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The renowned art dealer Richard L. Feigen has died at the age of 90. Feigen set up his first gallery in Chicago in 1957, later opening in New York where he forged a reputation as one of the world’s leading dealers of Old Master paintings. During his lifetime, Feigen assembled an extraordinary private collection, with particular strengths in Italian paintings, British landscapes and 20th-century German art – holdings that he opened to Apollo in March 2014 when Susan Moore visited him at his ...

Richard Feigen Courtesy of Frances F.L. Beatty The influential New York-based dealer and connoisseur Richard Feigen, known especially for championing and leading the Old Masters market, has died, aged 90. According to a notice in the New York Times, he died in his sleep after a brief illness with Covid-19 pneumonia. Feigen opened his first gallery in Chicago in 1957, later expanding to New York. From 1965 to 1973, he showed works by artists such as Max Beckmann, Joseph Cor...

UI Museum of Art makes progress toward completion Follow Us Question of the Day By VANESSA MILLER - Associated Press - Sunday, January 31, 2021 IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Some 70 to 80 years ago - in the days of Nile Kinnick, Tennessee Williams and Virgil Hancher - the University of Iowa’s School of Art and Art History began hosting exhibitions and collecting contemporary works, including Max Beckmann’s “Karne...

2022 opening will return Jackson Pollocks Mural to Iowa City Construction continues Jan. 14 on the new University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art in Iowa City. The facility, when it opens to the public likely in 2022, will mark a new home for the UI’s art collection after it was driven from campus in 2008 because of historic flooding. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) Construction continues Jan. 14 on the new University of Iowa’s Stanley Museum of Art in Iowa City. The facility, when it opens t...

Max Beckmanns Self-Portrait Florence was the most expensive acquisition Hamburg Kunsthalle ever made. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk Photo: Elke Walford The first online catalogue raisonné devoted to the German artist Max Beckmann will go live tomorrow with photographs of 843 paintings. Beckmann died just over 70 years ago on 27 December 1950 meaning his work entered the public domain at the end of last year. The new platform, accessible from 3 ...

Germany returns latest Nazi-looted work from Gurlitt art trove Germany says it has now returned 14 artworks — from a collection looted by the Nazis from Jewish owners — to their rightful heirs. A painting by German artist Otto Dix being moved ahead of an exhibition of works from the Gurlitt trove German officials said on Wednesday they had returned to its rightful owners the last of 14 artworks unambiguously confirmed as having been looted by the Nazis. Culture Minister Monika Grütters sa...

©Nikolay Antonov/Shutterstock.com Hamburg is Germany’s largest port, and it is one of that country’s leading commercial centers. It also boasts a vibrant group of museums headlined by the Hamburger Kunsthalle, where these 22 paintings can be found. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Interior of a Church (1660/70) During the 17th cen...

Dan Nadel on Philip Guston’s Jewishness Philip Guston, If This Be Not I, 1945, oil on canvas, 42 1/4 × 55 1/4". © The Estate of Philip Guston. TO BE A JEW in twentieth-century America was to be an outsider. We Jews gathered in temples and schools, we bought properties, physical and intellectual, to maintain control of our environments. We formed our own magazines. We exploited ourselves and others. Ashkenazi Jews can pass as non-Jewish when it suits...

Ken Hughes obituary Ken Hughes was head of the sculpture department at Bath Academy of Art, where he taught from 1965 to 1985 Ken Hughes was head of the sculpture department at Bath Academy of Art, where he taught from 1965 to 1985 TimHughes Wed 30 Dec 2020 12.33 EST Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 18.21 EST My father, Ken Hughes, who has died aged 93, was a sculptor and lecturer. His speciality was extremely lifelike and well observed portrait heads. But he also explored other ways of making ...

When the world reopens, will art museums still be there? Christine Spolar © Photograph by Marco Di Lauro, Getty Images Visitors descend the Bramante Staircase at Italy’s Vatican Museums on June 8, 2020. Before the coronavirus pandemic, the site averaged 25,000 daily visitors. But during its summer reopening, the museums of antiquities and art saw only about 3,000 people a day. In the winter of 2020, the Vatican Museums closed again due to government shutdowns. In early March...