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Banksy, Mobile Lovers (2014) is valued at $670,000 (£400,000) on Antiques Roadshow. The work was brought for appraisal by the Broad Plain Boys’ Club in Bristol, which later received a letter from Banksy allowing the club to keep the piece.
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Paul Signac Les Tours Vertes, La Rochelle (1913) is mentioned as part of a loan to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Pablo Picasso Fillette Aux Nattes Et Au Chapeau Vert (1956) is noted as on loan from a private collection; Francis Bacon Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) sold for $142.4 million at Christie’s and later appeared on loan at the Portland Art Museum; the article discusses Oregon’s lack of a use tax and how museums benefit from loans through private collectors, including Elaine Wynn’s loan of the Bacon triptych.
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Max Liebermann, Schafherde (1888) led Villa Grisebach's 19th Century Art sale with a €575,000 result. Joseph Anton Koch followed with Landschaft mit Apoll unter den Hirten (c. 1836) at €312,500. The sale total was €18.5 million for spring sales, with overall results at €3 million for the 19th Century Art category. Other notable results include Ben Nicholson’s White Relief (1934) at €537,500, Eduardo Chillida’s Estela a Picasso (1975) at €562,500, František Kupka’s Der Rosafarbene Hut (1906) at €350,000, and Konrad Klapheck’s Im Zeitalter der Gewalt I (1994) at €337,500.
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The press release from Christie's London announces works from The Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection with proceeds to benefit the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Foundation, to be offered at Christie’s London from 8 to 17 July. The star lot is Saint Praxedis by Johannes Vermeer (1655), with an estimate of £6-8 million, supported by material analysis from the Rijksmuseum and Free University, Amsterdam validating Vermeer's authorship.
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Christie’s will auction Saint Praxedis by Johannes Vermeer of Delft (1632-1675) in London on 8 July as part of the Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale. Recent technical analysis by the Rijksmuseum supports Vermeer’s authorship and links the lead white pigment to Dutch painting, with a match to Vermeer’s Diana and her Companions in the Mauritshuis.
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Coline Milliard reports that Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale in London realized £121,957,000 ($207,875,707) with a Monet Water Lilies selling for £31,722,500 ($54,071,001) and Mondrian’s Composition with Red, Blue and Grey selling for £15,202,500 ($25,912,661). The sale saw 96.2 percent by value and 91.3 percent by lot, with 46 lots offered and most selling; proceeds benefited from two major collections, including Seventeen works from Jan Krugier's estate. The article notes the market displaying recovery rather than bullishness and compares results to prior records for Monet and other artists.
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Claude Monet’s Water Lilies (Nympheas), a 1906 painting, sold for £31.7 million (HK$418 million) to an anonymous bidder at a Sotheby’s sale in London. The work is noted as one of the highest sums paid for a Monet, previously belonging to Paul Durand-Ruel and exhibited in major galleries including MoMA in New York and the Musée National d Art Moderne in Paris.
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Kurt Schwitters' Ja-Was?-Bild (1920) sold at Christie's London for £13.9m ($23.7m), surpassing the previous record for Schwitters' work. Alberto Giacometti's Femme de Venise II also featured, selling for £9m ($15.3m). The report notes the work's large size and scarcity on the private market as contributing factors, with Monet also referenced in Sotheby's London sale.
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Kurt Schwitters Ja – Was? – Bild sold for £13,970,500 (US$23,710,964) at Christie’s London on June 24, 2014. The sale was part of a Christie’s Impressionist and modern evening auction that sold 40 of 60 lots (67% sell-through) with total sales including buyer’s premium of £85,784,000 ($146,004,368). Other highlighted works included Balthus Les trois soeurs, and Henri Matisse L’artiste et le modèle nu, with the latter selling for £6,802,500 ($11,577,855).
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The painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, missing for nearly a century, sold for 865,500 euros in Paris, setting a world record for the artist. Sotheby’s organized the auction and noted the work is Sainte Marie-Madeleine en extase and in very good condition.
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Artemisia Gentileschi, Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, sold at Sotheby’s Paris for €865,000 ($1.19 million). The painting set a new world record price for Gentileschi, surpassing the previous record of £419,500 ($684,450) from 1998 according to Artnet Price Database.
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Artemisia Gentileschi's Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy sold for $1.1 million against a $407,352 estimate at Sotheby's Paris on June 26, establishing a new world record for the artist. The painting, rediscovered in the south of France, was part of a sale of old master and 19th century paintings.