"Rembrandt Bugatti — brother of Ettore Bugatti, founder of the eponymous automobile company — was a brilliant sculptor of animals. Touched by the story of Bugatti’s premature death, the actor…
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"In the video above specialist Elizabeth Beaman describes how the leading American Impressionists found inspiration on a hideaway island in New England."
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"An important portfolio of images by Eugène Atget, one of the ‘founding fathers’ of modern photography, was thought to have been lost — until it was rediscovered ‘almost by chance’ among the…
"When he fled Paris for Tahiti in 1891, the artist described a ‘dazzling’ encounter with a landscape and way of life that changed his painting for ever — as an exceptional painting from our 28…
"The highlight of 20th Century Week at Christie’s in London, Max Beckmann’s Hölle der Vögel (Birds’ Hell) hammered down for £36,005,000 / $45,834,365 (with premium), setting a new world auction…
"In November 2016 the world auction record for Claude Monet was eclipsed after an epic 14-minute bidding battle in the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York."
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"NOW YOU SEE ME, Sotheby’s groundbreaking private selling exhibition, brings together paintings and sculpture by ten of the most original and influential female artists of the 20th century.…
"During the Golden Age of national cinema, Diego Rivera looked to Matilde Palou for inspiration. Rivera’s portrait of the Mexican actress, part of Sotheby’s Latin America: Modern Art Evening Sale…
