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NEWS ABOUT: Degas

Degas stories: 5 news summaries

 Color Christie's Blue 
 Over Weak Modern Sale 

Picasso, Mondrian flop at sparsely attended auction

Nov 4, 09 9:26 AM CST
(Newser) - A New York art dealer at the Christie's auction last night decreed "the recession is ending," but apparently not soon enough to move 13 of 41 modern and impressionist art works on offer, leaving the auction house millions of dollars short of pre-sale estimates. Major works by Picasso... More »

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art market • Christie's • Picasso • art auction • Degas • art dealer • Piet Mondrian • Auguste Rodin

 Buyers Return 
 for Healthy 
 Christie's Sale 

Auction house pulls in $103M, besting rival Sotheby's

May 7, 09 7:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - The art market performed better last night at Christie's New York sale of Impressionist and modern art, pulling in $103 million after a lackluster showing by its rival Sotheby's on Tuesday. The top lot was a 1968 portrait by Picasso, which sold for $14.6 million. As the Wall Street ... More »

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art market • Christie's • art auction • Pablo Picasso • Degas

 Art Market Stalls 
 at Grim Fall Sale 

Malevich sets record, but Sotheby's has a slow night in New York

Nov 4, 08 7:00 AM CST
(Newser) - In New York last night Sotheby's held a lackluster auction that portended a grim year ahead for the once buoyant art market. Of 70 lots at the sale of impressionist and modern art, fully 25 found no buyers. There was one bit of good news for the market: a... More »

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art market • art • Sotheby's • auction • Degas • financial crisis

Stolen Art Found in Parking Lot

4 paintings snatched from Swiss museum recovered

Feb 19, 08 6:55 AM CST
(Newser) - The four 19th-century paintings stolen from a Swiss museum have reportedly been found in an unlocked car parked outside a Zurich psychiatric hospital. Although police have not yet confirmed the find, Swiss media are reporting that the $168 million worth of loot—one work each by Cézanne, Degas, Monet,... More »

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art • Switzerland • painting • Zurich • Vincent Van Gogh • Monet • Cézanne • Degas • art heist • Emile Bührle Foundation

$160M in Art Stolen in Zurich

 'Spectacular' heist nets 4 masterpieces by Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, and Cezanne

Feb 11, 08 9:10 AM CST
(Newser) - A gang of armed art thieves absconded with four masterpieces by Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, and Cezanne worth $160 million from a Zurich museum yesterday. The brazen daytime robbery follows a theft of two Picassos in Switzerland just two days earlier. The three masked thieves confronted a guard with guns,... More »

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art • theft • painting • Vincent Van Gogh • Monet • Cezanne • Degas • art heist

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