"Specialist Alan Wintermute enthuses over an historic work by Nicolas Lancret — one of the greatest early 18th-century French paintings still in private hands."
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"An exceptional work attributed to the Flemish painter Hugo van der Goes — remarkable for a central section in which the preparatory underdrawing has been revealed — is set to star at Christie’s…
"Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer from 1963 (estimate: $50–70million) — a central highlight of Christie’s May 17 Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York…
"Inside the Tokyo creative space of an artist celebrated for his canvases peopled by anime-inspired, otherworldly figures with haunting eyes."
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"Clara Rivollet admires a prodigious abstract work by the Beijing-born, Paris-based artist which has been in private hands for almost 50 years."
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"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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"Old Masters specialist Eugene Pooley discusses an exceptional collection of Tuscan Renaissance wedding chests, or cassoni."
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