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Frederick Childe Hassam Painting Might Fetch $5,000,000 US

The Erie Art Museum faces a dilemma it seems, according to respected local news source, GoErie.com.
Their Frederick Childe Hassam “Summer Afternoon, Isle of Shoals” painting has just been valued at around $5,000,000. Of course, no one wants to sell, but it is quite a lot of money nonetheless. Museum funding is always contentious and trade […]

Museum Quality Reproduction of $28.6 US million Juan Gris Painting For Sale On-line From $269

Vioin and Guitar - Juan Gris
Oil on canvas from 90 x 57cm - $269. Original size also available.
Cubist painter, Juan Gris’s 1913  painting, titled “Violin and Guitar”, acheived a record breaking $28.6 million at Christie’s New York.
The work was one of the artist’s favorites. The sale exceeds the highest previous price for a Juan Gris painting, […]

Reproduction Art Popular For High End Property Investors

Soho-Art customers are as varied as the paintings that we offer. But we are selling more and more paintings to property investors, who buy apartments and houses to rent to long and short term company tenants.
Quality is everything when you are dealing with high end properties. I spoke to Andrew D, a London realtor with […]

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Work in the Court Room

The works of imitative realist artist Georgia O’ Keeffe are in the news this week. O’Keeffe’s work spanned much of the twentieth century (she painted right up to 1974, until the age of 84 years).

Georgia O’Keeffe’s ”White Trumpet Flower” painting of 1932 is probably her best known work
A judge in Tennessee has some good news and […]

Jewellery in John Singer Sargent Painting Goes Under Hammer

A brooch depicted in the renowned portraitist, John Singer Sargent’s 1902 portrait of Winifred, Duchess of Portland is about to go under auction at Christie’s Auctioneers, London, with an estimate of £700,000 (just over $1M US).
The diamond and pearl piece dates from 1870, comprising a natural pearl brooch and an antique diamond necklace.
John Singer Sargent spent […]

Edward Hopper Exhibition in New York

“Edward Hopper and His Time” at the Whitney Museum
American artist Edward Hopper (b1882) painted the dark-side of the “American Dream.” In short - what it was like to be alone in a crowd. His paintings portrayed solitude, even melancholy, many in urban landscapes devoid of life. My favorite quote is from the French author, Michel […]

Dance Tribute to Jackson Pollock

A reproduction of the work of Jackson Pollock - his Autumn Rhythm, no. 30, creates a visually impressive backdrop to choreographer Lar Lubovitch’s forthcoming dance performance at Syracuse University, on November 11, 2010
Lar Lubovitch, a native of Chicago, has become a leading figure in the US arts scene. Described by the New York Times as one […]

Andre Derain on Facebook

^ London Calling…….”The Houses of Parliament at Night” - Andre Derain (1906)
As an aging Luddite, I’m pleased to see that new on-line social media is increasingly becoming a learning resource. Today I stumbled across a Facebook page dedicated to the French Fauvist artist Andre Derain. 
Derain, together with his contemporary of Matisse, became the “Wild […]

“I’m just delighted to have this picture even though it is not a genuine Lowry” Fake L S Lowry Painting Sold to the Same Buyer Twice in UK

 
“I’m just delighted to have this picture even though it is not a genuine Lowry”
-  Duped buyer David Smith bought back a copy of LS Lowry’s 1964 “Mill Street Scene” for £13,500 from a proceeds of crime auction this month. He had previously bought it believing it to be an “original” for £330,000.

UK businessman and […]