Georges Braque News
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Paul Cezanne’s “Les Pommes” sold for $41.6 million at Sotheby’s in New York last night, the top price in a $230 million Impressionist and modern art sale.
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A collection of 66 magnums of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild spanning the years between 1945 and 2008 is poised to lead a two-day Christie’s International Plc wine auction in Geneva this month, according to its online catalog.
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Billionaire cosmetics magnate Leonard A. Lauder pledged a 78-piece art collection, including 33 Picassos, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the museum announced yesterday.
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A German government panel said a museum in Cologne should return a portrait by Oskar Kokoschka valued at 3 million euros ($3.9 million) to the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim, a Jewish art dealer persecuted by the Nazis.
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The morning after Acquavella Galleries opened its “Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism” exhibition last month, some of the top modern-art dealers rushed to see the French painter’s first major New York retrospective since 1988.
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The heir of a prominent Jewish art dealer who fled Adolf Hitler’s Germany urged the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to relinquish paintings by Paul Klee and Juan Gris that he says were lost due to Nazi persecution.
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“The most important painting of the twentieth century.” This was said of Pablo Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” before the century was even half over. It remains one of the most original and disturbing works in the history of art.
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The French have been slow in coming to terms with one of the darkest chapters of their history, the German Occupation in World War II.
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A Paul Gauguin still life is the most highly estimated of the works that may raise as much as 109 million pounds ($169 million) at a London auction next month.
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The beautiful, sad-looking Olga Kokhlova, a dancer with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, sits with her right arm draped over the back of a chair, a partially open fan in her lap. The dark floral patterns of her dress and the upholstery stand out against the flat background of pale gold.
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