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The great tradition of flower painting in western art seems to have ended more than a century ago, in a series of tremendous bangs amid an obbligato of whimpers. Bang number one has to be the explosion of Van Gogh, 11 paintings in all, probably. The first four, studies of drying sunflower heads, were painted in Paris in 1887. Of the seven he painted in Arles a year later, the first were intended as decorative panels for the house he shared with Gauguin. He wrote to Theo Van Gogh: "If I carry out the plan there will be a dozen panels ... a symphony in blue and yellow." The decorative purpose of the panels explains their shallowness of field, simplicity of composition and brushwork. He trie
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According to auctioneers, works by Edvard Munch have significantly increased in price as a direct result of the 2004 robbery of the artist’s The Scream and Madonna. In May, Munch’s Girls on a Bridge, 1902, sold for $30.8m at Sotheby’s, tripling the painter’s previous auction record. The same work was sold in 1996 for $7.7m.
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Cildo Meireles prize painting Velázquez 2008 [ESP].
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Christie’s will offer two impressive works at the auction of Victorian and Traditionalist Art on 5 June 2008 in London; Jasmine by Albert Joseph Moore (estimate: £600,000-800,000) and The Triumph of Love, a painting on 4 canvases framed as one by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (estimate: £400,000-600,000). Both works are offered from the non-core collection of Watts Gallery, Surrey, in order to raise money for the collection endowment fund at the Gallery to safeguard the future of its core collec
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Sotheby’s had successful sales of 19th Century European Paintings (which includes German, Austrian & Central European Paintings), Orientalist Art and Scandinavian Art at Sotheby’s in London. The series of sales brought a combined total of £19,518,450
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The rule book on Gustav Klimt was torn up and rewritten in the summer of 2006, when word leaked out that the cosmetics magnate Ronald S Lauder had just paid $135m for Klimt’s golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, making it the most expensive painting in history.
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"A Scot who picked up a painting on impulse at Glasgow's Barrowland market for 50p in the 1970s was celebrating yesterday after it sold at auction for nearly £35,000. The oil painting, by leading 19th century Canadian artist Cornelius David Krieghoff, was snapped up in seconds at Lyon and Turnbul
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"The Russian billionaire now bestrides the art world just as the American tycoon did a century ago, with limitless resources and limited taste, provoking precisely the same combination of awe, envy, snobbery and quiet admiration."
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Pintor cubano residente en Medellín,Colombia
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"Holocaust historians are criticizing the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for its stance in an escalating legal dispute over the ownership of a valuable 1913 painting. The work, Oskar Kokoschka's "Two Nudes (Lovers)," has hung at the MFA almost continuously since 1973."
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The exterior walls of Tate Modern have been covered with six towering works of Street Art, all around 15 metres high. Each is by one of the world's leading international street artists but there's one figure who is glaringly absent - the most famous one of them all. Where's Banksy?
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"The monumental Thomas Moran landscape "Green River of Wyoming," estimated at $3.5 million to $5 million, sold on Wednesday for $17.73 million at a Christie's sale of American art in New York. The price set a record for a 19th-century American painting." A record was also set for American Mode
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"Her portrait sold for £17m but Sue Tilley," known as artist Lucien Freud's muse, "says the tabloids are only interested in getting her to strip... 'Just because I took my clothes off for Lucian Freud, that doesn't mean I'm a nudist or a floozy or whatever.'"
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Collectors have realised that you can still buy the best of their work, whereas the best Monets and Picassos are mostly in museums.
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A 1976 triptych by Francis Bacon brought $86.3 million on Wednesday night at Sotheby's, becoming the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction and a retort to doomsayers who had predicted that the art market would falter seriously this season because of broad economic anxieties.
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