the subpoena sought by the New York District Attorney. The source does not state an ISO dollar currency, and the figure remains a private, range-ineligible legal-cost hold rather than an artwork value.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Egon Schiele

1 February 2000

  • Gustav Klimt Restitution Claims Split Austria’s Advisory Panel Austria’s restitution advisory committee recommended returning Gustav Klimt’s Lady with feather boa to Alice Kantor but denied the Bloch-Bauer heirs’ claim to five Klimt paintings, including two Adele Bloch-Bauer portraits, prompting litigation. Betty Looram, a niece and a nephew recovered 241 Rothschild works, 224 of which were later auctioned in London, while 16 Klimt drawings and 20 Vienna porcelain pieces were returned to the Bloch-Bauer heirs. The report also traces distinct restitution, seizure or denial cases involving works by Egon Schiele, David Teniers, Frans Hals, Gentile Bellini, Edvard Munch, Dosso Dossi, Jean-François Millet and Johann Gualbert Raffalt. It values Nazi-confiscated jewellery, precious metals and artworks from Viennese Jews at approximately ASch2.7 billion, with publisher equivalents of £117 million and an unqualified $188 million, and records Kantor’s earlier ASch50,000 compensation.The Art Newspaper · Headline-basic · Approved 475 secondary · Gustav Klimt

15 October 2008

27 July 2005

  • Pablo Picasso's Femme en Blanc Prompts Conditional Dealer Settlement On July 27, 2005, the Los Angeles Times reported that Thomas Bennigson had reached a conditional settlement with retired dealer Stephen Hahn over Pablo Picasso's circa-1922 Femme en Blanc (Woman in White), while Bennigson's ownership suit against Marilyn Alsdorf continued. Hahn would owe Bennigson an amount equal to Hahn's profit from the 1975 sale only if Bennigson recovered the painting by judgment or settlement, or otherwise settled his claim, within five years. The source states no numeric payment and does not report a completed transfer.Los Angeles Times · latimes.com

27 October 2004

  • FBI Seizes Pablo Picasso's Femme en Blanc in Chicago Ownership Dispute On October 27, 2004, the Los Angeles Times reported that FBI agents had seized Pablo Picasso's circa-1922 Femme en Blanc (Woman in White) at Marilyn Alsdorf's Chicago residence after alleging it had been unlawfully shipped there from a Los Angeles sale exhibition in 2002. The painting was believed to have been stolen by the Nazis from Thomas Bennigson's grandmother, and Bennigson had sued for its return. The work entered U.S. custody but remained at the residence while courts considered ownership.Los Angeles Times · latimes.com

1 February 2001

  • Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square Awaits Inkombank Creditor and Export Decisions Art of Russia republished a Financial Times report that an Inkombank creditors’ committee was due to discuss how to realize Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square, which experts valued at $20 mln on the open market. Russia’s culture ministry had not refused an export license, but sources expected refusal could confine a future auction to Russia and reduce creditor recovery; the valuation was not a sale and its dollar currency was unstated. Inkombank bought the fourth version from Malevich’s family, while three others remained in Russian state museums and a different composition had sold in London for $17.05 mln.Art of Russia · artofrussia.com

10 November 2000

  • Pablo Picasso's Femme aux bras croisés Sets USD 55.6 Million Record On November 10, 2000, The Globe and Mail reported that Pablo Picasso's Blue Period portrait Femme aux bras croisés had sold for USD 55.6 million at Christie's in New York to an anonymous telephone bidder. The completed result set a new auction record for Picasso, although nearly half of the sale's major works went unsold.The Globe and Mail · theglobeandmail.com

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