Pierre-Auguste Renoir 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 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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A glistening 10-foot-tall painting of “The Birth of Venus” greets visitors to the “Birth of Impressionism” summer exhibition in San Francisco.
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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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A Modigliani painting of his lover topped works by Picasso and Renoir at a $214 million auction that showed increasing demand for big-ticket Impressionist, modern and Surrealist art.
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Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Jan Lievens valued at $20 million have boosted takings generated by the world’s biggest art-and-antiques fair, six weeks after it closed.
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As young 19th-century French ladies grew older, they left behind indoor domestic pastimes like books and piano practice and went outside to remove their clothes and bathe.
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Egypt plans to set up a security control room to monitor all museums after the theft of a $55 million Vincent van Gogh painting in Cairo, Zahi Hawass , head of the country’s antiquities agency said today.
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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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Michael Steinhardt, the former hedge-fund manager who has spent at least $200 million on fine art, is using part of the collection to secure low-cost funding for his latest real estate venture.
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