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Collectors who covet a tapestry designed by a contemporary artist are spoilt for choice these ...
Georges Seurat, 1859-1891, Au Divan japonais, Conté crayon and gouache on paper. Executed circa 1887-88, 750 000-1 000 000 €. Sold : 4 992 750 €. World record for a drawing by Seurat. Second highest price ever achieved for a work by Seurat at auction.
The celebrated American artist, Jeff Koons, known for sublimating the banal to the realms of art, is currently holding a show in the Versailles outside Paris, where his large and colourful works either pay homage to the Baroque and Rococo palace and the artists Fragonard and Boucher, or refer to actual happenings inside the Sun King’s chateau.
â€There is no way you are going to hang a stuffed fish in our family room, Buster!â€
The National Gallery is to host a major Picasso exhibition in the New Year, it emerged today. Seventy paintings, including 10 of his most important works, will reveal how the artist plundered the Old Masters and Impressionists.
The popular online art gallery, OverstockArt.com, has officially released the annual Top 10 Oil Paintings rankings for 2008. After a complete domination of the top spot by renowned Dutch master, Vincent Van Gogh, a relative new comer, Gustav Klimt, has taken over with his masterpiece, The Kiss, and blew everyone away.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Actress Faye Dunaway , surrounded by a pack of photographers, posed yesterday at Art Basel Miami Beach, part of a weeklong art fair that even a brutal recession can’t kill.
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» Children's Museum of Stockton: Hands-on, play-based exhibits of a small city with bank, post office, grocery store, hospital, newsroom, movie theater, fire truck, police car, ongoing. Hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tues.-Fri.; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat.; noon-5 p.m.
René Magritte, The Enchanted Spot, 1953 (c) VBK, Vienna 2008 / Albertina, Vienna - Batliner Collection. VIENNA.-
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