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leparisien.fr
The Le Parisien article reports that the National Museum of Modern Art at Beaubourg will receive five new works by Henri Matisse (four oils and one charcoal drawing) as a donation in payment of estate duties from Marie Matisse. The total value of the donation is about 227.5 million francs (roughly 34.68 million euros), and the works will join Beaubourg's reserves before being displayed in February 2002.
lejournaldesarts.fr
La Cour d’appel de Paris annule la vente d’un tableau présenté comme de l’atelier de Nicolas Poussin, La Fuite en Égypte, et ordonne sa restitution au vendeur. Le tableau avait été adjugé en 1986 et remis en cause après des expertises qui ont finalement abouti à reconnaître l’authenticité contestée.
latimes.com
Camille Pissarro's 1893 painting La Rue Saint-Lazare sold for $6,605,750 at Sotheby’s, setting a record for the artist. The sale was part of a $33.1 million Impressionist and modern art auction, with Matisse and Braque works also highlighted.
haaretz.com
Nimrod, the Mighty Hunted is reported on Haaretz within a Sothebys Tel Aviv auction context. The article notes a failed sale with 35 percent sold for $662,350, compares it to a previous April sale, and cites prices for works by Reuven Rubin, Tsibi Geva, James Fairman, Marc Chagall, Moise Kisling, and others, including a forged Nimrod sculpture attributed to Itzhak Danziger removed from the sale at Sonia Danziger's request.
theartnewspaper.com
The New York attorneys of Jen Lissitzky, son of El Lissitzky, filed a complaint on 13 July against the Beyeler Foundation seeking the return of Wassily Kandinsky’s Improvisation No.10, looted by the Nazis in 1937; the dispute concerns the Sophie-Küppers-Lissitzky collection. Two other paintings from the collection have already been returned, including one from a Japanese museum.
welt.de
Ernst Beyeler, Basler Galerist und Museumsstifter, feiert seinen 80. Geburtstag. Eine Klage gegen die Fondation Beyeler wurde vor dem Basler Zivilgericht eingereicht von Jen Lissitzky, der ein Bild aus der Sammlung seiner verstorbenen Mutter Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers zurückfordert. Das Bild ist Kandinskys Improvisation Nr. 10 aus dem Jahr 1910, ein als Schlüsselwerk der abstrakten Kunst geltendes Werk, dessen Wert auf rund 25 Millionen US-Dollar geschätzt wird.
latimes.com
The article discusses Claude Monet’s Impressionist painting The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light going on view at the Getty Museum, noting its provenance and price context from Monet’s Rouen Cathedral series, with related acquisitions including Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, and Hans Hoffmann works, and a total acquisitions outlay for 2000-2001 around $50 million.
elpais.com
La subasta en Londres de dos cuadros de Claude Monet, Almiares, los últimos rayos de sol y Au parc Monceau, superó los tres mil millones de pesetas. Uno de los cuadros, Almiares, se adjudicó por 10 millones de libras y forma parte de una serie de estudios pintados en 1890-91; parte de los beneficios irán a los descendientes de sus antiguos propietarios, una pareja de judíos alemanes expropiada por los nazis en 1935. El Au parc Monceau estuvo asociado a Ludwig Kainer y su esposa Margret, expoliados por los nazis.