Modern Art

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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Portrait of Medea Taci, a work attributed to the young Amedeo Modigliani, goes up for auction.

Going up for auction in a few days is a controversial painting, the Portrait of Medea Taci, which has for years been at the center of a debate over its attribution to Amedeo Modigliani. But this is not the only peculiarity of the L'École de Pa...
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Louvre, restored Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People: now we see the original colors

After six months of restoration, one of the iconic paintings in the history of French art, Eugène Delacroix 's (Saint-Maurice, 1798 - Paris, 1863) Liberty Leading the People regains its original colors. Delacroix's work, perhaps the Louvre 's ...
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Trapani, Pepoli Regional Museum acquires two works by Renato Guttuso

Trapani 's Pepoli Regional Museum is preparing to welcome two new contemporary works of significant artistic value. On Friday, May 3, at 5 p.m. in the museum's conference room, two recently acquired autograph canvases by Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 191...
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Lungomare ad Arte: a project in Livorno to learn about the places of great artists

Livorno's waterfront is filled with art: in fact, the Lungomare ad Arte project, promoted by the Agave cooperative, winner of the funds provided by the Livorno Foundation's Interventi per l'Arte e la Cultura 2023 call for proposals, has been presente...
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USA, museum auctions impressionist masterpiece by Monet. Estimated at $18-25 million

From one of the most important U.S. museums to the art market. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City has announced the sale of a Claude Monet painting, Mill in Limetz, an 1888 work that was donated in 1986 to the institution by collector Eth...
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Important Van Gogh painting sold at TEFAF: non-European museum buys it

Among the major sales at the 2024 edition of TEFAF, number 36 of the major international antiques fair, is one of the most illustrious pieces in the entire exhibition: a painting by Vincent van Gogh (Zundert, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890), the T&ecir...
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Important discovery in Savona: six carpets by Arturo Martini unearthed. Displayed in exhibition

Important discovery in Savona, where six unpublished textile works by Arturo Martini (Treviso, 1889 - Milan, 1947) have been found, which until now were known only as drawings mentioned in the critical literature: in fact, their actual execution was ...
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At auction Magritte's masterpiece: L'Ami intime starts at an estimate of £30-50 million

The world's largest auction house, Christie's, will auction the 1958 work L'ami intime by René Magritte (Lessines, 1898 - Rue des Mimosas, 1967). Estimated at £30-50 million, the painting is the centerpiece of The Art of The Surreal Evening...
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A cat enters the Van Gogh Museum: it's Paul Gauguin's kitten

A black kitten is a special guest at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. We're not talking about a cat in the flesh, however, but a painted feline: at the institution that preserves the world's largest nucleus of works by Vincent van Gogh (Zundet, 185...
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Postmacchiaioli and Divisionists on display in Livorno (with a rediscovered masterpiece by Renato Natali)

Tuscan Postmacchiaioli and Divisionists are the protagonists of an exhibition at the 800/900 Art Studio Gallery in Livorno, which is organizing an exhibition at its headquarters in Via Roma 67 from December 2, 2023 to January 20, 2024, to display som...
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The Metropolitan Museum of New York acquires a large Tiffany window by Agnes Northrop

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced today the acquisition of a monumental three-part Tiffany window, entitled Garden Landscape. The window, more than ten feet wide and nearly seven feet high, was designed by Agnes Northrop in the stu...
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Sketch of a masterpiece by Cristiano Banti, pioneer of the Macchiaioli movement, goes up for auction in Rome

One of the preparatory sketches of Boscaiole con fascine, one of the most beautiful paintings by Cristiano Banti (Santa Croce sull'Arno, 1824 - Montemurlo, 1904), a painter of the Macchiaioli group and an early pioneer, along with Signorini and Cabia...
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