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Update – Caravaggio…
LANCELOT WILLIAM THWAYTES The Claim Sotheby’s “failed to carry out appropriate research”. Mr Thwaytes seeks unspecified damages relating to the difference between the hammer price of £42,000 and “the true open market value of the painting in 2006”. The claim lists a number of art historians who support Sir Denis Mahon’s attribution including Antonio Paolucci, […]
Inventing Abstraction at MoMa – by Connie Lee
I am delighted to be contributing to AAD for the very first time. I am an opportunist who frequently takes advantage of the fact that many art museums are geographically just down the street from where I live. I live on Fifth Avenue in Harlem, New York City just 19 short blocks north of the […]
Lets go to Roquebrune Cap Martin! By Elizabeth Chase Rochette
LIFE IS EVERYTHING The recently opened Eileen Gray Retrospective at the Centre George Pompidou rightly places Eileen Gray as ‘a total creator’. It is a perfectly elegant and digestible feast of her extensive oeuvre. A film captures Gray (1878-1976) in her apartment on rue Bonaparte towards the end of her life talking about a current […]
Psst…. Anybody want to buy a wall ?
Back in the good old days, just before the Millennium, I rented for a very short period a shop/workshop in Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales (don’t ask !). One day a highly intelligent master criminal walked around the Centre to case the joint and upon seeing the café till open decided grab what he could […]
NEWS – Bonhams Break Records in Boca Raton
On 23 February, at its inaugural motorcar auction held in conjunction with the Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance on the grounds of the luxurious, seaside Boca Raton Resort & Club north of Miami, Bonhams Classic and Collectors car sale made a total of $3.75 million with 85% sold and several records broken. A diverse selection of […]
NEWS – Banksy’s ‘Slave Labour’ withdrawn from sale
A mural by Banksy the graffiti artist, which was removed from a London wall was withdrawn from an auction in the United States. Fine Art Auctions of Miami had been publicising the work on its website. It disappeared from the side of the Poundland store last weekend and had been expected to fetch up to […]
NEWS – Zimbabwe Exhibiting at the 55th Venice Biennale
With a great sense of pride, I can report that Zimbabwe is one of the 4 African countries exhibiting at the 55th Venice Biennale, which is taking place from the 1st of June – 24th November this year, in Venice Italy. Through the ministry of education, sport, art and culture Zimbabwe has been officially invited to […]
Christie’s Auctioneers to raise its buyers premium…
On Friday Christie’s auction house informed its clients that it was increasing its buyer’s premium. Christie’s have been charging 25 percent for the first $50,000; 20 percent on the amount from $50,001 to $1 million, and 12 percent on the rest. As of March 11, it will charge 25 percent for the first $75,000; 20 […]
NEWS – CORK STREET – TEN ACRE (MAYFAIR) ONE LIMITED Claimant – THE MAYOR GALLERY LIMITED Defendant
Defendant James Mayor 1st Statement Dated: February 2013 IN THE CENTRAL LONDON COUNTY COURT Claim No: 2CL01688 B E T W E E N: TEN ACRE (MAYFAIR) ONE LIMITED Claimant - and – THE MAYOR GALLERY LIMITED Defendant ___ WITNESS STATEMENT of James Mayor __ I, […]
February 28, 2013 by Editors
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