Speed painting and exclusive materiasl - visit my new website at http://www.williams-shamir.com to see works in progress and get inside information and thoughts on my paintings and other things hi everyone this is my 5th shot at digital painting ... i'm still kind of experimenting and trying new things ... here i tried a new technique which is starting in grayscale and then coloring ... ...
London’s National Gallery acquired a painting by 15th-century Italian artist Bernardo Cavallino at Sotheby’s in New York, where it was set a record for $3.9 million (with buyer’s premium). The painting, which depicts its titular subject Saint Bartholomew in a seated pose holding a knife, is believed to have produced between 1640 and 1645. The inclusion of the knife foreshadows the apostle’s martyrdom, as ...
A French court has ordered Christie’s to return an 18th-century Dutch painting to the heirs of a French banker and distant relative of Marcel Proust that was the subject of a restitution claim. The painting at the center of the dispute, The Penitent Magdalene, was produced in 1707 by the Dutch artist Adriaen Van Der Werff. It was part of a collection owned by ...
Last week, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens was seized from an exhibition in Genoa as part of a fraud investigation led by Italian authorities. The seizure of the painting was part of the Carabinieri cultural heritage unit’s widening probe into the illegal export of the work out of the country a decade ago, the ANSA news agency first reported. The work, titled The Resurrected Christ ...
Art collector Cliff Schorer recently located a missing painting by Dutch master Hendrick Avercamp after finding an image of it online on an $18 throw pillow. Last year, Schorer used a reverse image search engine to find an image of Winter Landscape with Skater and Other Figures, stolen in 1978 and now worth around $10 million, on the print-on-demand website Pixels.com. By looking at ...
Art collector and gallery owner Cliff Schorer might have a genuine painting from Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn that has been missing since 1935. If he is successful at proving its authenticity and consensus from Rembrandt experts, it could be worth $10 million or more. The Rembrandt head study, titled Bredius 262 and last seen in 1935, is of a distinctive older man’s face ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, December 7. NEED TO READ Miami Beach Sculpture Sparks Controversy – The public is debating whether the government should use city funds to buy art after Miami Beach bought a $80,000 installation by Cuban ...
On Wednesday evening in between two contemporary art evening sales, a painting by Andy Warhol from his famed 1963 “Death and Disasters” series sold for $85 million at Sotheby’s New York. The result makes it one of the most expensive works by the Pop artist ever to be sold at auction. Measuring 30-feet-high and featuring 19 black and white pictures of a fatal car ...
On Monday evening, two back-to-back modern art evening sales at Sotheby’s brought in a collective $391.2 million. Even though the sales surpassed the house’s estimate of $318 million, the result failed to continue begun last week, when Christie’s kicked off the fall auction season in New York with a bang. That house had offered the collection of the late tech mogul Paul G. Allen, ...
Two activists in Belgium have been sentenced to two months in prison for a protest in which one person glued their hand to the wall next to Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring while another attempted to paste his head to the painting. The painting was unharmed. According to the Guardian, the public prosecutor had requested four months in prison with two months ...
