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October 7, 2008 11:01:58 PM CDT


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  • March 2008
    • Getty Lands a Morbid Gauguin

      Getty Lands a Morbid Gauguin

      (Newser) - The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired an 1892 work by Paul Gauguin the Los Angeles institution's curator calls "the most famous painting by Gauguin that no one has seen," the Los Angeles Times reports. Arii Matamoe (The Royal End) —bought from a Swiss collector for an undisclosed sum—is one of the painter's most morbid Tahitian paintings, depicting a severed head on a pillow. More »

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      Los Angeles   art   art market   J. Paul Getty Museum   Paul Gauguin

  • December 2007
    • Gauguin Sculpture a Fake

      Gauguin Sculpture a Fake

      (Newser) - After a decade on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, a ceramic figure allegedly sculpted by Paul Gauguin was revealed yesterday to be a fake. The museum discovered 'The Faun,' a half-man, half-goat figure, to be the work not of the 19th century French artist, but of a British family notorious for producing art forgeries, the AP reports. More »

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      Great Britain   Chicago   art market   art auction   art museum   forgeries   forgery   Paul Gauguin

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