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theviolinchannel.com
Nikki Chooi, a VC Artist, has been named the newest member of Thomastik-Infeld's Artist Family. The article highlights Chooi's role as a violin soloist, concertmaster, and educator, and quotes his enthusiasm for the Thomastik-Infeld strings, including the Dynamo sets.
christies.com
Pablo Picasso’s Femme dans un rocking-chair (Jacqueline) led the London Evening Sale with a price of £16,892,000. The 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale totaled £128,952,500 and contributed to a combined evening total of £167,814,400, with seven artists setting auction records across the two sales. Other mentioned artists include Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Oscar Domínguez, Tyler Hobbs and Caroline Walker.
Christie’s
Christie’s documents the market development behind ["OLD MASTERS TWO SALES TOTAL: $62,776,6660 - Christie's", 'OLD MASTERS TWO SALES TOTAL: $62,776,6660']. Its account reports that françois de Poortere, Christie’s Head of Old Master Paintings, said, “The Old Masters market showed depth and strength today.
economictimes.indiatimes.com
The article discusses the 1731 Guarneri del Gesù violin known as the Baltic, up for auction in New York as part of Tarisio's March edition, with presale estimates around $10 million and potential to reach higher. It notes the instrument's provenance, name origin from the Baltic family von Giese, and references to experts from Tarisio and Bloomberg about its rarity and auction records for Guarneri violins.
timesofisrael.com
The Times of Israel reports that the heirs of Prof. Curt Glaser and those of Norwegian shipowner Thomas Olsen will auction Edvard Munch's Dance on the Beach in London, with an expected price of $15–$25 million. The painting was sold under duress after Hitler’s rise to power, and the provenance involves Glaser and Olsen, both patrons of Munch, with Max Reinhardt having commissioned the work.
eso.co.uk
The page discusses Philip Sawyers’s works Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Viola Concerto, Remembrance for Strings, Octet performed by Daniel Rowland (violin), Maja Bogdanović (cello), English Symphony Orchestra with Zoë Beyers and Emily Davis as leaders, released by Nimbus in collaboration with ESO.
mirror.co.uk
Janusz Wawrowski from Konin, Poland, was stopped from bringing his original Stradivarius violin onto a LOT Polish Airlines flight at Vilnius International Airport. He chose to travel by bus for about eight hours after the airline refused boarding with the instrument, which was valued at over £4.15 million.
nltimes.nl
The Kandinsky painting Bild mit Häusern (1909) by Wassily Kandinsky was sold for over €60 million to a private collector after Amsterdam returned it to the heirs of its last Jewish owner. The sale was handled by a large auction house, with proceeds to be shared among the heirs and Mondex for looted art restitution.
smithsonianmag.com
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Marine Guernsey (1883) and a Renoir study (1908-1910) for the Judgment of Paris, Paul Gauguin Still Life With Mandolin (1885), and Paul Cézanne Undergrowth (1890-1892) are to be returned to the heirs of Ambroise Vollard. The four works were stolen during World War II and ended up at the Musée d’Orsay; a French court ordered restitution to Vollard’s heirs, with the state indicating it will not appeal.
independent.co.uk
The Independent reports that Polish violinist Janusz Wawrowski was prevented by LOT from carrying his Stradivarius valued at about $5m (£4.1m) as hand luggage, forcing him to travel by bus for eight hours. He had to check the instrument into hold or abandon boarding, and ultimately took a bus home from Vilnius to Konin after the incident in February; LOT later apologised and refunded his flight.
Phillips
Phillips’s preserved release documents Phillips to Unveil Its New Asia Headquarters and Host Inaugural Sales in Hong Kongs West Kowloon Cultural District in Spring 2023 and details the principal works, sale terms, or market results.
fineartconnoisseur.com
Ronald S. Lauder and the Beran family heirs announce a restitution agreement for Gustav Klimt's portrait The Black Feather Hat (1910). The work is described as oil on canvas, 31 1/8 by 24 13/16 inches, with provenance tracing back to Irene Beran and Alois Beran, including later exhibition history and current custodianship. No monetary amount is provided in the article excerpt.
