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Christie’s Pulls T. Rex From Auction November 22, 2022
Christie’s said Sunday that it was withdrawing a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton that it had been planning to auction this month in Hong Kong, where it was initially expected to fetch between $15 million and $25 million, after questions were raised about ...
Manet's Best Friend September 19, 2022
In October, the first movement of the Ann and Gordon Getty collection auctions at Christie’s in New York will start with a bang. Or rather, a bark.Édouard Manet’s most famous pictures, including Olympia (1863), The Luncheon on the Grass (1863) and A ...
One of the Most-Mocked Paintings in U.S. History July 12, 2022
In 1939, the United States government awarded what was then the most expensive artistic commission in its history to Howard Chandler Christy, saddling the Capitol with a most curious white elephant....
Her ‘Chagall’ Is Headed for the Trash July 11, 2022
The question of whether a valuable artwork is genuine can be surprisingly fluid, changing over time based on evolving and sometime competing evaluations.In 1973, for example, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reattributed roughly 300 paintings in its co...
