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Kunstmuseum Basel settles on Pissarro painting with Jewish collector’s heirs

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Richard Semmel, a Jewish textiles entrepreneur in Berlin, was forced to sell the painting after fleeing Nazi persecution in 1933

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

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

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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Caravaggio masterpiece painted in Naples rather than Sicily, researchers suggest

The Art Newspaper

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

New research has overturned conventional wisdom about the provenance of artists famed painting Adoration of the Shepherds

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MFA Houston can keep Bernardo Bellotto painting seized by the Nazis, appeals court rules

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 3, 2024

The lawsuit stems from the accidental restitution of the wrong painting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War

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The ten most expensive Vincent van Gogh paintings

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 19, 2025

His Sunflowers painting does not make the listand there are other surprises too

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Restoration begins on rare Ludovico Mazzolino painting at the National Gallery of Ireland

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The Italian Renaissance master’s few remaining large paintings are a conservation headache, but the museum hopes to show its Crossing of the Red Sea for the first time next year

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Price of rediscovered Emily Carr painting bought for $50 surges nearly 500,000% at Toronto auction

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Carr painting was one of the star attractions at the Heffel Fine Art Auction House’s marquee autumn sale, alongside works by Tom Thomson, Marcelle Ferron, Kenojuak Ashevak and Chief 7IDANsuu James Hart

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Large Ed Ruscha gas station painting could bring more than $50m at Christie's after star turns at Lacma and MoMA

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The 1964 painting was a prominent feature in the artist’s recent travelling retrospective

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‘I’m the most content I’ve ever been’: Tracey Emin on having her first museum show in Italy, losing her libido and why she had to take a break from painting

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 18, 2025

The British artist discusses the way her views on painting and life have shifted over the years as an expansive show of her works opens at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence

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What we learned from the show of Monet’s London paintings at the Courtauld

The Art Newspaper

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Specialists and curators on what gathering Thames paintings from around the world revealed

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The artist bringing Van Gogh's paintings to life—without the use of AI

The Art Newspaper

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Andrey Zakirzyanovs video animations of famous paintings are drawing in millions of views on across social media

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

The Art Newspaper

MAY 14, 2024

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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American Paintings and Prints at Doyle

Maine Antique Digest

JUNE 10, 2024

Doyle, New York City Photos courtesy Doyle Doyle held its semiannual sale of American paintings and prints live in its salesroom on East 87th Street in Manhattan Wednesday, April 10. Only a few bidders were present. Most of the sales went to online bidders. The auction also featured American furniture, silver, and

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National Trust paint archive promises to bring secrets to light

The Art Newspaper

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Thousands of historic paint samples'miniature cultural assets packed with answers to questions yet to be asked'will be analysed at Kent facility

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Australia's National Gallery acquires country's first Gauguin painting

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 2, 2024

The museum, which is hosting a major survey of the post-Impressionist artist's work, paid $6.5m for 'The blue roof' or 'Farm at Le Pouldu'

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Two mystery figures discovered beneath Picasso Blue Period painting

The Art Newspaper

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Conservators at London's Courtauld Institute used x-ray and infrared images to reveal the previously unseen works

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Medieval wall paintings hidden in a French cathedral revealed in digital imagery

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 2, 2025

UK conservators knit together thousands of pictures taken at Angers cathedral of Saint Maurille paintngs

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In residence: how contemporary artists reimagine the National Gallery's paintings

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 4, 2024

For more than 30 years, the National Gallery has invited artists to respond to the art inside. Here are three highlights

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

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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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Just Stop Oil activists who glued themselves to Turner painting acquitted

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Just days after Van Gogh soup pair sentenced to jail, a judge found the protesters' actions to be 'proportionate'

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Prison restaurant refuses to show former inmate’s 'inappropriate' paintings

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Frank Norman's exhibition was cancelled at The Clink in London

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Paula Rego paintings replace royal portrait at No.10 Downing Street

