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New record price paid for a work by Modigliani

The new record price paid for a work by Amedeo Modigliani of $35 million dollars has caused a great impact in the art world. This historic transaction took place near Geneva, in Switzerland. This is the most valuable Modigliani work. Today the great art collectors continue to demand works by Amedeo Modigliani. This world record of $35 million...

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The 10th Art Forum Berlin, September 28, October 3, 2005

ART FORUM BERLIN presents the high hopes of the international art world and invites its audience to discover new talents and the latest works of acclaimed international stars. Celebrating Art with a Brilliant Start into the Autumn Season: the 10th ART FORUM BERLIN The 10th ART FORUM BERLIN keeps up with its tradition exhibiting the most...

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Versace heirs could raise $17m from New York art sale

New York- The heirs of Italian designer Gianni Versace are hoping to raise as much as $17 million from the sale of art by the likes of Roy Lichtenstein from his New York home. The sale of property from Versace's New York townhouse aims to beat the $10 million raised at auction in 2001 when the heirs of the murdered designer sold furniture, art and...

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Online art school in line for a top honour

SCOTLAND'S first virtual art school has been nominated for a national competition. The Midlothian-based Studio Art School will face competition from the BBC and London's Tate Gallery in the New Statesman New Media Awards. The online school, which was set up in a Loanhead farmhouse in October, has been nominated in the education section for the body...

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Krakov's National Museum, Exhibition -Isaac Celnikier - until March 30, 2005

Krakow's National Museum presents the first monographic presentation of Isaac Celnikier's oeuvre in Poland through March 30, 2005. Its purpose is to acquaint the Polish viewers with the creation of Isaac Celnikier � a painter, drawer and graphic artist, who in 1957 settled in France. The exhibition will feature approximately 120 paintings, 30...

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Elizabeth Taylor contests new suite regarding her Van Gogh

In May, the actress Elizabeth Taylor requested a declaration from the federal trial court in Los Angeles that she owns a painting by Van Gogh, after heirs of a Jew who fled Nazi Berlin claimed the work. Now she is seeking to dismiss a separate lawsuit by the heirs which is pending in the same court. In a complaint seeking restitution of...

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Prince of Liechenstein had bought Badminton Cabinet for over � 19 million

The Badminton Cabinet, a magnificently ornate piece of furniture standing four metres high, made in Florence in the early 18th century, sold for a stunning �19,045,250 ($35.8 million) in London on 9 December2004.It was bought by Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, for the Museum of Liechtenstein in Vienna, where it will go on public show in...

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Exhibition - Durer -Prado, Spain, March 2005

This March, the Museo del Prado will be presenting the exhibition "D�rer. Masterpieces from the Albertina", a unique opportunity to see most of the collection of works by Albrecht D�rer in the Albertina in Vienna, exhibited for the first time in Spain. The Albertina houses the world�s greatest collection of prints and drawings by the artist....

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Sotheby's Amsterdam - sale on Tuesday 22 March

Sotheby's Amsterdam will hold its Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings sale on Tuesday 22 March. It offers attractive paintings, watercolours and drawings from all periods for accessible prices. The sale offers an attractive beach view Unloading the catch by Johannes Hermanus Barend Koekkoek (Dutch 1840-1912), The oil on panel of 19 by 33...

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Exhibition Rodin, Valencia Spain, March 2005

Valencia, Spain The IVAM, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern presents Auguste Rodin - Erotic drawings through March 20, 2005. Auguste Rodin is well-known as the most important sculptor of the nineteenth century. Throughout his career, however, he produced not only sculptures but also book illustrations, etchings and drawings of nudes, mostly women....

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Exhibition "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", North Carolina Museum Arts

The exhibition "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris" just closed at the North Carolina Museum of Art as its second-biggest show ever. Museum director Larry Wheeler estimated the exhibition would draw 100,000 visitors, then revised his guess to 110,000. The total number of visitors are around 123,452. The Auguste Rodin exhibit drew 190,000...

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Top artworks stolen Sunday, January 9, at the Westfries Museum

Around 20 paintings and several silver items were stolen Sunday at the Westfries Museum in Hoorn. The 17th century paintings are worth around 10 million euros. Among the stolen works were paintings by Jan Rietschoof, Matthias Withoos, Jacob Waben, Jan van Goyen, and Jan Linsenand Herman Henstenburg. The theft was discovered Monday morning when the...

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Jerusalem, Israel

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL.- The Jerusalem Municipality officials rejected a proposal to bring a replica of Rodin�s The Thinker because of haredi opposition because it is a nude figure, reported The Jerusalem Post. The Rodin Museum was going to be given to the city of Jerusalem as a gift, almost a 100 years after it was first unveiled in front of the...

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Auction - Sotheby's - Impresionist art, February 8, 2005

Sotheby's evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art to be held on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 features an array of works by Degas. From Degas' studies of ballet dancers through to Delvaux's depiction of Venus, the selection of paintings demonstrate what a vital element women played to some of the most important artists of the 19th and 20th...

