뉴욕 유수의 미술품 경매장을 포함한 구매자들을 사취한 혐의를 받은 부녀가 법정에서 사과했습니다. 뉴저지의 한 부녀는 Andy Warhol, Banksy, Pablo Picasso 등 유명 예술가들의 위조품을 화랑과 경매장이 구매하도록 속이기 위해 수년 동안 위조 공모를 운영한 사실에 대해 유죄를 인정했습니다. 연방 검찰은 Erwin Bankowski(50세)와 Karolina Bankowska(26세)가 Poland의 한 예술가에게 최소 200점의 위조품 제작을 의뢰했으며, 결과적으로 구매자들로부터 최소 200만 달러를 편취했다고 밝혔습니다. Continue reading...
Ari Hodara bought his ticket at the weekend after finding out about the raffle by chance while dining outA Parisian art enthusiast could not believe his luck when he found out on Tuesday he had won a Pablo Picasso painting worth more than €1m with a €100 raffle ticket.“How do I check that it’s not a hoax?” said Ari Hodara, 58, after organisers called him following the draw at Christie’s auction house in the French capital. Continue reading...
Number of tickets to win Tête de Femme will be capped at 120,000 and proceeds will go to Alzheimer’s researchA raffle in France is offering the chance to win a portrait by Pablo Picasso for the price of a €100 (£87) ticket, with proceeds going to Alzheimer’s research.Picasso painted the gouache-on-paper Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman) in 1941. The raffle organisers’ online sales platform says the number of tickets will be capped at 120,000, meaning the draw could net €12m if they are all sold. Continue reading...
Madrid and Basque government leaders call each other ‘provincial’ in dispute over the artworkA row has broken out between the Madrid and Basque regional governments in Spain over the latter’s request for Guernica, probably Picasso’s most celebrated work, to be housed temporarily in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to mark the 90th anniversary of the bombing of the Basque town.The work has hung in the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid since 1992 and repeated requests for it to be moved to the Basque Country have been refused. Continue reading...
Piece by late South African artist Dumile Feni is part of new series History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme On the second floor of the Reina Sofía, in the very spot where Picasso’s Guernica was first exhibited when it arrived in the Madrid museum 34 years ago, there now hangs a smaller, near-namesake of the Spanish artist’s most famous work.While African Guernica, which was drawn by the late South African artist Dumile Feni in 1967, may lack the scale of Picasso’s masterpiece, its depth, anger and unnerving juxtaposition of man and beast, light and dark, and innocence and cruelty, are every bit as disturbing. Continue reading...