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Nouveau succès pour Cheverny reports the annual sale at the château de Cheverny, featuring a Fauve painting by Vlaminck selling for 11.4 million francs and a Monet Etretat previously sold for 14 million francs in 1999, along with a Picasso drawing selling for 800,000 francs and antique furniture including a BVRB lacquer commode at 2.5 million francs and a amber goblet at 1.2 million francs.
theartnewspaper.com
The article discusses an unpublished painting by Rubens and Jan Bruegel the Elder, titled “Mars and Venus,” which is to be sold to fund repairs for two English houses, Southside House in Wimbledon and Helen's in Much Marcle, both associated with Malcolm Munthe. The sale is being considered by the Pennington-Mellor-Munthe Charity Trust and may proceed after Charity Commissioners' authority; the painting was acquired by Hilda Pennington-Mellor in 1909 and is expected to fetch around £5 million.
nzherald.co.nz
The article reports that 18-year-old Auckland violinist Simone Roggen won the orchestral instrument section at the Young Performer of the Year competition in Wellington with an electrifying excerpt from Bizet's Carmen.
nytimes.com
Carol Vogel reports that Ian Woodner, a prominent Manhattan developer and major collector, including a large collection of Redon works, left his two daughters Dian and Andrea Woodner who now oversee the Ian Woodner Family Collection. The daughters have donated nearly 100 of Redon works, plus other drawings, paintings, pastels, watercolors, prints and illustrated books by Odilon Redon to the Museum of Modern Art.