Modern Art

The Royal Museums of Turin acquire a masterpiece by Cesare Saccaggi

The Royal Museums of Turin are adding an important new work to their permanent collection, further enriching their repertoire of art and history. It is A Babylon (Semiramis), a painting made around 1905 by Piedmontese painter Cesare Saccaggi (Tortona...
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"I'd like to come in your mouth": erotic letters by Gustave Courbet discovered. They will be exhibited

An exceptional discovery that was announced a few days ago in France: an unpublished correspondence between one of France's greatest artists, Gustave Courbet (Ornans, 1819 - La-Tour-de-Peilz, 1877) and a Parisian woman, Mathilde Carly de Svazzema, tw...
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A rare Claude Monet seascape goes up for auction: it is the only painting in winter

An important painting by Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926), Mer agitée à Pourville, goes up for auction at Lempertz in Cologne on Nov. 29: executed in 1882, it is Monet's only beach scene depicting the Normandy landscape during...
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Klimt used platinum in GNAM's Three Ages. Expert: "discovery that confirms our knowledge"

A "great discovery" about Gustav Klimt? So in a note sent in recent days by the National Gallery of Umbria to communicate the results of the analysis conducted on The Three Ages, the work by Klimt that belongs to the National Gallery of Modern Art in...
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For the first time, Monet's masterpiece that founded Impressionism is exhibited in the U.S.

For the first time in its history, one of the founding masterpieces ofImpressionism, namely Impression, soleil levant, an 1872 work by Claude Monet kept at the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, has flown across the ocean to be displayed in an ex...
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A precious canvas from Monet's Water Lilies series goes up for auction at Christie's

One of the canvases from the Water Lilies series by Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926) will be auctioned off on Sept. 26 at Christie's, during the 20th / 21st Century Inaugural Evening Sale taking place at the British auction house's Hong Kon...
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Vittoriano sculptures restored: winged Victory and eagle shine again

At the Vittoriano, one of Rome's most famous symbols, the restoration of the left flagpole, with the bronze eagle, designed by Gaetano Vannicola (Offida, 1859 - Grottammare, 1923), and the Winged Victory, by Turin sculptor Edoardo Rubino (Turin, 1871...
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Three works by Pellizza da Volpedo rediscovered. Which are now on display in what was once his studio.

Three important paintings by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (Volpedo, 1868 - 1907) have been rediscovered after decades, and now they are all on display in an exhibition at the Pellizza Studio-Museum in Volpedo (Alessandria), the birthplace of the grea...
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The National Gallery in London acquires a masterpiece by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Significant purchase by the National Gallery in London , which, to celebrate its 200th birthday, gives itself a masterpiece by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dronryp, 1836 - Wiesbaden, 1912), a work entitled After the audience, "After the audience", a paintin...
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For the first time, an Australian public museum purchases a Gauguin painting

An important painting by Paul Gauguin (Paris, 1848 - Hiva Oa, 1903) has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra , and so Australian public collections can now boast their first Gauguin painting. The work acquired is The Blue Ro...
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Romania, Brâncuși monumental complex becomes World Heritage Site

Constantin Brâncuși becomes a UNESCO World Heritage Site: the monumental Târgu Jiu complex in Romania, The Path of Heroes, which the great pioneer of abstract sculpture created between 1937 and 1938, has indeed become a World Heritage Si...
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Torre del Lago presents the correspondence between Ferruccio Pagni and Giacomo Puccini

On Saturday, July 27, theAuditorium Simonetta Puccini in Torre del Lago will host the presentation of the volume Caro Ferro. Il carteggio tra Ferruccio Pagni e Giacomo Puccini nell'Archivio di Torre del Lago, edited by Francesca Degiorgio and publish...
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Two exhibitions to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the passing of Alberto Martini, Symbolist genius

The year 2024 marks the anniversary of the passing of Alberto Martini (Oderzo 1876 - Milan 1954), one of the most influential and visionary artists of the Symbolist scene and forerunner of Surrealism, and celebrations are being prepared to commemorat...
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Van Gogh Museum acquires Gauguin painting depicting his son

Major purchase for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam , which is securing a work by Paul Gauguin (Paris, 1848 - Hiva Oa, 1903), Clovis endormi ("Sleeping Clovis"), from 1884, a painting depicting Gauguin's five-year-old son. The work had gone to auctio...
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Florence, restoration of Vincenzo Peruzzi monument in Santa Croce ends

The restoration of the funeral monument of Vincenzo Peruzzi, a key figure in the history of pre-unification Florence who played a crucial role in the city's development, has been completed in Florence . The monument, located in the Santa Croce comple...
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Rare early Picasso painting goes up for auction in Paris

A rare early work by Pablo Picasso (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973) will go up for auction next Wednesday, June 5, at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris. It is a painting executed by a Picasso in his early twenties, around 1900: titled El campanar ...
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