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artforum.com
Two Picasso paintings, Maya a la poupee (1938) and Portrait de femme, Jacqueline (1961), were stolen from the home of Picasso’s granddaughter Diana Widmaier-Picasso in Paris; the theft involved signs of breaking and entering and totaled nearly sixty-six million dollars in value.
nbcnews.com
Two Pablo Picasso paintings, a portrait of his daughter Maya and a portrait of his second wife Jacqueline, were stolen from Picasso’s granddaughter Diana Widmaier-Picasso in Paris. The two works are valued together at about $66 million.
latimes.com
Monet and Degas paintings were sold by Rohrer Fine Art to a California collector, with each piece selling for several million dollars, in what could be one of Laguna’s highest-priced art transactions. The gallery, opened in 2006, is co-owned by Jim Carona and Chip Tom and operates with a Palm Desert sister gallery, Heather James Art & Antiquities, listing artists such as Warhol, Rauschenberg, Tamayo, Zuniga, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, van Gogh, Matisse, Renoir, Frida Kahlo and Lichtenstein in its network.
english.radio.cz
The article reports that a Brno musician, Jan Skrdlik, planned a thank you concert after his rare 1848 cello was stolen and later returned following a public appeal. The concert was to be held in a Brno church, with the thief invited.
artnews.com
Phillips, de Pury & Company held a 92-lot contemporary art sale in a Bloomsbury ballroom, featuring 40 works from Kika Borghese’s Chinese collection. The auction realized £5.28 million ($10.4 million) with six Western records and notable prices for Zhang Xiaogang, Tang Zhigang, Mark Handforth, Keith Tyson, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Wim Delvoye, José María Cano, and Martin Kippenberger across participating galleries.
eu.starnewsonline.com
Fisk University will be allowed under a settlement to sell two paintings from its Stieglitz collection if no donor can be found to keep them, with one painting to be purchased by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum for $7 million and Fisk potentially selling the Marsden Hartley piece. Each painting is appraised at $8.5 million, and Fisk must seek donations to keep one or both works; court approval would be required for any sale.
nytimes.com
The New York Times reports Fisk University in Nashville will be allowed to sell two Stieglitz-related paintings, Radiator Building , Night, New York by Georgia O’Keeffe and Painting No. 3 by Marsden Hartley, if no donor is found to keep them. Each work is appraised at $8.5 million, and the settlement requires Fisk to seek donations to retain them; if no donor steps forward within 30 days, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will purchase Radiator Building for $7 million and Fisk may auction the Hartley.
heraldtribune.com
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Radiator Building – Night, New York and Marsden Hartley’s Painting No. 3, two paintings from Fisk University’s Stieglitz collection, could be sold under a settlement that requires Fisk to seek donor support to keep them; if no donor steps forward within 30 days, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will buy Radiator Building for $7 million and Fisk may sell Hartley’s painting.
cbc.ca
Francis Bacon's 1956 Study for Portrait II, a painting of Pope Innocent X, sold for £14 million ($32 million CAD) at Christie's, setting a record for a Bacon work and the second-highest price for a post-1945 artwork. The portrait is based on Diego Velazquez's 1650 painting of Pope Innocent X and is part of Bacon's pope series.
independent.co.uk
Francis Bacon's Study for Portrait II, painted in 1956, sold at Christie’s for £14m, a new record and the second-most expensive postwar work at auction. The painting was bought by New York art dealer Andrew Fabricant for the Richard Gray Gallery.
thetimes.com
Peter Doig’s White Canoe sold for £5.73 million at Sotheby’s, a record for a living European artist, as part of a sale that totalled £45.76 million; other works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein also featured in the sale.
telegraph.co.uk
Francis Bacon's painting Study for Portrait II from his Pope series sold for £14m at Christie's, with Sophia Loren noted as the seller; the sale followed a week of major art auctions in London.
artnews.com
James McNeill Whistler. Artwork discussed: Violet and Blue: Among the Rollers, 1893. $1.01 million purchase price (including buyer’s premium).
ct24.ceskatelevize.cz
Jan Škrdlík, brněnský violoncellista, přišel do kanceláře a zjistil, že mu byl odcizen vzácný violoncello vyrobený Adama Emanuela Homolky v roce 1848. Nástroj byl nalezen v seníku u Mutěnic poté, co se zlodej ozval policii a nález potvrdila hodonínská policie; majitel nástroje ho poznal. Původní odhad hodnoty byl milion korun.
stringgearnews.blogspot.com
The page reports on the Yamaha Studio Solid-Body Viola SVV-200K as part of String Gear News. It mentions a price listing with List Price of $1,645.00 and Our Price of $1,151.01. The article is posted under Friday, February 23, 2007 by a user labeled guitarsearcher.