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Christie’s announced that five Egon Schiele works on paper from Dr Frederick Gerstel’s collection would enter its June German and Austrian Art section in London. Three had been on long-term loan to New York’s Museum of Modern Art, while the group’s estimates reached as high as £3.2 million.
artnews.com
Turner’s 1840 Venetian landscape Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio by J. M. W. Turner sold for $35.9 million at Christie’s Old Masters sale in New York, reportedly to Steve Wynn. The auction total reached $74.5 million with six other works selling for over $1 million; the Turner was consigned by the St. Francis of Assisi Foundation.
restitutiecommissie.nl
Poultry by Melchior d’Hondecoeter (NK 1985) and Saint Peter repentant by Guido Reni (NK 2863) are discussed in the Restitutiecommissie recommendation RC 1.28. The report covers loss period 1940-1945, original owner listed as a private individual, with loss location in the Netherlands.
independent.co.uk
Egon Schiele Wilted Sunflowers (Sonnenblumen) was stolen from Karl Grunwald and re-emerged, leading to its display at Christie's in London. The painting, seized by Nazis, is now expected to fetch at least £6 million at the Impressionist and Modern Art sale on 20 June in London.
nbcnews.com
Mats Tinnsten and Peter Carlsson of Mid-Sweden University in Ostersund analyze Stradivarius violins using computer models to replicate their acoustic properties. Stradivari built more than 1,100 violins in Cremona, Italy, with about 600 surviving today. A Stradivarius violin recently sold at Christie's in New York for just over $2 million.
playbill.com
Turtle Island Quartet violinist Evan Price lost his violin on April 8 after leaving it outside Billings, Montana’s airport, as reported by the Billings Gazette. The instrument, an 1879 Eugenio Praga violin, is valued at about $50,000. Price spent two days checking pawnshops and stores while police reviewed surveillance footage.
kultura.hu
Milliárdokat ér Turner festménye: a velencei témájú festményt egy tételben megvásárolta egy névtelenné maradó gyűjtő; a kép címe Giudecca, La Donna della Salute i San Giorgio. eddig York Constable The Look című festménye volt a rekorder 21 millió dollárért. Turner festményei közül az eladott legnagyobb összeg körülbelül 1,9 milliárd forint volt. A leütés a második legmagasabb összeg klasszikus műalkotásokért, az első Rubens egy festményéért történt eladás 16,8 milliárd forint körüli összegért. A legmagasabb összegre kioltott festmény Picasso Sárga aktja volt 104 millió dollárért ( ~22,8 milliárd forint) 2004-ben New Yorkban.
dn.se
JMW Turner painting Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio sold for about 268 million kronor at a New York auction, setting a price record.
ilgiornale.it
La viola Medicea, detta anche del Crocefisso, è stata ritrovata dai carabinieri del nucleo tutela culturale insieme ai colleghi di Milano, Lodi e Pavia dopo 26 anni. L instrumento fu costruito nel 1595 dai liutai cremonesi Antonio e Gerolamo Amati ed è di proprietà dell’assicurazione che aveva pagato il premio al maestro Luigi Alberto Bianchi.
artforum.com
The article reports that J. M. W. Turner’s 1841 Venetian landscape, Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio, sold for $35.85 million at Christie’s International in New York, setting the record for the most expensive British painting at auction. The sale was purchased via phone bid by an unidentified private collector; Christie’s valued it at more than $20 million. The previous Turner auction record was $9 million for Seascape, Folkestone (1984).
nbcnews.com
Adele Bloch-Bauer I, an oil and silver and gold painting by Gustav Klimt, is shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art after being returned by a Vienna museum; the five Klimt paintings were looted by the Nazis and were returned to Maria Altmann, Adele Bloch-Bauer's niece, marking a homecoming in Los Angeles.
npr.org
Gustav Klimt’s 1907 Adele Bloch-Bauer I, also known as the Mona Lisa of Austria, along with four other Klimt paintings, move to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art after a long legal battle involving Maria Altmann and the Austrian government; the articles notes the paintings' value and relocation to LACMA.