A rare portet, Madame Matisse au kimono by Andre Derain will be the highlight at Christie’s Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on May 8 in New York. Derain’s portrait of Matisse’s wife from 1905 was painted during the first of two summers he spent with Henri Matisse in Collioure, a French Mediterranean fishing [...]
4 August 2011 
Two Paintings of Hitler’s Parents go up for Auction
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Two lost portrait of Klara and Aloise, Adolf Hitler’s parents are set to go on sale next month and is expected to fetch up to $100,000. These original oil paintings of German Dictator’s parents had hung in a former Hitler-owned residence in Bavaria, Germany and have been lost since the end of the Second World War. The [...]
29 June 2011 
Francis Bacon’s Study for a Portrait Sold for $28 Million at Christie’s
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Francis Bacon’s Study for a Portrait A Fransis Bacon’s masterpiece from 1953, Study for a Portrait, has sold at auction in London on Tuesday, for nearly £18 million ($28 million), almost £7 million ($11 million ) more than the pre-sale estimate. The painting became the second most valuable piece (first is Bacon’s Triptych, which sold [...]
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