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Snug as a bug: conservation work reveals beetle in Gauguin cat painting

The Art Newspaper

The painting, which has just gone on display at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, was previously hidden away in a private collection for over a century

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Sotheby's secures most valuable single owner collection of Old Master paintings to come to auction

The Art Newspaper

Around 60 works estimated for a total of $80m to $120m from the collection of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders will be offered in New York this May

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'Regret when collecting stems from missing out on monetary gain': artist Dominic Chambers on the art he buys

The Art Newspaper

The painter, who features in a major Black figurative painting survey at the Kunstmuseum Basel, discusses his growing collection

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Nazi-loot panel set up by private Swiss collection to evaluate painting by Hodler

The Art Newspaper

The painting, purchased by the real estate magnate Bruno Stefanini in 1998, was once owned by a Jewish woman who fled Hitler’s Germany

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London's National Gallery to ban liquids after attacks on paintings

The Art Newspaper

The gallery will introduce new security measures, stating it has been "forced to act to protect our visitors, staff and collection"

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Collection of Salvator Mundi Museum in Brooklyn confirmed as safe after break-in

The Art Newspaper

The small storefront institution, devoted to objects and ephemera related to the most expensive painting ever sold, will reopen soon

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Magritte painting could bring more than $95m at Christie's marquee New York sales this autumn

The Art Newspaper

If it goes for the auction house's estimate, "L'empire des lumières" (1954), from the collection of late interior designer Mica Ertegun, would set an auction record for the Surrealist artist