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Wandering Eye: Of Swindlers and Sealing Wax Editorial Staff Courtesy of the Weiss Gallery, London. CURIOUS OBJECTS Strongly influenced by William Morris and the arts and crafts movement, and best known for his vibrantly colored ceramic tiles,  William De Morgan was a prolific artist whose work adorned many residences and public buildings throughout England. While tiles earned him steady commissions, his work in three dimensions is just as important. Here’s an introduction. ( Pardon our del...

Courtesy of Christies Beginning today, April 29, Christies will offer The Collector: Online sale in collaboration with tastemaker and fashion visionary, Peter Copping. Copping, who is the former artistic director of Oscar de la Renta and has worked across fashion houses like Louis Vuitton, Nina Ricci, and Sonia Rykiel, is an avid collector of antiques. He has spent the last 12 years renovating his 15th-century chateau, La Carlière, in Normandy, France, along with his partner Rambert Rigaud. ...

New volume in Frick Diptych Series focuses on Titians Pietro Aretino Titian. Pietro Aretino, ca. 1537. Oil on canvas. 40 1/8 × 33 3/4 inches. The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Joe Coscia. NEW YORK, NY .-The Frick Collection announces the sixth title in its popular Diptych series. The new volume, available at Frick Madison and through the museum’s website, focuses on Titian’s extraordinary portrait of the famed Italian writer, poet, playwright, and satirist Pietro Aretino. Each book in t...

Tintoretto’s daughter was an acclaimed artist in her own right but there is frustratingly little to go on, writes Rebecca Ann Hughes, when it comes to identifying her paintings

Colnaghi to manage "Madrid Caravaggio" restoration, authentication, and sale Renowned gallery will lead scholarly assessment, scientific analysis, restoration, and subsequent sale. Photo: Ansorena. MADRID .-Colnaghi gallery has been selected to spearhead the scholarly assessment, scientific analysis, and restoration of an Ecce Homo painting now understood to be by the great Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The oil on canvas depicting Christ being crowned with thorns was origina...

Jeff Koons in Paris in 2018. Photo by Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images. Megawatt art-market star Jeff Koons is ditching powerhouse galleries Gagosian and David Zwirner to be represented exclusively by Pace Gallery worldwide in what amounts to a major shift in the art industry’s power rankings. “Sometimes professionally in life, we can find ourselves at a crossroads,” Koons, the world’s most expensive living artist, said in a statement announcing the change. “Going through the l...

Is this the art crime of the century? April 26, 2021 Giuliano Ruffini in Emilie-Romagne near Parma on February 05, 2020 . (Photo by Baptiste Giroudon/Paris Match via Getty Images) A version of this story first appeared in the spring 2021 Artnet Intelligence Report, which you can download in full for free here. “One name keeps cropping up in regard to people not to be trusted due to their links with forgeries—that of Giuliano Ruffini.” So begins a 3,000-word anonymous letter sent to the P...

Colnaghi will take on the further research of this painting, believed by some to be by Caravaggio Courtesy of Ansorena One of the world’s oldest commercial galleries, Colnaghi, will oversee the restoration, authentication and subsequent sale of a painting withdrawn from auction in Madrid earlier this month which some Old Master specialists say could be by the 16th-century artist Caravaggio. The work, entitled The Crowning of Thorns, was due to be sold at Ansorena auctio...

Art Industry News: Robert Indiana Estate Follies Continue as D.A. Says It Overpaid Lawyers by a Whopping $3.7 Million + Other Stories Plus, the ousted director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts gets a new gig and a coveted late Van Gogh could fetch $35 million at auction. LOVE sculpture in Central Park, New York City in 1971. Photo: Jack Mitchell/Getty Images. Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what y...

From a 19th-century table that inspired a lament to the work of a modern craftsman Sheppard’s Great Irish Interiors sale features two tables by Cork men 150 years apart about 7 hours ago   Sheppard’s Great Irish Interiors sale, which will be held in a live online auction on April 28th and April 29th lists two important tables. Both were designed by Cork men but created almost 150 years apart. They could not be more different – from a profusely carved 19th-century piece with a nationalis...