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theartnewspaper.com
The Art Newspaper reports that Sotheby’s and Christie’s achieved strong totals in London for contemporary British art, with Bacon, Auerbach, Freud, and Kossoff among the standout names. The piece notes records and high demand, despite a weaker US dollar, and highlights buyer demographics at Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
theartnewspaper.com
The Art Newspaper reports that Corbis has signed a two-year contract to become the exclusive agent for digital images of Warhol and his work, launching a Warhol website with over 500 images. Gary Shenk comments on licensing, and the Warhol Foundation will receive royalties; Corbis already represents other archives and has various museum deals. Corbis’s revenue last year was around $140 million.
theartnewspaper.com
London Impressionist and Modern art sales report: Modigliani and Matisse overtake soft-focus Impressionists. The article discusses Sotheby’s and Christie’s sales in June 2004, noting Modigliani, Matisse, Van Gogh, Picasso and Kandinsky as top performers, with Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro and Degas lagging. It mentions the highest price of the week for Matisse’s Odalisque au fauteuil noir at £6.6 million ($12 million) and a unsold Renoir piece at £5.9 million (est. £6/8 million), along with currency effects and buyer origins.
starnewsonline.com
The Rijksmuseum acquired The Burgher of Delft and his Daughter (1655) by Jan Steen for $14.6 million from Lady Janet Douglas Pennant’s estate; the work is noted for depicting wealth and poverty in the Dutch Golden Age and is linked to Jan Steen and Johannes Vermeer, with context about The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama.
heraldscotland.com
The Herald reports that William Primrose, described by Yehudi Menuhin as the first star of the viola, earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame but remains largely unknown in Scotland. The article covers his early life in Glasgow, his rise as a virtuoso violist, performances with leading orchestras, and commissions by composers such as Benjamin Britten and Bela Bartók.
irishexaminer.com
The article reports a €59m raid at the Munch Museum in Oslo where The Scream by Edvard Munch and another painting were stolen at gunpoint; no injuries were reported and a nationwide manhunt was launched. It notes concerns about the security and potential ransom, and mentions previous thefts of different versions of The Scream.
aljazeera.com
The Al Jazeera article reports that two masked robbers forced a museum employee to remove The Scream and Madonna from the Munch Museum in Oslo at gunpoint, escaping in a car with a third man. The stolen works, valued at millions of dollars, were cut from their frames and later found discarded in another part of the city; a previous theft of The Scream from Norway’s National Gallery in 1994 is also noted.
saratogian.com
The article reports on Yefim Bronfman performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra and then playing Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 with Chantal Juillet and guests at the Saratoga Chamber Music Festival. The ensemble included Alisa Weilerstein, David Owen Norris, Michael Ludwig, Roberto Diaz, and others, with works by Beethoven and Zwilich featured alongside Dvorak.