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The late Ileana Sonnabend had a great eye, but no estate can outrun the taxman, and now her art collection is being readied to go on the block to allow her executors to pay taxes on her $400 million estate. Manhattan-based Sotheby’s and London-based Christie’s International are reportedly competing for the collection, which includes well-known … Read more
LONDON – That’s not just art, it’s Mozart. And it could be worth some pretty high notes. A British music scholar says he has identified a previously unknown portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that could be worth millions. The 19-by-14-inch oil painting shows the profile of … Read full story in the Boston Herald
March 14 (Bloomberg) — The latest story of looted art involves the Stasi, not the Nazis, a painting of Hercules and an informant who befriended the owner in Berlin. “Hercules and Achelous” by the Dutch painter Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem… Read full story by Linda Sandler at Bloomberg
“I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of colour, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting; and the message of Art that has made these hands … Read full story
ON A QUIET SUNDAY AFTERNOON last month, armed men broke into the Emil George Bührle Museum in Zurich and forced security staff to the floor at gunpoint. A few minutes later, they had made off with paintings by Cezanne, Monet, Degas and Van Gogh with a combined value of £90 million… Read full story by … Read more