Tag: Rediscovered

A rediscovered painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard sold at auction for €7.7 million ($9.2 million) with buyer’s premium at the Enchères Champagne auction house on Saturday in Épernay, France. The result was more than three times its $2.4 million high estimate. At Saturday’s auction, two private collectors and a London-based dealer competed for the work. The winning bidder was not revealed by the house. Philosopher ...

Hungarian-Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil was one of India’s foremost modern artists, even though her career was tragically cut short when she died in 1941 at the age of 28. Because the volume of her output was relatively modest, few works by Sher-Gil ever come to market, but now Christie’s will sell a rarely seen portrait by the artist later this month. Being sold during ...

Amrita Sher-Gil's Portrait of Denyse Prouteaux (around 1932) Courtesy of Christie's It was thought that the Hungarian-Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil, widely considered one of India's preeminent Modernist artists, made just three paintings of her close friend Denyse Prouteaux. Two of these hang in the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Delhi, another was lost during the Second World War. But now a fourth ...

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, November 25. NEED-TO-READ Liverpool Biennial Director Departs Over Disagreements With Board –In a development emblematic of the unprecedented tensions and challenges facing biennials in the social-distancing era, Fatos Üstek has resigned from her post ...

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. News A traveling survey show focused on American artists in Spain will feature a recently discovered Mary Cassatt painting. The show is set to open first at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, in February. Is that strange monolith in the Utah desert a sculpture by Minimalist artist John ...