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Painting from Monet’s Meules (Haystacks) series sold at auction for $110.7m in May 2019
Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) lived and painted within a few miles of his home in Giverny in Normandy for over 40 years until his death. This is part of the Meules series of 25 landscapes in which Monet sought to capture the ever-changing light at different times of day and seasons and in different weather in the […]
A new Banksy (possibly!)
FROM THIS MOMENT DESPAIR ENDS AND TACTICS BEGIN The new street painting – depicting a child planting a seedling and holding the Extinction Rebellion logo – is not a verified Banksy – but is almost certainly his latest work. It appeared over the last night of the April 2019 London protest and has attracted […]
Long-lost Caravaggio masterpiece – London pre-auction viewing at the Colnaghi Gallery
Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1607). Courtesy of Cabinet Turquin “There are only 65 of his paintings in the world, and I found the 66th painting in an attic” (Labarbe, Toulouse auctioneer) This second version of Caravaggio (Michele Angelo Merigi da Caravaggio, 1571 – 1610)’s Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in a French attic in a Toulouse […]