Paintings

Doig’s quiet path to art recognition, record price

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While British artist Damien Hirst and his crowd rocketed to fame and fortune in the early 1990s, contemporary painter Peter Doig’s rise to prominence has been glacial by comparison. A new exhibition of his work at London’s Tate Britain museum, featuring over 50 canvases, seeks to explain how Doig, born in 1959, was often seen … Read more

Armed gang flee museum with paintings worth 80m hanging out of car boot

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Four impressionist works stolen in daylight heist Audacious raid the second in Switzerland in a week (snip) The Boy in the Red Vest by the French master Paul Cézanne was the museum’s most valuable painting. The others – Van Gogh’s Blossoming Chestnut Branches, Claude Monet’s Poppies near Vetheuil and Edgar Degas’s family portrait, the Count … Read more

Works worth $180m were put in car boot

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THE robbers who committed one of the world’s biggest art robberies in a Zurich museum drove off with $180 million worth of impressionist paintings sticking out of the boot of their car. The three thieves, wearing dark clothes and ski masks, and brandishing handguns, burst into the gated villa of the Emile Buhrle Foundation, a … Read more

Sigh of Relief From the Nervous London Auctions

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Reassurance. That’s what motivated so many dealers and collectors from around the world to flock here this week for the big February art auctions. Reassurance that, despite the shaky state of world financial markets, there are still plenty of people willing to spend millions of dollars to put Impressionist, Modern or contemporary art on their … Read more