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painting stories: 74 news summaries

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 Da Vinci Fingerprint 
 IDs Lost Painting 

15th-century portrait hailed as most important Da Vinci find in a century

Oct 13, 09 5:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - A painting bought for $19,000 by a Canadian dealer two years ago has been valued at $150 million after it was determined to be a work by Leonardo Da Vinci. Carbon dating and infrared techniques convinced experts that the portrait on vellum was a genuine Da Vinci. The final... More »

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fingerprint • painting • Leonardo da Vinci • portrait • art dealer

  Warhol Collection 
 Stolen From LA Home 

$1 million reward offered after fortune in original Warhol art vanishes

Sep 12, 09 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - A multi-million dollar collection of portraits by Andy Warhol has been stolen from a prominent collector's home, the Los Angeles Times reports. Former investment banker Richard Weisman's housekeeper discovered that The Athletes series of 11 portraits—worth as much as a million a pop—had vanished when she entered the... More »

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art • Andy Warhol • theft • painting • art collector

OPINION

 How to Bust Art Myths 


Aug 9, 09 5:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Too many people have given up talking about modern art, retreating behind pat statements like “art is subjective,” writes Paddy Johnson in the Christian Science Monitor. Here are some attitudes that drive her crazy: 
  • Anyone could do that: A typical rejoinder is, “
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art • modern art • painting

 Digital Rembrandt Show 
 Restores Lost Details 

Controversial reproductions aim to show the works at they were

Jul 1, 09 8:30 AM CDT
(AP) - The life work of Rembrandt, including all 317 known paintings, goes on display next week in full-sized digital reproductions that attempt to re-create the works as they emerged from the artist's studio. The Complete Rembrandt, Life Size, in Amsterdam, restores sections lopped off of canvases, transforms colors, and brightens up... More »

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art • Netherlands • painting • Amsterdam • Rembrandt • art restoration

 Met Bares 1st Work 
 by Michelangelo, 12 

'St. Anthony Tormented by Demons' amazed young apprentice's master

Jun 19, 09 1:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A work believed to be Michelangelo's first painting has made its American debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Times reports. St. Anthony Tormented by Demons, a customized copy of a German print, is thought to have been painted in 1487 when Michelangelo was a 12-year-old apprentice... More »

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painting • artist • Michelangelo • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Renaissance

(Newser) - Controversial artist Banksy has mounted a huge show at his hometown Bristol City Museum—but the secretive vandal is nowhere to be seem, the Times of London reports. The exhibition was planned in secret through Banksy’s representatives. “We couldn’t even tell the council and the whole... More »

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entertainment • art • England • sculpture • painting • Bristol • graffiti • Banksy • exhibition • Jay-ZTV • Bristol City Museum

 Pitt Drops $1M for Painting 


Jun 9, 09 6:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Brad Pitt played the role of big-time art collector today at the Art Basel fair in Switzerland. Pitt spent about $1 million on a 9-foot painting by Neo Rauch, the Wall Street Journal reports. The 1998 racetrack painting, Etappe, "depicts a swirling view of a driver behind a red,... More »

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Brad Pitt • art • Switzerland • painting • Art Basel • Neo Rauch

 Madonna-Guy 
 Nude Painting 
 Sells, Finally 

Exact price is unknown

Jun 9, 09 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - After failing to sell at auction last month, a painting of Madonna in the buff with ex Guy Ritchie has found a buyer, the BBC reports. An anonymous collector paid more than the $24,000 reserve price demanded by a Scottish house. “We were very confident we would find... More »

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entertainment • Scotland • painting • Glasgow • Madonna • art auction • Guy Ritchie • Peter Howson

 Artists Get What 
 They Want 
 by Painting It 

New York couple makes wanting an art form

Jun 1, 09 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - When Justin Gignac and Christine Santora wanted a pair of gold aviators, they painted a picture of the sunglasses and sold it for $243.84—then went out and bought the pair, for $243.84. The New York artists have amassed other luxuries, like dinner at Nobu, in the same... More »

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entertainment • Barack Obama • art • painting • charity • artist • Jay-ZTV • Justin Gignac • Christine Santora

ART REVIEW

 Francis Bacon's Work 
 Relied on 'Gimmick' 


May 20, 09 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Francis Bacon’s paintings still have the ability to shock, but beneath that initial thrill lies a consistent, even amateur, formula that “had grown stagnant by 1965,” Jerry Saltz writes in New York in previewing a retrospective opening today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The calculated... More »

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Francis Bacon • painting • painter • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Jay-ZTV • fine art • grotesque

