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So why are so many art aficionados flocking to the City of Angels? Woody Allen once appropriately joked that L.A.’s greatest cultural advantage was the opportunity to make a right turn at a red light. Well times are changing in Los Angeles. The boom has arrived and artists are now seeing record sales. Full article
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Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa on a piece of pine wood in the year 1506. Never in the history of Art has one painting been so admired. This is due largely to the enigmatic smile, which has caused much speculation. Full article
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Van Gogh is believed to have finished the painting, which depicts vast wheat fields swaying in the breeze under a blue sky, weeks before he died in a town near Paris on July 29, 1890. Full article
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A painting by Peter Paul Rubens is creating big buzz among art collectors. It’s making a U.S. debut and will auction in London on December 6th. Titled “Two Studies of a Young Man”, it was painted between 1615 and 1617. Full article
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Amongst the palm trees, pina coladas and bronzed bodies, art is in the air in Miami Beach. In the late 90’s, Miami collectors pushed for Art Basel to be held in Florida. Miami Beach was just enough out of the New York/Los Angeles mainstream of the contemporary art world that South Florida collections were a [...]
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Artist Alice Neel, worked in relative obscurity most of her adult life. As a resident of Spanish Harlem, she often painted her friends and neighbors. Originally created in the 1940’s, it recently sold for $445,000 at a Christie’s art auction. But the record-breaking price for the portrait “Roberta Johnson Roensch” does not change the entire [...]
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After all these years, the artist continues to be an enigma. Early on, Warhol was fascinated by multiple variations on the drawn image, especially his stylized, whimsical illustrations of shoes, sunglasses, and handbags. Full article
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A 1931 poster featuring a pair of sleek Italian motorboats, speeding across the water set a record in New York. The work of an unknown artist, saw fierce bidding when a private collector finally payed $20,000, twice the expected price to set the record for a poster of its type. Full article
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