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In a major re-hang, scenes from Rego’s mural Crivelli’s Garden have appeared in place of portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh

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David Hockney catalogue raisonné in the pipeline with painting volume expected in 2026

The Art Newspaper

MAY 22, 2024

More than 35,000 works to be documented over 20 years

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Three climate activists charged following Stonehenge paint protest

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The members of Just Stop Oil are set to appear in court next month

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Damien Hirst backdated at least 1,000 paintings from his NFT project, investigation reveals

The Art Newspaper

MAY 23, 2024

Discrepancies in the dates of Hirst's works are—once again—coming under scrutiny

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Surreal Watteau painting owned by Britain's first prime minister gets export bar

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The Rococo masterpiece is valued at over £6m

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Painting by AI robot Ai-Da could bring more than $120,000 at Sotheby's

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The robotic brainchild of British gallerist Aidan Meller will make her auction debut on Halloween

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Trespassing in the name of art history

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Our intrepid diarist goes in search of the site where Joseph Wright of Derby painted a late—sublime—landscape, on the shores of Ullswater

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Jonathan Yeo paints UK ‘royalty’ again—broadcast king David Attenborough

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 26, 2024

The artist's scarlet-drenched depiction of King Charles III sparked debate last month

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Moon paintings and fictitious flowers: Our pick of the art on show at Art SG

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 13, 2025

Silkscreens, videos and abstract paintings are among the works to look out for

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Picasso estate to take no further action over forged paintings at Mona

The Art Newspaper

JULY 12, 2024

The Succession Picasso has made a statement after curator Kirsha Kaechele’s admitted she created the fake works, which she then hung in the women’s toilets at the Tasmanian museum as part of a protest

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Record for Indian painting at auction smashed by $13.7m M.F. Husain

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 19, 2025

The work sold at Christies New York, almost quadrupling its $3.5m high estimate, as South Asian Modern art crests a wave

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Just Stop Oil protesters charged after Charles Darwin's grave spray-painted

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 14, 2025

The two women are set to appear in court next month

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‘Viscerally real’: a Caravaggio painting provides inspiration for a newly translated novel

The Art Newspaper

JULY 2, 2024

The Italian scholar Alessandro Giardino posits his theories about the Baroque artist’s Seven Works of Mercy in fictional form

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Jordaens painting to be sold after settlement with heirs of Jewish bank shareholders

The Art Newspaper

JULY 3, 2024

The work, to be auctioned at Sotheby’s today, was one of more than 2,500 held as collateral and sold, shortly before the Nazi invasion, by the Dutch bank Lisser & Rosenkranz

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Kernel of truth: pollen cone stuck in paint reveals where Van Gogh’s Irises grew

The Art Newspaper

MAY 31, 2024

His purple flowers have now faded to blue, as revealed during research for a Getty exhibition in October

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Painting by Ernst Klimt—completed by his brother Gustav—to be offered at Sotheby’s

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

After Ernst Klimt’s sudden death at 29, Gustav completed "Hans Wurst Delivering an Impromptu Performance in Rothenburg" and signed it in his brother’s name

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From one hand to another: painting reworked by Rubens to be sold at Sotheby’s

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 19, 2024

Conservation has revealed the extensive changes Rubens made to a work originally by Herri Met de Bles

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Holocaust-restitution firm Mondex settles legal feud with heir over fees for $24m Chagall painting

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 27, 2024

"Over Vitebsk" by Marc Chagall hung at the Museum of Modern Art for decades until 2020, when it was restituted to the the heirs of a Jewish-owned art gallery in 1930s Berlin

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Center for Painted Wall Preservation Scholarship

Maine Antique Digest

MARCH 14, 2025

The Center for Painted Wall Preservation (CPWP) invites applications to the 2025 inaugural CPWP scholarship. Awards will be made for either one recipient of $1500 or two recipients of $750. The selection will be based on review of proposals for educational scholarly projects designed to study, understand, and educate about