Iranian Female Artist Hanged Amid Uproar

Execution follows retracted confession
for alleged murder

May 3, 09 8:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - International supporters yesterday criticized the execution of an Iranian woman for a murder allegedly committed when she was a juvenile, despite a 2-month stay of execution ordered less than 3 weeks ago, the Telegraph reports. Her lawyer wasn’t notified 48 hours before the hanging, as is required. Delara Darabi’... More »

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Iran • execution • capital punishment • painting • hanging • artist • confession • murder charges • Delara Darabi

Hearst Castle Will Return Paintings Seized by Nazis

Descendants of Holocaust victim to reclaim Renaissance artworks

Apr 9, 09 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two Renaissance paintings confiscated by the Nazis will be returned to the descendants of their Jewish owners after decades hanging in California's Hearst Castle, the Los Angeles Times  reports. Relatives of the Oppenheimers, art dealers whose possessions were sold at a forced auction, are traveling from all over the world... More »

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Holocaust • art • painting • William Randolph Hearst • looted art • Nazis • Hearst Castle • San Simeon • Jakob Oppenheimer • Rosa Oppenheimer

More Hitler Paintings Go
Up for Sale

British auction house has 13 thought to be painted by him

Mar 27, 09 9:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British auction house will sell 13 paintings next month attributed to a minor Austrian-born amateur artist: Adolf Hitler. The works, which include a supposed self-portrait signed "AH," were found by a soldier in 1945, Reuters reports, though lingering doubts remain about authenticity. Two years ago, 21 Hitler... More »

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art • Adolf Hitler • painting • art auction • Howard Stern Grid

 Lifetime Portrait of Bard Found 

Work is only living painting of the Bard

Mar 9, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A family heirloom is thought to be the only surviving portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his life, the Telegraph reports. Art restorer Alex Cobbe noticed that a portrait of the Bard in the Folger Shakespeare library in Washington—known to be a posthumous copy of another work—bore an... More »

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theater • art • painting • play • history • William Shakespeare • portrait • Folger Shakespeare Library


 Art World Still 
 Divided on Wyeth 

Some call him modern; others, 'corny Americana'

Jan 17, 09 9:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Andrew Wyeth divided the art community throughout his life, and little seems to have changed with his passing yesterday. While many in the field call him one of the most important 20th-century American artists, others insist his mode of realism makes him more of an illustrator than a serious painter,... More »

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art • painting • critic • painter • artist • Andrew Wyeth

obituary

 Painter Andrew 
 Wyeth Dead at 91 

'Polarizing' Pennsylvanian known for 'Christina's World'

Jan 16, 09 9:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Andrew Wyeth, a painter both celebrated and scorned in the art community, has died at 91 at his home outside Philadelphia. In his paintings, the “polarizing” figure depicted a rural America of fallow fields, faded colors, and weather-beaten people, writes Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times. He was... More »

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art • obituary • Pennsylvania • painting • artist • Andrew Wyeth

 Nude Blago Joins Naked Palin 

Chicago artist
creates 'irreverent' follow-up to nude Palin

Dec 21, 08 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - Somewhere in a Chicago bar, embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich is cavorting in the buff with winkin' Gov. Sarah Palin—or at least if life imitated art, reports the Chicago Tribune. The latest "nude governors" installment from Chicago artist Bruce Elliot imagines Blago reporting for prison. Titled "The... More »

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Chicago • painting • Rod Blagojevich • Sarah Palin • nude

 Louvre May Have Found New Leonardo Sketches

Three drawings found on back of painting

Dec 18, 08 1:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Curators from the Louvre have discovered three sketches on the back of Leonardo da Vinci’s oil painting "Virgin And Child With St Anne" that may be by the master himself, the AFP reports. Museum workers noticed two barely visible sketches, of a horse’s head and a human... More »

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France • art • painting • artist • The Louvre • Leonardo da Vinci

ART REVIEW

 Disturbing Dumas 
 Divides Critics 

South African painter's first American retrospective opens at MoMA

Dec 12, 08 8:26 AM CST
(Newser) - The South African painter Marlene Dumas has established herself as one of the most challenging artists of recent times, and her austere, anonymous portraits are loved and loathed in equal measures. Sure enough, her first American retrospective—entitled Measuring Your Own Grave, opening this week at MoMA in New York—... More »

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art museum • art • painting • painter • Museum of Modern Art • exhibition • Marlene Dumas

 'Risqué' Attic 
 Painting Sells 
 for $4.1M 

Hidden away because it showed a breast

Dec 4, 08 3:27 AM CST
(Newser) - A provocative 18th Century painting, hidden in the attic of a French chateau for decades because it featured a woman with a breast exposed, has fetched $4.1 million from an anonymous buyer at a Christie's auction in London, reports the Daily Telegraph. The price was three times its estimated... More »

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art • Christie's • painting • art auction • Giambatista Tiepolo • Portrait of a Lady as Flora

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