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Is Vermeer's 'The Art of Painting' in fact a lost work?

The 1676 legal reference to 'schilderconst' likely refers to a different, allegorical Vermeer now lost, not the Vienna painting.

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fromInsideHook

5 days ago

Pollock Painting Owned by Steve McQueen Sparks Legal Battle

Steve McQueen's Jackson Pollock painting is the subject of a legal dispute between his granddaughter Molly McQueen and attorney Brent Borchert.

fromwww.theguardian.com

2 weeks ago

Picasso painting hidden for 80 years expected to fetch 8m+ at auction

The work, Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat (Dora Maar), was finished towards the end of the couple's turbulent nine-year relationship and shows Maar in a softer, more colourful light than Picasso's previous portraits of his then lover. Picasso made many paintings of Maar, including the famous, Portrait of Dora Maar and Dora Maar au Chat, but she said of them: All of his portraits of me are lies. They're all Picassos. Not one is Dora Maar.

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Arts

fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events

4 weeks ago

Ten surprises at the National Gallery's five-star Van Gogh exhibition

The National Gallery's Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers exhibition attracted a record 335,000 visitors and revealed surprising facts about loaned Van Gogh paintings.

Arts

fromMission Local

1 month ago

Diego Rivera's 'Mexican Mona Lisa' hangs in an SF home. But not for long.

Diego Rivera's 1929 portrait 'Tehuantepec Costume' of Aurea Procel is slated for a Houston exhibition, but ownership may change if the 90‑year‑old trustee dies first.