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The International Herald Tribune has this story about another museum painting theft, which has since been recovered by authorities: STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Police have recovered a stolen painting by Swedish writer and painter August Strindberg, and arrested two men suspected of theft, police and museum officials said Friday…. Read full story
A MAJOR sale of Scottish masterpieces owned by an Edinburgh private school failed to meet expectations despite netting more than £250,000. Fettes College, which counts Prime Minister Tony Blair among its former pupils, had hoped its collection would fetch up to £500,000 at auction. The nine paintings by Francis CB Cadell had been… Read full … Read more
LONDON (Reuters) – Christie’s will offer for sale the private collection of the late Simon Sainsbury, estimated to be worth around 15 million pounds which includes furniture and pottery and paintings by Reynolds, Degas and Matisse… Read full story
An act of artistic philanthropy on a par with Britain’s greatest – including bequests by Samuel Courtauld and Henry Tate – was unveiled today in a move that will see 725 works of postwar and contemporary art donated to the nation. The London dealer Anthony d’Offay is giving over almost his entire… Read full story … Read more
A study of a nude by Anglo-Irish artist Francis Bacon and self-portraits by Andy Warhol were among top lots at a record-breaking contemporary art sale at Sotheby’s in London. The auction house recorded a sale total of STG95 million ($A199.48 million), which represented the highest total for any Contemporary Art sale ever staged in Europe, … Read more