The Nippon Music Foundation announced the 2024 recipients of its 30th instrument loan committee. VC Young Artist Maria Dueñas received Stradivarius 1710 Violin Camposelice; Minami Yoshida received Stradivarius 1716 Violin Booth; Zlatomir Fung and Michiaki Ueno received instruments including cellos; the Goldmund Quartet received Stradivarius Paganini Quartet; Dmytro Udovychenko was loaned the 1708 Huggins Stradivarius as part of his Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition prize. The Foundation now holds 21 string instruments including 15 Stradivarius violins, 1 viola, 3 cellos, and 2 Guarneri del Gesu violins.
Shannon Kim found a piece she believes is a Marc Chagall at an estate sale in Orange County, California, after paying about $2. A Christie’s insider weighed in but not everyone agreed it is by Chagall, and a $20,000 valuation was mentioned.
The article reports Vivian Fung writing a solo violin and electronics work commissioned by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation for violinist Nancy Zhou, with a premiere planned for 2026. It highlights Zhou's background, her connection to the Mutter Foundation, and Fung's commission as inspired by Zhou’s identity and cultural themes.
The article discusses the return of a Nazi-looted Egon Schiele drawing, Seated Nude Woman, front view, to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum. The handover occurred in New York, with Timothy Reif and relatives receiving the work, which had been stolen from Grünbaum by the Nazis and later recovered from Gustav Fritz Papanek’s home.
This article reports the restitution ceremony in New York where a Nazi-looted drawing by Egon Schiele, Seated Nude Woman (1918), was returned to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum. The work had been in the possession of the Papanek family before they sought out Grünbaum’s heirs to return it.
The Violin Channel reports that Frans Helmerson has been appointed Professor of the Advanced Cello Course at Cremona’s Stauffer Academy, succeeding Antonio Meneses. Helmerson will lead the Advanced Cello Course starting in the 2024/25 academic year, with masterclasses involving Nicolas Altstaedt, Enrico Dindo, and Giovanni Sollima.
Pablo Picasso drawing Trois femmes nues et buste d'homme (1969) purchased for $1.2m at Christie’s New York in 2014; US Justice Department reached a deal with Jasmine Loo Ai Swan to recover the artwork and a Swiss bank account tied to 1MDB embezzlement.”
The US Justice Department reached an agreement with Jasmine Loo Ai Swan to recover a Picasso drawing that sold at Christie’s in 2014, tied to 1MDB funds. The forfeiture order also涉及 works by Picasso, Monet, van Gogh, Basquiat, and Arbus connected to Low Taek Jho, with specific artworks including van Gogh’s La Maison de Vincent à Arles, Picasso’s Nature morte au crâne de taureau, Basquiat’s Redman One, Arbus’s Boy with the Toy Hand Grenade, and Monet’s Saint-Georges majeur, along with €25.3 million from Monet’s second work sale.
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The Nippon Music Foundation loans the Guarneri del Gesù Muntz violin of 1736 to violinist Youjin Lee under its Instrument Loan Project. Lee, originally from South Korea and a student of Boris Kushnir in Graz, has a history of competition successes and performances with various orchestras.
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Titian’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt sold for £17,560,000 ($22,178,280 / €20,633,000), a new world auction record for the artist. Quentin Metsys’s The Madonna of the Cherries realized £10,660,000 ($13,463,580 / €12,525,500), a new world auction record for the artist. The Old Masters Part I Sale total was £43,594,800 ($55,060,232 / €51,223,890) and Christie’s Classic Week London running total reached £53,609,182 ($67,708,397 / €62,990,789).
The article discusses AstaGuru's upcoming July auction and private exhibition featuring international icons such as Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Amedeo Modigliani, highlighting growing Indian interest in global art at comparable price levels.
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Titian sold for more than $22 million at Christie’s Old Masters sale in London, setting a new auction record. The work, looted by Napoleon’s troops and later recovered, depicts Mary, Joseph, and Jesus resting during their journey to Egypt.
The page covers Maxim Vengerov visiting Casa Stradivari as the second guest of its Artistic Residency. It mentions the return of the 1727 Kreutzer Stradivari to Cremona, Vengerov’s Violin Masterclass with three prize-winning young musicians, and a Round Table titled The Resonances of Stradivari.
Valuable violin found in trash sings again discusses a violin that was previously discovered in trash and has gained renewed attention. The article is published by ANSA on TopNews.
A damaged violin found among trash in Trieste was restored by a local master and identified as an instrument from the 18th century with an estimated value around 60,000 euros. The instrument was played at a concert in Piazza Unità d’Italia, featuring a 13-year-old Austrian girl, Lorea Mimura, who won an international competition.
The Titian painting Rest on the Flight into Egypt (ca. 1508–10) sold for £17.6 million ($22.1 million) including fees at Christie’s Old Masters sale in London, setting a new auction record for Titian. The work, measuring 18 by 25 inches, has a storied provenance and was stolen twice, with its most recent theft in 1995 from Longleat; it previously appeared in collections including Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and is now in the Prado via a kunstkammer series.
Titian’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt, a painting attributed to Titian, was recovered after being stolen and sold for 22.3 million dollars at Christie's. The work is described as having been found inside a plastic bag, contributing to a high-profile sale at a major auction house. The piece originates from Venice and dates to around 1510.
Titian's Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c.1510) sold for $22,178,280 at Christie’s London, setting an auction record for the artist. The piece is a wooden panel painting measuring 18 by 25 inches and depicted Mary with Jesus and Joseph; it was estimated at $20-30 million. Christie’s notes the work has passed through major European collections and was once owned by the 4th Marquess of Bath.
Vienna Symphonic Library announces Synchron Solo Violin and Synchron Solo Cello, recorded in Synchron Stage Vienna with soloists Marina Dimitrova and Florian Eggner. Introductory prices are €165 for the Standard Library and €230 for the Full Library, with further 10% discount when buying both collections; prices note reg. €220 and €310 respectively.
Titian’s painting The Rest on the Flight into Egypt sold for €20.6m at Christie’s in London, setting a new world record for Titian. The work was stolen multiple times, including from Longleat House, and was recovered from a plastic bag at a London bus stop by Charles Hill.
Titian painting Rest On The Flight Into Egypt, painted around 1510, sold for £17.6m at Christie’s. The work, stolen in 1995 from Longleat, Wiltshire, was recovered in 2002 and is described as a unique rarity by Christie's.
The Violin Channel reports a 1754 Giovanni Battista Gabrielli violin was stolen on a train in Belgium on June 21, 2024, around 9:00–10:20 AM on IC 3130 between Antwerp and Bruxelles Midi. The instrument was in a black carbon GEWA violin case with multiple stickers, accompanied by two bows: one by Claude Thomassin (made 1910–1920) and another marked Penzel; ownership is listed as Valerie Leopold, with Leopold’s name on the case handle. Contact information for tips is provided.