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The sale could boost the reputation and prices for Old Master paintings at a time when the art world is focused on post-war and contemporary artists.

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Fourth quarter GDP increased 4.0% vs 4.3% estimate (SPY 0.2%). American Airlines shares rocket nearly 50%. Biggest premarket movers: American Airlines, GameStop, Apple. Here is the current market situation from CNN Money European markets are broadly lower today with shares in France off the most. The CAC 40 is down 1.16% while Londons FTSE 100 is off 1.06% and Germanys DAX is lower by 0.84%. What Is Moving the Markets Here are the headlines moving the markets. Why China Cant Replicate Americas...

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A Sandro Botticelli masterpiece has sold for a record-breaking $92.2 million (€75.9 million) at Sothebys in New York. The 15th-century portrait surpassed its $80 million estimate and achieved the highest ever price for an Old Master at the auction house. "In exceptionally good condition, this painting of a Young Man Holding a Roundel embodies Sandro Botticelli’s greatest achievements as a portraitist," Sothebys said. Its one of the greatest Renaissance works to come to market and was last ...

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The leading Port house has released the latest in its series of venerable Tawny Ports, perfect for those celebrating a special anniversary or birthday this year, but of such intrinsic interest and...

When Suzy Lewis, the granddaughter of the physicist and inventor Thomas Merton, saw that Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Man with a Roundel (“just looking so gorgeous”) was up for sale again, it came as “such a shock”. In December 1982, the family estate sent it to auction at Christie’s. It proved an “absolute disaster”, Lewis says, and sold for just £810,000—it was expected to make “infinitely more”. Everything had been prepared for the portrait to go to the Getty, Lew...

“It is an honor to have this opportunity to showcase a sample of our outstanding collection to art enthusiasts, top dealers, and collectors around the globe,” said T. Barton Thurber, The Loeb’s Anne Hendricks Bass Director and Lecturer in Art. Angelica Kauffmann (Chur 1741 - 1807 Rome) Chrysothemis. Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on prepared paper. Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. Women Picturing Women: From Private Spaces to Public Ventures studies the key themes that emerge...