The Procuress: Fake or Mistake? Painting Featured in the Third Episode of BBC One’s Fake or Fortune

LONDON.- The Procuress, the painting featured in the third episode of BBC One’s Fake or Fortune, went on view to the public at The Courtauld Gallery, London, on Monday 4 July 2011, the day after the television programme was broadcast. In the late 1940s Geoffrey Webb, an officer responsible for the restitution of art seized by the Nazis in Germany and The Netherlands, was given a version of the 17th-century painter Dirck van Baburen’s The Procuress (the original painting, dated 1622, is [...]

“The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt Named Most Romantic Oil Painting for Valentine’s Day 2011

WICHITA, KAN.- The popular online art gallery overstockArt.com, published today its official Top 10 list of most romantic oil paintings for Valentine’s Day 2011. Topping the chart is Gustav Klimt’s sensual masterpiece “The Kiss.” Other artists named on the 2011 Valentine’s Day Top 10 Romantic Oil Paintings list include Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. Dance in the City by” Pierre-Auguste Renoir The oil paintings that made the 2011 Valentine’s Day Top 10 Romantic Oil [...]

Any one got a spare two grand

The following email was received by me, It come from a London based gallery, and I feel that it indicates the desperate times we as artists are going through, I would very much appreciate your comments on Vanity galleries. My comments are highlighted in RED All the best. Chris. Christopher Stone, Sculptor Mob. 0034-654-921.441 [email protected] www.sculptormine.com Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 15:36:51 +0000 > Subject: Call for Artists- 3 weeks exhibition in London Mayfair and Paris > > Dear Artist, > [...]

Commercial Galleries

After more than twenty years of vocational art, and more than a decade of working with international commercial galleries, I will be resigning from this form of representation. I will, of course fore fill all professional commitments, and complete the exhibitions which are now running, and those which are planned for later this year. I am currently represented by galleries in New york, and Connecticut in the USA, Antwerp Belgium, Dublin Eire, Omagh,and Belfast Northern Ireland, and Sussex, in the UK, I have recently terminated with galleries in Bressuire, [...]

Did Duchamp was a quack? What about contemporary artists?

How an artist can consider his masterpiece an object that he even produced? For me, Duchamp was a quack, but I forgot one thing: the historical context!