Old Masters News
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The heirs of Richard Semmel, a Jewish industrialist persecuted by the Nazis, said they’re “outraged” by a Dutch government panel’s decision to reject their claim for two Old Masters on the grounds that the works are more important to the museums which house them now than they are to the heirs.
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Daring million-dollar art heists make headlines. But for valuable collections, there are dangers lurking in more mundane places: moving vans, elbows, pooches.
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Berlin’s Botticellis, Rembrandts and Titians won a reprieve as museum authorities announced they are reconsidering plans to move them from their home at the Gemaeldegalerie to make way for 20th-century art.
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Berlin’s Botticellis, Rembrandts and Titians are at the center of a stormy debate as plans to take them out of the Gemaeldegalerie to make way for 20th-century art spark online petitions and furious newspaper columns.
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Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch are waiting for Berlin to decide whether it can house their collection of Surrealist art, with paintings by Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy and Joan Miro.
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A Picasso painting was among early sales as Ronald Lauder, Kanye West and Sheikh Saud al Thani were among VIPs browsing the world’s biggest art and antiques fair.
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The German government said it will hand over to the Netherlands eight Old Masters that belonged to Dutch Jews before the Nazi occupation and were later seized from their East German owner by the communist regime.
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A rediscovered painting by Velazquez sold for 3 million pounds ($4.7 million) at an auction in London today as wealthy international collectors battled for trophy Old Master paintings.
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Portraits by Velazquez and Goya are the main attractions in a 55.6-million-pound ($86.5 million) series of Old Master auctions in London next month that have struggled to lure big-ticket works by major artists.
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Albrecht Durer’s woodcut titled “The Rhinoceros” set an auction record for the German Renaissance artist with a purchase price of $866,500 at Christie’s in New York yesterday.
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