Share:This is a spellbinding book, though it is not really about Vermeer. Timothy Brook is a professor of Chinese, and his subject is Dutch trade with China in the 17th century. Starting from details in five of Vermeer’s paintings, he takes readers on a series of brilliantly circuitous mystery tours that reveal the savagery on […]
Share:Business Standard Among the treasures that were moved secretly from Europe to the United States and helped finance Jewish entry into America‘s financial world, were paintings by the great masters. Held mostly in private collections, their sale � never in the public realm � consists of one of the Western world’s untold stories. Stories of […]
Share:Banalata Bipani tracks the journey of Indian photography which has come a long way from being relatively inconspicuous to commanding big bucks in the international auctions. First it was Indian paintings and now it is Indian photography and vintage photographs of India that’s making waves in the international art market. Photographs account for as much […]
Share:Aveek Sen “You speak in one language, your thoughts and feelings are all different, yet your work is like ours — we just don’t understand how this is possible.” When the sculptor and writer, Meera Mukherjee (1923-1998), went to the Munich Art Academy in 1953 to study painting, sculpture, etching and lithography, this is how […]
Share:Gargi Gupta The ShContemporary is a sign of a mature Chinese art market. Come September, and eight galleries from various Indian cities will be travelling to the Middle Kingdom. Their desintation, the ShContemporary 2008, or the Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair as it’s formally called, held in Shanghai from September 10-13. This is only the […]
Share: The Economic Times LONDON : Auction house Christie’s says it has recorded a 63% growth entirely due to the emergence of Indian and Chinese buyers of both their own art and western art. Christie’s total worldwide sales in the first half of this year amounted to £1.8 billion, a rise of 10% on the […]
Share: ArtdailyAndy Warhol, Mickey Mouse. One of the works stolen from the Abergs Museum. Image provided by the Abergs Museum. BALSTA, SWEDEN.- Two Warhols and three Lichtensteins were stolen from the Abergs Museum. Carina Aberg, an official at the Abergs Museum, stated to ArtDaily, “Early this morning, the 18th of July, burglars broke up a […]
Share:By Stephen Adams The stratospheric state of the global art market has been underlined by figures that show last month’s ‘Monet’ auction at Christie’s in London was the most lucrative in European history. The sale of Monet’s Le bassin aux nymphéas doubled the previous record for a work by the Impressionist artist Despite the global […]