usaartnews.com
The article reports a French court ruling that the Musée d’Orsay must restitute four paintings by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir that were stolen and sold to the Nazis after Ambroise Vollard’s death. The works are Undergrowth by Gauguin (1890-1892), Still life with mandolin by Gauguin (1885), Marine Guernesey by Renoir (1883), and Judgment of Paris by Renoir (1908).
invaluable.com
Robert Colescott's Miss Liberty (1980) sold for $4.5 million at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale in Los Angeles. The work was acquired by the Art Bridges Foundation. Other highlights included Franz Klein Untitled (circa 1951) at $138,975, Janet Fish's Purple Pitcher, Cakes and Peonies (1982) at $126,375, two Liza Lou Kitchen pieces (Ruffles, circa 1995 at $17,850 and Smacks, 1997 at $21,675), and DeWain Valentine Concave Crystal (1986) at $101,175.
news.artnet.com
The article reports that a French court ordered the musée d’orsay to restitute four paintings by cézanne, renoir, and gauguin that were stolen and sold to the nazis following the death of art dealer ambroise vollard. The works include renoir’s Marine Guernesey and Judgement of Paris, cézanne’s Undergrowth, and gauguin’s Still life with mandolin, and ownership will transfer to vollard’s heirs after a decade-long legal battle.
artnews.com
Renoir’s Marine Guernesey (1883) and a study for The Judgment of Paris, plus Gauguin’s Still Life with Mandolin (1885) and Cézanne’s Undergrowth (1890-1892) are ordered to be restituted to the heirs of Ambroise Vollard. The ruling follows years of legal action and confirms the paintings were stolen during World War II; the French State will not appeal.
theartnewspaper.com
The Paris administrative court ordered the Musée d’Orsay to restitute four masterworks by Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin to the heirs of Ambroise Vollard, who owned the works before they were stolen during World War II. The pieces include two Renoir paintings, Gauguin's Still life with mandolin, and Cézanne's Undergrowth, with the court confirming Vollard's heirs’ ownership and the French state indicating it will not appeal.
smithsonianmag.com
Kandinsky painting Murnau mit Kirche II (1910) could fetch around $45 million at Sotheby’s in London. The work was restituted to the heirs of Johanna Margarete Stern and Siegbert Samuel Stern after a lengthy legal battle.
newswire.ca
The Baltic, a 292-year-old Guarneri del Gesù violin, is being offered by Tarisio in New York in an online auction running to March 16, 2023, with an estimated sale value in excess of US$10 million. The instrument has a notable provenance tying it to Sau-Wing Lam and has been exhibited at New York's Metropolitan Museum on multiple occasions.
journalchc.com
The article reports the theft and recovery of a viola valued at 30,000 euros, crafted by Vienna luthier Martin Schwalb in 2022, along with its bow by H.R. Pfretzschner. The instrument belonged to musician Vytautas Martisius of the Politeama theater in Palermo and was recovered by the police with thanks to the questura and Falchi della Squadra Mobile.
barnebys.fr
Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau avec église II (1910), est estimé à environ 45 millions de dollars et pourrait établir un record aux enchères à Londres, surpassant le précédent de White Line (1913) vendu par Sotheby’s en 2017.
theticker.org
The Adler family sued the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation over the ownership of Pablo Picasso’s Woman Ironing, which Adler’s family purchased in 1916 and later sold under pressure during Nazi persecution; the painting later came to the Guggenheim after Thannhauser’s death in 1976 and has been on display since 1978.
theviolinchannel.com
The Violin Channel reports that the Violin Society of America issued a stolen alert for a Kurt Gutter violin and a stamped Tourte bow. The incident occurred in Brooklyn, New York, with contact information provided for tips.
salonprivemag.com
Christie’s offered Old Masters in January with two live sales; the Safra collection sale totaled $62,776,666. Top results included Jean-Baptiste Oudry drawings at $2.7 million, Turner and van Cleve pieces, and Goya’s Portrait of Doña María Vicenta Barruso Valdés and her mother at $16.42 million.
washingtonclassicalreview.com
Rachel Barton Pine performed Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra led by Christopher Zimmerman at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts. The piece, composed in 1952 and rediscovered in 2009, was described as driven by Price’s personal need to write a concerto, amid prejudices she faced as a Black woman.
