Paul Gauguin News
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On February 17, 1901, a young Spanish poet and close friend of Pablo Picasso’s named Carles Casagemas invited several people to a Paris restaurant. After dinner he pulled out a gun, fired at one of his guests -- a model with whom he was in love -- then, having missed her, shot himself.
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New York’s Armory Week attracts hundreds of galleries to two piers on the Hudson River and an actual armory across town on Park Avenue.
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Romanian prosecutors are investigating the mother of a suspect allegedly involved in the theft of paintings from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam after she said she burned two of the works, Evenimentul Zilei reported, citing unidentified people in the judiciary.
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The western facade of the Rouen cathedral, painted by Claude Monet at different times of day and in different light, is a trademark of Impressionism. To discover 11 of the 28 versions hanging side by side at Rouen’s Musee des Beaux-Arts is alone worth the trip.
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Three men have been arrested in Romania on suspicion of involvement in the theft of paintings from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, Dutch police said.
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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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A 26-year-old hairdresser tires of her shampoo-and-blow-dry routine and decides to get educated.
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The plan may be flawless, the booty priceless and the robbery perfectly executed. Yet art thieves seldom consider how they will get rich from their stolen masterpieces, art-crime experts said.
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A first edition of Adam Smith’s “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” could sell for as much as $120,000 at auction next month.
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In Vincent van Gogh ’s “Portrait of the Artist” (1887), his orange-red hair and beard glow so brightly against the dark-green background that it seems his head is on fire.
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