Archive for the ‘modern art’ Category
By Emily Waldorf According to the The International Herald Tribune, a 1911 Fernand Léger painting, Smoke Over Rooftops, was returned to the heirs of Alphonse Kann by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, after a decade of research concluded that the painting had been stolen by Nazis during World War II. Léger examined the “smoke over […]
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Tags: Alphonse Kann, Fernand Leger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Museum Returns Painting, Nazi Loot, Smoke Over Rooftops
By Emily Waldorf If money were no object, which works of art would you pick out from the 20th century to create the ne plus ultra in art collections? Private art advisers Franck Giraud and Philippe Ségalot of the New York and Paris based art consultancy Giraud.Pissarro.Ségalot (François Pinault is a client) take a stab […]
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Tags: Franck Giraud, Philippe Ségalot, The Impossible Collection
Holland Cotter wrote a delicious review of Louise Bourgeois, currently at the Guggenheim through September 28, 2008. Bourgeois, 97, was born in Paris and lives in New York. While her work has been associated with the major movements of the 20th century, she has remained faithful to a style uniquely her own in the face of […]
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Tags: Guggenheim, Holland Cotter, Louise Bourgeois, Modern sculpture