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Titian's Diana and Callisto was saved for the nation in a £45m ($71.7m) deal with the Duke of Sutherland, with £25m ($39.9m) from the National Gallery and support from National Galleries of Scotland; the companion painting Diana and Actaeon was saved in 2009. The two works will be displayed together on a rotating basis in London and Edinburgh and are part of the Bridgewater Collection.
theartwolf.com
Titian’s Diana and Callisto (1556-9) was acquired for £45 million ($72 million / €54 million) by the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Gallery in London, joining its companion Diana and Actaeon (purchased in 2009) to remain on public display in the UK.
bbc.co.uk
Titian's Diana and Callisto, a Renaissance painting, was bought for the British people by the National Galleries in London and Edinburgh after a £45m deal with its owner, the Duke of Sutherland. The painting is a companion to Diana and Actaeon, which was purchased for £50m in 2009 following a fundraising campaign, and both works will rotate between the galleries after a public display in London.
greekreporter.com
George Embiricos’s heirs sold Cézanne’s The Card Players to the royal family of Qatar for $250 million, according to Vanity Fair. The painting, created in 1890, will be presented at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha. The deal was reportedly higher than competing bids from art dealers William Acquavella and Larry Gagosian.
reuters.com
Andy Warhol's portrait of Elvis Presley, titled Double Elvis (Ferus Type) from 1963, is expected to fetch as much as $50 million at Sotheby's May sale of post-war and contemporary art. The piece is described by Sotheby's as featuring a silver background and rhythmic variation, with a shadowy Elvis image and a reference to Warhol's 200 One Dollar Bills; the work previously related sales reached near $44 million in 2009.
museumpublicity.com
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of The Italian Comedians (ca. 1720) by Jean-Antoine Watteau. The painting is oil on canvas and measures 50 7/8 by 36 3/4 inches. The work joins other 18th century French paintings at the Getty, including works by Nicolas Lancret, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, and Claude-Joseph Vernet.
enfilade18thc.com
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of The Italian Comedians (ca. 1720) by Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721). The painting measures 50 7/8 x 36 3/4 inches. Other 18th-century French paintings by Nicolas Lancret, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, and Claude-Joseph Vernet are already in the Getty collection. The scene depicts five fairground comedians costumed from the Comédie Italienne, including Pierrot, about to collect money after a performance.
nytimes.com
Doreen Carvajal reports that Ginette Heilbronn Moulin pursues a claim against the Wildenstein family over a missing Monet, ‘Torrent de la Creuse’ by Claude Monet, believed stolen during a 1941 Gestapo raid; authorities opened a preliminary investigation and an anti-art-trafficking squad is examining World War II documents related to the painting.
theartwolf.com
Edward Hopper Intermission, 1963, oil on canvas, 40 x 60 in., was acquired by SFMOMA in part through gifts from the Fisher and Schwab families. The work, one of Hopper's largest and most ambitious paintings, was acquired from Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and is connected to Hopper's late period and career retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1964 and 1982, with the 1964 retrospective traveling to SFMOMA.
sfgate.com
Edward Hopper’s Intermission (1963) has been acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from Fraenkel Gallery, with gifts from the Fisher and Schwab families. The painting will go on view at SFMOMA, and the piece is among Hopper’s largest and most ambitious works; the article notes price is not disclosed and references a past Hopper sale, the 1955 Hotel Window, which fetched $26.9 million.
museumpublicity.com
Cindy Sherman Untitled #96 (1981) is being consigned by the Akron Art Museum for sale with Christie’s. The work has an estimated price of $2,800,000 to $3,800,000, with proceeds benefiting the museum’s acquisitions fund; another Cindy Sherman work from the Centerfolds series, Untitled #93, is retained in the collection.
en.wikinews.org
Edward Hopper's painting Intermission (1963) was purchased by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The work, sold by a private collector, is valued at over $25 million. The acquisition was made with donor funds via Fraenkel Gallery, and SFMOMA plans to sell Bridal Path (1939) to help fund Intermission.
inquirer.com
The article reports that Lincoln University will gain effective control over the Barnes Foundation and its collection, which is valued at more than $1 billion. It discusses the historical shift after the death of Violette de Mazia and the resulting changes in the foundation's governance, including Lincoln University's new influence over the five-member board.
huffpost.com
Edward Hopper at SFMOMA reports that SFMOMA acquired Hopper's painting Intermission, an early final work measuring 40 by 60 inches featuring a lone woman in a deserted theater. The piece is noted for Hopper's geometric style and themes of isolation; acquisition involved funds from the Schwab and Fischer families, with prior deaccessioning of another Hopper work. The article mentions a related Hopper painting, Hotel Window, purchased for $26.9 million in 2006.
theartwolf.com
Paul Cézanne, 1839-1906, presents Joueur de cartes (A Card Player), 1892-1896, watercolor on laid paper. The work, from the Dr. Heinz F. Eichenwald Collection, is estimated at $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 and was to headline Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on May 1, 2012.
hyperallergic.com
The Met Museum is set to receive $20 million from the Brooke Astor Estate, including $3 million tied to proceeds from the sale of Childe Hassam’s Flags, Fifth Avenue (Up the Avenue from 34th Street, May 1917). The painting’s current whereabouts are unknown after a private sale in 2002, and its absence from display is noted by the Met in its statements about the settlement.
bbc.com
Stolen artworks including Mulberry Centre by Franz Kline, Ink on Paper by Franz Kline, and works by Robert Motherwell, Karel Appel, Jean Dubuffet and Fernand Leger were recovered in Germany; four paintings were recovered in 1988 from the Solomon Gallery theft and one in 2003, with the remainder found in the estate of a dead German art dealer. The four paintings were identified after the dealer's daughter sought authentication from the Dedalus Foundation and alerted the Art Loss Register, which helped locate the pieces.
auctionpublicity.com
Christie’s New York will auction property from the Pincus Collection of Abstract Expressionism, a private American Post War and Contemporary Art collection led by David and Gerry Pincus. The collection includes works by Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Arshile Gorky, Anselm Kiefer, Jeff Wall and Nan Goldin, with a total estimated value exceeding $100 million; proceeds from four de Kooning works will benefit the Pincus Family Foundation.