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US judge rejects Nazi-loot claim to Van Gogh Sunflowers painting owned by Japanese company

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 6, 2024

After almost two years, the case has been dismissed due to a lack of jurisdiction, so the work will remain at the Sompo Museum of Art in Tokyo

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Australian museum under fire for acquiring object linked to protesters' attack on well-known painting

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Politicians have slammed the museum for ‘glorifying’ the attack on Frederick McCubbin’s ‘Down on his luck’

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Matisse wanted to buy a Van Gogh portrait—instead, his brother bought a bicycle

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 21, 2025

Years later, inspired by Vincents paintings, the French artist became a wild beast

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Stedelijk Museum restitutes Matisse Odalisque to Jewish arts patrons’ heirs

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 25, 2024

Albert Stern, the former owner, sold the painting “out of necessity” in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, the Dutch Restitutions Committee says

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Kunstmuseum Basel settles on Pissarro painting with Jewish collector’s heirs

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

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Caravaggio masterpiece painted in Naples rather than Sicily, researchers suggest

MFA Houston can keep Bernardo Bellotto painting seized by the Nazis, appeals court rules

The ten most expensive Vincent van Gogh paintings

Restoration begins on rare Ludovico Mazzolino painting at the National Gallery of Ireland

Price of rediscovered Emily Carr painting bought for $50 surges nearly 500,000% at Toronto auction

Large Ed Ruscha gas station painting could bring more than $50m at Christie's after star turns at Lacma and MoMA

‘I’m the most content I’ve ever been’: Tracey Emin on having her first museum show in Italy, losing her libido and why she had to take a break from painting

What we learned from the show of Monet’s London paintings at the Courtauld

The artist bringing Van Gogh's paintings to life—without the use of AI

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

American Paintings and Prints at Doyle

National Trust paint archive promises to bring secrets to light

Australia's National Gallery acquires country's first Gauguin painting

Two mystery figures discovered beneath Picasso Blue Period painting

Medieval wall paintings hidden in a French cathedral revealed in digital imagery

In residence: how contemporary artists reimagine the National Gallery's paintings

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

Just Stop Oil activists who glued themselves to Turner painting acquitted

Prison restaurant refuses to show former inmate’s 'inappropriate' paintings

Paula Rego paintings replace royal portrait at No.10 Downing Street

David Hockney catalogue raisonné in the pipeline with painting volume expected in 2026

Three climate activists charged following Stonehenge paint protest

Damien Hirst backdated at least 1,000 paintings from his NFT project, investigation reveals

Surreal Watteau painting owned by Britain's first prime minister gets export bar

Painting by AI robot Ai-Da could bring more than $120,000 at Sotheby's

Trespassing in the name of art history

Jonathan Yeo paints UK ‘royalty’ again—broadcast king David Attenborough

Moon paintings and fictitious flowers: Our pick of the art on show at Art SG

Picasso estate to take no further action over forged paintings at Mona

Record for Indian painting at auction smashed by $13.7m M.F. Husain

Just Stop Oil protesters charged after Charles Darwin's grave spray-painted

‘Viscerally real’: a Caravaggio painting provides inspiration for a newly translated novel

Jordaens painting to be sold after settlement with heirs of Jewish bank shareholders

Kernel of truth: pollen cone stuck in paint reveals where Van Gogh’s Irises grew

Painting by Ernst Klimt—completed by his brother Gustav—to be offered at Sotheby’s

From one hand to another: painting reworked by Rubens to be sold at Sotheby’s

Holocaust-restitution firm Mondex settles legal feud with heir over fees for $24m Chagall painting

Center for Painted Wall Preservation Scholarship

US judge rejects Nazi-loot claim to Van Gogh Sunflowers painting owned by Japanese company

Australian museum under fire for acquiring object linked to protesters' attack on well-known painting

Matisse wanted to buy a Van Gogh portrait—instead, his brother bought a bicycle

Stedelijk Museum restitutes Matisse Odalisque to Jewish arts patrons’ heirs

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