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Ice sculpture, Moscow

An ice sculpture of New York's Statue of Liberty stands 06 January 2005 on the Red Square in Moscow.

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Collections for sale in 2004

In April and November 2004, Sotheby's New York offered for sale an extraordinary collection of over 800 books and letters from the Collection of Maurice F. Neville, the finest collection of Modern Literature to appear on the market in over twenty five years. It includes a remarkable array of inscribed first editions, letters and manuscripts of such...

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Wellcome Trust to set up a public centre for science and the arts

The Wellcome Trust, the world�s largest charity, has announced plans for a �20 million public centre for science and the arts. It will be housed in the trust�s original 1930s headquarters at Euston Road, in a conversion which is being designed by Hopkins Architects. Opening in autumn 2006, the new centre will have two permanent galleries for...

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Budapest Museum of Fine Arts

Dr Ba�n's first initiative in his new post - new director of Budapest Museum of Fine Arts- was to order the sprucing up of the museum's long-neglected lawns and the dismantling of an ugly two-metre high chipboard fence that had surrounded the massive neo-Classical building for the past ten years, erected for renovation work that never happened. In...

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Louvres unveils record Apollo Gallery

The Apollo Gallery at the Louvre, the first royal gallery built for Louis XIV in 1661, re-opens to the public on 27 November after a three-year comprehensive renovation. The original gilt fittings, stucco decoration and 105 decorative paintings and sculptures were restored as part of the project. These include ceiling murals by Charles Le Brun and...

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Shchukin family makes peace with Russia

Donation ends 50 years of conflict Andre-Marc Deloque-Forcaud, the grandson of the Russian industrialist and collector, Sergei Shchukin, has donated six French paintings from his grandfather's collection to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (PMFA), effectively ending a half-century of conflict between his family and Russia over the question of...

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A long-lost painting by Swedish Carl Larsson will be auctioned

STOCKHOLM, Sweden Nov 18, 2004 � A long-lost painting by Swedish master Carl Larsson will be auctioned off next week after it was discovered tucked away in a private collection in France for more than a century, an auction house said Thursday. "Boenskoerd," or "Bean Harvest" in English, was completed by Larsson, one of Sweden's best-known...

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Moma reopens after overhaul

Source: www.cnn.com November 21, 2004 NEW YORK (Reuters) -- New York's Museum of Modern Art reopened to the public Saturday after a two-year, $825 million renovation and expansion that about doubled its size. MoMA, one of the city's most renowned museums, waived its $20 admission fee for the day and drew thousands of art lovers from...

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A Tahitian work by Gauguin sells for $39,2 M

Source: www.artdaily.com 6 November, 2004 NEW YORK.- Tonight at Sotheby's a masterpiece by Paul Gauguin, Maternit� (II), sold for $39,208,000, a record for the artist at auction. The Tahitian scene was the highlight of a sale of Impressionist and Modern Art which totaled $194,289,600, the highest total for a various owner's sale at Sotheby's in...

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Exhibition, Rafael, National Gallery, London

Exhibition, Rafael, National Gallery, London -since October 20

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Exhibition, Museum Hermitage Amsterdam, September 18, 2004-February 13, 2005

Exhibition "Nicolas&Alexandra" - The last Tsar and Tsarina Art objects September 18, 2004- March 13, 2005 Source: www.hermitage.nl (You can see more details to this address) Image downloaded on the website:www.hermitage.nl

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October 15, the second edition-Frieze Art Fair, London

Source: The Guardian Charlotte Higgins) London is one of the dominant forces in the world's contemporary art market, second only to New York. At least that's the conclusion suggested by the success of the Frieze art fair, which opened in the capital yesterday. At last year's inaugural event, dealers sold art works worth up to �20m,...

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Winter Fair&Antiques Fair, London, November 8 - November 14, 2004

Olympia National Hall, Hammersmith Road, London

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Asian Art in London, November 4 - November 12, 2004

Asian Art in London Asian Art in London is a event incorporating major London Asian Antique dealers and Auction Houses together with England's finest institutions for a series of exhibitions, auctions, sales and lectures. Pieces selectioned of Asia Antiques from India, China, Japan, Hymalaia, Korea, spanning some 5000 years of culture, including...

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Bruges, International Art Salon&Antiquies

Bruges, Belgium October 23 - November 1, 2004 International Art Salon&Antiquies Bruges Belfry - Grand Palace This is Autumn rendevezvous for collectors, investors and artdealers. Paintings covering the late Middle Ages, the Romantic and Impresionist Movements will be represented as well as painters from all over the world. English, French,...

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Exhibition Moebius - Miyazaki, Monnaie Museum, Paris

Miyazaki-Moebius Exibition, Paris, 15 November 2004 - 9 March 2005. Two major artists unveil their collection of personal drawings to the world for the first time. Moebius and Miyazaki well soon come together to exhibit more than 300 works. Moebius is French, Hayao Miyazaki is Japanese. These two world-builders each have their own field of...

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