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bbc.com
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.
euronews.com
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.
artnews.com
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.
designtimes.com
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.
news.artnet.com
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.
galeriemagazine.com
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.
forbesindia.com
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.
salonprivemag.com
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).
artnews.com
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.
theartnewspaper.com
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.”
theartnewspaper.com
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.
jta.org
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.
news.artnet.com
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.
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