scmp.com
The article discusses a 1731 Guarneri violin known as the Baltic, likely to fetch over US$10 million at auction. It notes it was made by Giuseppe del Gesù Guarneri, its owner Lam Sau-wing (a late Chinese-American philanthropist who collected instruments), and mentions auction house involvement by Tarisio, with reference to cellist Jian Wang as one beneficiary of Lam’s philanthropy.
theviolinchannel.com
The Violin Channel reports that Arabella Steinbacher released a new Pentatone disc featuring Bach and Pärt, performed with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and Christoph Koncz. The program includes Bach A minor, E major, and D minor double concertos, along with Pärt pieces Fratres and Spiegel im Spiegel.
nytimes.com
Ronald S. Lauder reaches an agreement to restitute and repurchase Gustav Klimt's painting “The Black Feather Hat” with the heirs of Irene Beran, who owned it before World War II. The work will remain with Lauder, who has held it for about 50 years, and terms of the purchase were not disclosed.
artsandcollections.com
The page discusses Sotheby’s London March sales featuring Kandinsky with Murnau mit Kirche II, Edvard Munch with Dance on the Beach and The Reinhardt Frieze context, and mentions the paintings’ histories and significance.
news.artnet.com
Wassily Kandinsky's 1910 painting Murnau mit Kirche II is expected to fetch about $45 million at Sotheby’s London. The work was restituted to the heirs of its former Jewish owner, Johanna Margarete Stern, by the Van Abbemuseum after a 12-year dispute. The article notes the painting’s significance in Kandinsky’s development of abstract art and references the previous auction record of €33 million ($41.8 million).
artnews.com
Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau with Church II, 1910, is being auctioned by Sotheby’s after restitution to the original German-Jewish owners. The painting is expected to fetch around $45 million at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London on March 1. The work’s restitution involved Johanna Margarete Stern and Siegbert Samuel Stern’s heirs, with provenance traced to the Van Abbemuseum and a six-year legal battle; proceeds will support the Stern family’s remaining collection.
cremonasera.it
The article reports that at Teatro Argentina in Rome a Stradivari cello from 1711, named Mara, survived a shipwreck in the Rio de la Plata and will be played by cellist Christian Poltera with pianist Kathryn Stott, in a program of Brahms, Chopin and Prokofiev for the Accademia Filarmonica Romana. The Mara cello, built by Antonio Stradivari in Cremona in 1711, is named after its first known owner Giovanni Mara, and has a detailed provenance through many notable owners before its recovery after a shipwreck; restoration in London took three years (1961-1963) after being submerged.
agi.it
The Italian news piece reports that a Stradivari cello from 1711, named Mara, survived a shipwreck and will be played by Christian Poltera at Teatro Argentina in Rome, accompanied by Kathryn Stott. The instrument, recovered after a long restoration from a Rio de la Plata shipwreck in 1961, is now entrusted to Poltera for a program including Brahms, Chopin, and Prokofiev works.
Christie’s
Christie’s documents the market development behind ["CHRISTIE’S ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL ART+TECH SUMMIT IN U.A.E AT ART DUBAI - Christie's", 'CHRISTIE’S ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL ART+TECH SUMMIT IN U.A.E AT ART DUBAI']. Its account reports that christie’s was an early leader in understanding the importance of the relationship between the art world and the tech sphere, presenting the first Art and Tech Summit in 2018 at its London headquarters.
roughlydaily.com
Elly Fishman reports on master craftsman John Becker repairing a Stradivarius owned by Joshua Bell, a 310-year-old instrument valued up to $15 million, with two other violinists noting repairs and future work.
Christie’s
Christie’s documents the market development behind ["MEMORY OF A SURREAL JOURNEY: PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COLLECTION’COLLECTION OF 25 WORKS SHOWCASES POWERFUL DIALOGUE BETWEEN EUROPE, AMERICA AND LATIN AMERICA - Christie's", 'MEMORY OF A SURREAL JOURNEY: PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COLLECTION’COLLECTION OF 25 WORKS SHOWCASES POWERFUL DIALOGUE BETWEEN EUROPE, AMERICA AND LATIN AMERICA']. Its account reports that london – Christie’s will offer ‘Memory of a Surreal Journey: Property from an Important San Francisco Bay Area’, a collection of 25 works dedicated to showcasing the magical interpretations of the world by leading artists of the surrealist movement across Europe, Latin America, and America.