Christie’s to auction Ed Cox’s impressionist paintings valued at $200M
The late oilman’s collection includes masterpieces by Caillebotte, Cézanne and Van Gogh.
Vincent van Gogh s Cabanes de bois parmi les oliviers et cyprès is expected to bring in approximately $40 million at Christie s auction of Edwin L. Cox s Impressionist collection in November.
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In his 99-year lifetime, Dallas oil billionaire Edwin “Ed” L. Cox Sr. assembled a remarkable private collection of impressionist paintings, including masterpieces by Caillebotte, Cézanne and Van Gogh.
Christie’s will announce on Thursday that it will auction “The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism” in November at its Rockefeller Galleries in New York.
Sneak peek: Immersive Van Gogh puts audience inside the iconic artist s paintings
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Two presenters who met at a 2017 conference at W&L joined forces to repatriate a stolen Nepali deity
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Story by Lindsey Nair
Professional conferences usually are considered a success when attendees pick up innovative ideas, do some networking or even land a plum job. But those outcomes sound mundane compared to what happened in the aftermath of a 2017 conference at Washington and Lee University.
After meeting at a conference on the ethics of acquiring cultural heritage objects in March of that year, two presenters – artist and activist Joy Lynn Davis and Erin Thompson, an art crime professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice – began a collaboration that would ultimately lead to an FBI investigation, a seizure from a Dallas museu