Experimental scientific analysis has potentially discovered a long-lost painting by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). It was bought for $50 (£40) at a Minnesota garage sale, but if officially reattributed to the popular post-Impressionist artist, it could be worth upwards of $15 million (£12 million).
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An oil on copper miniature newly attributed to one of the most significant women artists of the Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) will be going on display at its former home, Strawberry Hill House, where it is now on long-term loan. It will have its own exhibition, A Serendipitous Return: Lavinia Fontana’s Lost Miniature, which will be open until 23 April 2025.
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When the Venetian artist Titian (c.1488/90-1576) was only 20 years old, he painted the exquisite “Rest On The Flight Into Egypt”. Centuries later, after being stolen and then sensationally recovered at a bus-stop in 2002, the “little masterpiece” has set a new world auction record for the artist.
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One of the few portraits by Rembrandt left in private hands is likely to be purchased by the Rijksmuseum with assistance from the Dutch government. The total price of the painting is €175 million ($198 million), with the Rembrandt Association contributing €15 million and the Rijksmuseum Fund providing €10 million. The Dutch Government is set to pay the remaining €150 million, although final approvement from parliament is yet to be granted.
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New York’s Everson Museum is selling its only Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) painting to fund efforts to diversify the collection. Painted in 1946, ‘Red Composition’ is expected to fetch between $12 million and $18 million (£9 million – £13.5 million) at Christie’s upcoming 20th Century Art auction in New York.
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On Monday, the Danish court prohibited two watchmakers from destroying a painting to make a collection of luxury watches. Altering the artwork and reintroducing it for sale in the public domain without the permission of the artist, Tal R, was held to have violated Danish copyright law. Continue reading
According to an announcement made by the owner, the infamous Salvator Mundi painting will no longer feature in the upcoming Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Louvre in Paris. This follows reports that the museum’s Curators were unable to agree whether it was painted by Leonardo or his workshop.
The Commission for Looted Art in Europe announced in a press release yesterday (21 March 2019) that a painting attributed to 17th century painter Jan van der Heyden has been returned to the heirs of the Jewish family from whom it was confiscated by the Nazis in 1941; Continue reading
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