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Goya fue vendido en Nueva York por 79,6 millones de pesetas (497.500 dólares) en Sotheby’s, un boceto fechado en 1771 titulado Hanibal vencendor contemplando Italia desde los Alpes. El comprador fue un coleccionista privado norteamericano. Se mencionan otros bocetos y la obra final redescubierta en la colección de la fundación Selgas-Fagalde; otro boceto se halla en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Zaragoza.
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Diario El Mundo reporta que el cuadro La Condesa de Chinchón, de Francisco de Goya, fue adjudicado al Museo Nacional del Prado por 4.000 millones de pesetas mediante el derecho de tanteo. El ministerio de Educación y Cultura decidió su adscripción tras revisar informes de las partes, del Prado y de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
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The article reports that a Stradivarius violin found by traffic police in Rovenskaya region was a sophisticated fake. It notes the instrument was allegedly made in the late 19th century in a German factory, with an estimated Western value around $1,000, contrasting with genuine Stradivaris worth millions. The find was made inside a KamAZ cab during a checkpoint stop, involving Azerbaijani citizen Elshan Safarov and two Lu гаan residents, and it mentions prior similar seizures.
lejournaldesarts.fr
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Italy violated Ernst Beyeler's property right regarding Vincent van Gogh's painting Le Jardinier, which Beyeler had acquired in 1977 and faced preemption by Italy in 1988. The court found Italy's five-year preemption delay unjustified and noted an unjust enrichment by the state, though it did not condemn the preemption principle itself.
elpais.com
La ministra de Educación y Cultura compró por 4.000 millones de pesetas el único gran cuadro de Goya que quedaba en manos privadas, La condesa de Chinchón, retrato de la esposa de Manuel Godoy pintado en 1800. El cuadro pertenecía a la familia Rúspoli Morenés, y el Gobierno ejerció el derecho de tanteo para venderse a un particular supuesto financiero y coleccionista Juan Abelló.
elpais.com
El Prado y la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando informan al ministro de Educación y Cultura sobre las razones para incorporar La condesa de Chinchón, de Francisco de Goya, a sus colecciones tras comprarla el Estado por 4.000 millones de pesetas; el director del Prado afirma que, por lógica histórica, debe formar parte de la primera colección mundial de Goya. La decisión se tomará en los próximos días.
elpais.com
The Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture moved to exercise the right of tanteo to acquire Francisco de Goya's The Countess of Chinchón for national collections, after the current owners notified a sale for 4,000 million pesetas. The offer came from financier and art collector Juan Abelló, president of Airtel. Mariano Rajoy, the government official cited, called the acquisition the most important of the current legislature, with the project reportedly valued at 14,000 million pesetas in art purchases.
nypost.com
Juilliard student Meesun Hong left her Mozzani violin, valued at $40,000, in a taxi cab after dinner near Herald Square. Hong, 22, from Washington Heights, offered a $500 reward and contacted cab companies, police stations, and pawnbrokers with no success.
absolutearts.com
Piet Mondrian's Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow and Red (1922) was acquired by the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University Art Museums from the family of the original owners, with support from an anonymous donor and the Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. The painting, dating to Mondrian's classic period, remains in pristine condition and was previously sold by the artist in 1925.
observer.com
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) is the subject of a large Spanierman Gallery exhibition titled Arthur Wesley Dow: His Art and His Influence. The piece notes Dow’s influence on Georgia O’Keeffe and Max Weber, as well as connections to Frank Lloyd Wright and Alvin Langdon Colburn, and discusses the tension between Dow’s influence and the actual quality of his work.
oklahoman.com
Oliveira's love of fine violins shows throughout career. The article discusses violin maker Antonio Stradivari, the Guarneri del Gesu known as the Stretton, and Oliveira's own collection, including his 1692 Strad, Molitar Stradivari of 1697, and involvement with the Henry Hottinger collection.
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Hans Beyeler, galeriste suisse, a gagné une affaire devant la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme concernant l’expropriation du tableau de Vincent van Gogh par l’Italie, estimant que ses droits de propriété avaient été violés. L’arrêt a été rendu à Strasbourg et conclut que l’Italie avait violé le droit à la propriété en exerçant son droit de préemption après cinq ans, affectant la valeur marchande du tableau.
theartnewspaper.com
Raphael’s Donna Velata and Titian’s Young Englishman, on loan from the Palazzo Pitti to the Art Institute of Chicago, are discussed as influential Renaissance portraits. The works date to around 1516 and 1540 respectively and have been linked to figures such as Margarita Luti, Pietro Aretino, the Duke of Urbino, and Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk. The article notes this is only the second US loan for the Titian and the first time the Raphael has traveled outside Europe, with the Art Institute hosting it alongside connections to Monet exhibitions in Florence.