Christie’s documents the market development behind ["Christie's announces New York Asian Art Week | March 2022 - Christie's", "Christie's announces New York Asian Art Week | March 2022"]. Its account reports that from Himalayan bronzes to huanghuali tables and early Korean paintings, the seven distinct sales of Asian Art Week offer a wide breadth of art from across every category of Asian art.
Le Figaro reports that Kandinsky's 1909 painting Bild mit Häusern (Painting with Houses) sold under duress in October 1940 at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has been returned to the heirs of Emmanuel Lewenstein, ending a protracted legal battle. The Dutch authorities and the city of Amsterdam announced an amicable agreement ensuring no further litigation.
Article reports Phillips, in collaboration with Yusaku Maezawa, offering Basquiat's Untitled, 1982 as the star lot in the New York Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art on May 18, with an international tour preceding the sale. The painting is described as over sixteen feet wide and estimated in the region of $70 million.
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict, 1982, is highlighted as the leading work in Christie’s New York 21st Century Evening Sale in May at Rockefeller Center. The painting, executed across three conjoined panels and created in Basquiat’s Crosby Street studio, is noted for its motifs including the three-pointed crown and expansive painterly gestures, and it has appeared in major retrospectives and exhibitions.
Lena Yokoyama, a world-famous Japanese violinist, will perform at the Italian Cultural Institute Abu Dhabi to mark the first public exhibition of a Stradivarius violin in the UAE, featuring a Golden Bell 1668 violin by Antonio Stradivari. The event includes a 15-minute performance starting at 5:30 pm on February 22 and is free to attend.
The article discusses Casa Stradivari Foundation founded by Fabrizio von Arx with Antonio Gambardella and Stefania Soldi to renovate the last workshop of Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy. The project aims to reopen the house as a site of violin history with exhibition space, library, music room, conference room, and listening/viewing areas, with completion targeted for November 2022.
The page presents a Vittorio Villa violin from Cremona 2011, titled “Louise,” described as a copy of the Hellier Stradivari. It includes maker information for Vittorio Villa and an embedded YouTube violin demonstration; the instrument’s status is Sold and several body specifications are listed.
Lavinia Fontana Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (ca. 1575) has been acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, through the Felton Bequest. This work is Fontana’s first entry into a public collection in Australia and is among only about 30 paintings attributed to her by historians.
Paul Gauguin's Mata Mua is returned to display in Madrid after a nearly €100 million deal over 15 years with Carmen Cervera, the Dowager Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza. The painting had been in an air-conditioned vault in Andorra during stalled negotiations between the Spanish government and its owner.
Christie’s documents the market development behind ["The Collection of Ellen and Dan Shapiro to Be Offered in First Open: Post-war and Contemporary Art - Christie's", 'The Collection of Ellen and Dan Shapiro to Be Offered in First Open: Post-war and Contemporary Art']. Its account reports that • Forty-four photographs from the Ellen and Dan Shapiro Collection will be offered in First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art, live for bidding from 23 February to 9 March 2022.
The Violin Channel reports that luthier Padraig O’Dubhlaoidh built the first vegan violin, free of animal products, in his Malvern Hills workshop during the COVID-19 lockdown. The instrument’s edge inlay used poplar and steamed pear dyed black, with wild berries and spring water used for purfling; the violin is the first to be registered with the Vegan Society trademark.
The article discusses Paul Becker of Carl Becker & Son in Chicago, a fifth-generation luthier whose violins, violas, and cellos sell for $36,000 or more. It traces the Becker family lineage back to Herman Macklett and Carl G. Becker, notes the shop's location on Michigan Avenue, mentions Rachel Barton Pine as a violinist connected to a Becker instrument, and references a forthcoming ABC7 Chicago documentary about a stolen $3,000,000 violin.
Mandarin Trading Ltd. v. Wildenstein, 2007 NY Slip Op 52059(U) (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Sep 4, 2007) concerns Mandarin Trading Ltd. suing Guy Wildenstein and Wildenstein & Co., Inc. over an allegedly misrepresented sale of a painting by Paul Gauguin, Paysage Aux Trois Arbres. The court (New York County Supreme Court) granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss under CPLR 3211 based on documentary evidence and for failure to state a claim; decision date 04 September 2007; docket 602648/06.
Phillips’s preserved release documents Phillips Announces Works to Be Sold to Support the Warburg Institute and details the principal works, sale terms, or market results.
The page presents United States v. One Stradivarius Violin, 188 F.542 (S.D.N.Y. 1911), a U.S. District Court case from May 8, 1911, involving forfeiture of a Stradivarius violin imported without duty payment. Key parties include UNITED STATES v. ONE STRADIVARIUS VIOLIN, with Judge Holt presiding; Henry A. Wise (U.S. Attorney) and Parsons Closson & McIlvaine represent claimants. The case centers on whether the suit was barred by the statute of limitations under the Customs Revenue Laws (three-year limitation).