Is There Really Fine Art in Tinseltown?
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...
Category: Art & Culture
Popping Price for a Poster
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...
Up For Auction – Van Gogh’s “The Fields”
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,...
Rubens Art Expected to Sell for $8-12 million
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...
Rostropovich’s Art Collection Back in Russia
A collection of Russina art, collected over 30 years is returning to its motherland. Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov purchased the great cellist’s collection in a private deal with Sotheby’s auction house. Full article great...
Big Money for Alice Neel’s Painting
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...
