Best of Brit Art up for auction

Early prints by some of the best-known proponents of Brit Art are to be sold at Christie’s in London on April 3 when the influential Paragon Press, founded in 1986 by Charles Booth-Clibborn, hopes to raise more than £500,000 to enable it to move to larger premises. The 120 prints will include works by Anish … Read more

Moz-art could be worth millions

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

The Thomas Crown effect

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