London Galleries Ordered to Return a $1.2 Million Chagall to a U.S. Collector Swindled by Disgraced Dealer Ezra Chowaiki
New York’s Supreme Court has ordered a trio of London galleries to return a $1.2 million Marc Chagall painting to Pennsylvania collector Rick Silver, one of the victims of the disgraced Manhattan dealer Ezra Chowaiki, who in 2018 pled guilty to defrauding his clients. Silver bought the painting Bouquet de
A Painting by Canadian Folk Artist Maud Lewis
A painting by the Canadian artist folk artistoften used normal house paint for her works, and, which was once bartered to the owners of a restaurant in London, Ontario in exchange for a few grilled cheese sandwiches, could sell for
Bellotto Painting
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston that called for Bernardo Bellotto’s Marketplace at Pirna (ca. 1764) to be returned to the heirs of Max Emden, a Jewish department store owner who sold it to Nazis in 1938. The judge, Keith P.
A Painting by a Teenaged Egon Schiele, Thought Lost for Decades, Has Been Found and Will Be Turned Into an NFT to Fund Its Restoration
An early work by Egon Schiele, painted when the artist was just 16 and still a student, has resurfaced in a private collection after it was believed to be lost. The owners of Leopold Czihaczek at the Piano (1907) have now agreed
Self-Portrait by Käthe Kollwitz
In the latest example of museums joining forces to acquire pricey artworks while offsetting some of the expense, two New York institutions—the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Neue Galerie announced they have acquired Käthe Kollwitz’s Self-portrait en face (1904), a lithograph
Artist Maria Prymachenko Has Been Added to the Venice Biennale
A humble gouache of a colorful anthropomorphic creature by Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko, whose vivid and fantastical visions have become an international symbol of peace amid the devastating war in Ukraine, was hastily added to the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the
Jackson Pollock Painting
A modestly sized Jackson Pollock painting with an extraordinary presale estimate will be the top lot of Christie’s 20th-century art evening sale on May 12 in New York. Number 31 (1949), a colorful drip painting made in oil, enamel, and aluminum paint and
The Toledo Museum of Art Will Deaccession Three Impressionist Paintings That Could Fetch More Than $60 Million at Sotheby’s
When Steve Cohen’s 1932 Picasso comes up for sale at Sotheby’s on May 17, it will be joined on the auction block by three Impressionist paintings from the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA), which could net as much
An International Three-Museum Matisse Extravaganza Will Kick Off in Philadelphia This Fall
On May 19, Sotheby’s will offer up Kerry James Marshall’s painting Beauty Examined for an estimated $8 million to $12 million. Completed in 1993, the year of Marshall’s debut exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, the canvas was acquired by
Winslow Homer Was an Essential Portrayer of America’s Greatest Sins
American artist Winslow Homer is best known for his dramatic seascape paintings of fisherman and rescuers battling harsh maritime elements. But an expansive new show at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art aims to delve far deeper into the artist’s rich and varied life,