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disputeresolutiongermany.com
Gurlitt estate: Berne Museum reaches agreement on Cézanne’s La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, with the Berne Museum of Fine Arts and the Cézanne estate reached in April 2014; the settlement relates to Cézanne’s 1897 painting and allows regular exhibition at Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, as reported by Frankfurter Allgemeine.
christies.com
Artists: Peter Paul Rubens. Artwork: Portrait of Clara Serena Rubens. Sale: Old Masters Evening Sale in London on 5 July. Estimate £3,000,000-5,000,000.
news.artnet.com
The article discusses Paul Cézanne's 1897 La Montagne Sainte-Victoire in the Kunstmuseum Bern that is part of the Cornelius Gurlitt trove. A 2018 report explains an agreement between the Cézanne family and the museum to acknowledge Bern as the rightful owner so the painting can be exhibited regularly at Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, without money exchanged hands.
nomosparis.com
The article discusses the 1945 French ordinance that nullified sales of art looted during World War II and led to the restitution efforts for Camille Pissarro’s painting La Cueillette, formerly owned by Simon Bauer. The case details the initial confiscation by the Vichy regime, subsequent sales, and a 2017 Paris court decision applying the ordinance to allow legal measures to recover the painting.
theartnewspaper.com
The article discusses Sotheby’s Old Masters sale, noting no single blockbuster but solid quality and new buyers from Asia and Latin America, with a total of £42.6m including fees. It highlights Victoria Beckham’s role in selecting portraits, including the top lot Portrait of a Venetian nobleman by Rubens, which sold for £4.6m (£5.4m with fees), and mentions other Beckham-selected works such as Mary of Burgundy and Lucas Cranach the Elder, all selling with irrevocable bids.
theartnewspaper.com
The National Gallery in London acquired Artemisia Gentileschi's Self-portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1615–17) for £3.6m. The work was sold at Drouot in Paris on 19 December for €2.4m and later bought by Robilant + Voena in London, with fundraising support from American Friends of the National Gallery and the Art Fund.
theartnewspaper.com
Ludovico Carracci's Portrait of Carlo Alberto Rati Opizzoni in armour sold for £4.3m (£5m with fees) during Christie’s Old Master evening sale, which totalled £25.8m (£31.1m with fees). Gerard David's The Holy Family set a new artist record at £4.1m (£4.8m with fees). The sale overall was 74% sold and below the pre-sale estimate, with several high-profile works failing to sell. Christie’s emphasized competitive bidding from 26 countries, including Russia and Asia.
alowais.com
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (circa 1615-17) was purchased by London’s National Gallery for £3.6 million ($4.08 million). The work is a rare self-portrait and is the 21st artwork by a female artist in the gallery’s collection of over 2,300 works. The painting had previously been sold at Christophe Joron-Derem in Paris for €1.85 million ($2.9 million) and was acquired after being rediscovered and reattributed, with Letizia Treves commenting on its significance as a self-portrait.
artsy.net
The National Gallery acquired Artemisia Gentileschi's Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1615–17), becoming the first artwork by a female artist purchased by the museum in 27 years. The work is titled Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria and is attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi, with the National Gallery, London credited for the acquisition.
gordonua.com
Yuri Felshtinsky investigates how the sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi at Christie’s and related debts involved Donald Trump and Dmitry Rybolovlev. The article discusses a $95 million debt repayment linked to the 2008 loan and the Saudi/UAE bidding dynamics around Salvator Mundi, with Christie’s noting underpainting details.
centralmaine.com
The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville has acquired Jackson Pollock's 1941 oil-on-canvas Composition with Masked Forms for an undisclosed price, calling it a turning point for Pollock and the Maine collection; Adam D. Weinberg of the Whitney Museum calls the acquisition a real coup.
pressherald.com
Jackson Pollock's 1941 oil on canvas Composition with Masked Forms was acquired by Colby College Museum of Art for an undisclosed price. The museum calls the purchase a turning point and the acquisition is described as a real coup by Adam D. Weinberg of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
theartnewspaper.com
Banksy painting sells for record £1.5m as greatest hits show opens at Lazinc gallery in London; works including Show Me the Monet (2005) and Media at War (2006) are expected to be worth over £5m, with some pieces priced up to £1.5m
elle.com
Artemisia Gentileschi: il quadro acquistato dalla National Gallery di Londra è Autoritratto come Santa Caterina d’Alessandria, datato tra il 1615 e il 1617, acquistato per 3,6 milioni di sterline e ora in restauri. L’artista è figlia di Orazio Gentileschi; la storia della sua vita comprende l’abuso da parte di Agostino Tassi e le conseguenze sociali della sua denuncia.
hyperallergic.com
The National Gallery in London acquired Artemisia Gentileschi’s self-portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a work offered for sale in 2017 and later sold at auction for $3.6 million, setting a new record for the artist. The article notes it is among only about 20 works by women owned by the National Gallery and references prior acquisitions such as Orazio Gentileschi’s Danaë for $30.49 million and the BBC report on the 1991 milestone.
news.artnet.com
The article discusses a legal battle between Enrico Navarra Gallery and Marlborough Gallery over alleged interference with a contract involving Chu Teh-Chun, a Chinese-French abstract painter. The dispute originated in Paris in 2007 and moved to New York in 2010, with multiple rulings and appeals over more than a decade. An appeal decision is anticipated before the end of the summer.
collection.sina.com.cn
阿特米谢-简特内斯基的自画像《亚历山大圣凯瑟琳自画像》被英国国家美术馆以约360万英镑购入，成为馆藏第21件女性艺术家作品。画家阿特米谢-简特内斯基（Artemisia Gentileschi, 1593-1653）为意大利巴洛克时期著名女画家。
apollo-magazine.com
The National Gallery in London acquired Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1615–17), currently undergoing conservation. The piece underscores Gentileschi's rising prominence in Italian Baroque painting and reflects broader scholarly attention to her work in recent decades.
news.artnet.com
Pablo Picasso. Artwork: Fillette à la corbeille fleurie (1905). $835 million from the Rockefeller collection, total first-half sales to almost £3 billion ($4 billion). Other figures: private sales rose to £287 million ($390.3 million); online-only sales rose to £27.7 million ($37.7 million); 55 lots sold for more than $10 million. USD and GBP present. Christie’s.
medievalists.net
The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired the Rothschild Pentateuch, a late 13th century medieval Hebrew manuscript dated 1296. The manuscript, created by an unknown artist, features abundant illumination, micrography, and hybrid motifs, with the opening of each book celebrated by ornate initials; it may have been written in France for Jewish émigrés expelled from England in 1290, with illumination likely completed in France or Germany.
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s documents the market development behind Three Restituted Masterpieces Offered at Auction in London. Its account reports that t is rather unusual to have three restituted paintings in one auction, but in our 4 July Old Masters Evening sale in 2018, we were honoured to offer three such works.
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s documents the market development behind Tate Modern Unveils William Kentridge’s Latest Commission. Its account reports that two million Africans served in the First World War as carriers and porters for the British, French and German forces; 300 porters were needed just to haul a single canon.