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Emily Carr painting bought for $50 at barn sale could bring $148,000 at auction

The Art Newspaper

The 1912 painting is believed ot have been gifted by the artist to friends who later moved to the Hamptons, where a discerning dealer nabbed it decades later for a bargain

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Amid 'more selective, more cautious' market, Christie's Hong Kong sale notches $134m

The Art Newspaper

The firm's first major sale in its new Hong Kong headquarters saw spirited bidding for contemporary works and regional records for paintings by Van Gogh and Monet

Sale 328
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Price of rediscovered Emily Carr painting bought for $50 surges nearly 500,000% at Toronto auction

The Art Newspaper

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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£10m Botticelli leads London's pre-Christmas Old Master sales

The Art Newspaper

Nine bidders competed for the 15th century painting of a Virgin and child at Sotheby's, while Zoffany, Tiepolo and Van Dyck topped auctions at Bonhams and Christie's

Sale 336
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Spring Americana Sale at Doyle

Maine Antique Digest

Doyle, New York City Photos courtesy Doyle Only at Doyle on Manhattan’s Upper East Side can you buy a sterling silver child’s highchair tray, a silver dog bowl, and a silver terrapin tureen and soup bowls in an Americana sale. The April 10 sale featured paintings, prints, furniture, silver, and decorative art.

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Monet to go on sale after Kunsthaus Zurich reaches settlement with Jewish heirs

The Art Newspaper

The collector and textiles entrepreneur Carl Sachs sold the painting after fleeing to Switzerland from Nazi Germany in 1939

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Spring Sale of African American Art

Maine Antique Digest

Swann Galleries, New York City Photos courtesy Swann Galleries For its April 4 sale of African American art, Swann Galleries offered 239 lots of paintings, watercolors, prints, photography, and sculpture and featured a special evening session called “Art for Life” of contemporary works sold to benefit the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.

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