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lesechos.fr
Klimt, Léger et Modigliani à New York relates two parallel stories of World War I era modern art and later Nazi-confiscations. One Klimt landscape, likely Landhaus am Attersee, is discussed in the context of a Sotheby’s sale in New York on November 5, 2003; the other involves Léger and Modigliani works previously exhibited in major museums and destined for Christie’s in New York in November 2003.
mutualart.com
Zao Wou-Ki, L'Aube (1956) is an oil on canvas artwork, 55 x 46 cm, signed. The page lists sale history and related lots, with performance data including a 2003 sale above mid-estimate of +52%.
welt.de
Egon Schiele's 1917 painting Mädchen set a record in Austria with a hammer price of over 3.56 million euros at the Im Kinsky auction house, which celebrated its tenth anniversary with a series of records totaling 90 million euros in revenue.
news.cts.com.tw
The article discusses a priceless handmade violin from Italy, owned by Chinese musician Lu Siqing, arriving in Taiwan. The instrument is a 260-year-old purely handmade violin valued at about 6 million USD (over 200 million TWD). Lu Siqing will perform on the 27th.
latimes.com
Banksy is the graffiti artist discussed. The artwork was glued to a Tate Britain gallery wall and later fell to the floor. A second version of the painting is being sold at a London gallery with a video of him hanging it for $25,000, while the original is held in Tate’s lost property division.
nmz.de
Nemanja Radulovic, from the former Yugoslavia, won the Hannover International Violin Competition with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major op. 61, receiving 30,000 euros and an image DVD. Second prize went to Saeka Matsuyama (Japan) for 20,000 euros, third prize to Feng Ning (China) for 10,000 euros, and the remaining finalists each received 5,000 euros.
amp.theguardian.com
Banksy, Britain's famous graffiti artist, hung one of his works at Tate Britain before it fell and the Tate launched an inquiry. The artist described his stunt as a shortcut and to cut out the middle man, or curator, in the Tate process.
artforum.com
Olafur Eliasson and three other artists are involved in new Tate acquisitions funded by a 100,000-pound art fund; Candida Gertler contributed 5,000 pounds and inspired 19 others to contribute. The report appears in The Independent and is cited by Louise Jury for Artforum’s coverage.
thereporteronline.com
Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio will present its latest exhibition The Works of Pennsylvania Painters & The New Hope Circle in New Hope, to accompany the James A. Michener Art Museum-New Hope opening. The benefit exhibition features 18th–20th century oils and watercolors by Pennsylvania painters including Daniel Garber, N. C. Wyeth, Robert Spencer, Edward Redfield, Fern Coppedge, and Cora Brooks, with proceeds donated to the Michener Art Museum New Hope satellite campus.