Monday, November 22, 2010

Daily art news


PARIS.- A visitor looks at the picture Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, June 14, 1981 by photographer Richard Avedon. Christies says a Paris auction of prints by the late American photographer Richard Avedon, including a multicolored four-frame picture of the Beatles, has brought in euro5.5 million ($7.5 million).

 

 Coco Sumner – the daughter of Sting and Trudie Styler – was always going to have a lot to prove. She has just released her debut album, The Constant, under the band name I Blame Coco.









"Still life with Carnations" is viewed at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit. When the painting, attributed to Vincent Van Gogh, was bequeathed to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1990, museum officials said they didn't think it was authentic. The museum was immediately suspicious of "Still Life With Carnations," an unsigned still life, and never put it on exhibit. Still, the painting was studied extensively and now will be displayed as part of a new exhibit titled "Fakes, Forgeries, and Mysteries" about how experts figure out whether art works are authentic.


 Melding the modern with the traditional, the Cologne Art and Antiques Fair has opened its doors.It brings together a rich mix of rare and exceptional objects spanning 2,000 years.Some 90 international galleries and dealers have been selected to show a few of the highlights of European and non-European art and design.



 The Louvre museum in Paris is calling on art lovers to help it buy The Three Graces, a 16th century oil painting by German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder.





           telegraph.com.uk

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