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Sotheby’s will unveil an exceptional portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso’s golden muse, in public for the first time in two decades next month. Buste de femme de profil. Femme écrivant (1932) will be displayed in London from 14 – 19 June ahead of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Evening Art Sale on 19 June 2018. Painted in 1932, Picasso’s annus mirabilis, this monumental—yet remarkably intimate—painting of Marie-Thérèse, absorbed in the act of writing, evokes a private...

ABA Rare Book Fair Comes to London

British broadcasting royalty Sir David Attenborough will open the ABA Rare Book Fair at its new London location in Battersea Park on Thursday 24 May. World-famous naturist and avid book collector Sir David will kick off the fair, which is open to the public and free of charge, at 12pm. Ahead of its inaugural event, the fair’s organisers have revealed some of the sale’s highlights. A fair for all interest levels, from serious collectors to...

French Art Museum Discovers More than Half of Its Paintings Are Fakes

A French art museum dedicated to Catalan artist Étienne Terrus—a close friend of Henri Matisse—has discovered over half of its collection of paintings are fakes. The museum, which is situated in the commune of Elne just outside Perpignan, had just undergone extensive renovation work and was due a grand reopening. But an art historian brought in to reorganise the museum following the recent acquisition of around 80 paintings, found that nearly 60 percent of the...

Julien’s Auctions to Sell Unique Artwork by Legendary New York Graffiti Artist

A recently discovered aerosol on canvas work by Jeffrey Brown, the late ‘King of Style’ graffiti artist, will go on sale at Julien’s Auctions this May. Julien’s biannual Street and Urban Art auction—which features work from street and urban art royalty Banksy, Basquiat, Warhol and more—will take place live in Los Angeles on 2 May 2018. The world record-breaking auction house today announced the work of Jeffrey Brown, aka CASE2, would spearhead the sale. ‘Julien’s...

British Artist Lincoln Townley to Exhibit at La Biennale di Venezia

Art world maverick Lincoln Townley today announced his exhibition at La Biennale in Venice at the prestigious Palazzo Bembo on the Grand Canal. The exhibition, which is the artist’s first outing to the esteemed organization, will take place in May 2019. Townley, who recently sold one of his major ‘Hell’ works using the cryptocurrency Bitcoin for over half a million pounds, will use the Venice exhibition to unveil his ‘Behind The Mask’ collection, valued at...

Rare Edition of Das Kapital Goes on Sale

To mark the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth, the U.K.’s largest rare bookseller, Peter Harrington, will offer several of his books for sale. The books will include an ‘exceptional’ rare first edition of the first volume of Marx’s great work, Das Kapital, of which only 1,000 copies were printed. Within the theoretical text—whose title translates to Capital: Critique of Political Economy—Marx famously proposed that the exploitation of labour was the motivating force of capitalism....

The Beatles and Rock ‘n’ Roll ‘Discovery Day’ Arrives at Hard Rock Cafe New York

The Beatles Story and Julien’s Auctions will bring Beatles and Rock ‘n’ Roll ‘Discovery Day’ to Hard Rock Café New York on Thursday 17th May 2018. The event, which is being held at Hard Rock International—home to the world’s largest collection of music memorabilia—will give members of the public, fans and collectors the chance to have their Beatles and Rock ‘n’ Roll memorabilia appraised for free by experts. Following the success of previous events held...

Rockefeller Art Sale Could Fetch $1 Billion

The vast art collection amassed by David Rockefeller will go under the hammer at Christie’s New York from 8-10 May. The auction house is calling the three-day auction ‘the most anticipated art world event of the spring season’. The sale, which coincides with a substantial upswing in the art market, could make history by achieving the enormous sum of $1 billion. No other estate auction has ever surpassed that figure. All proceeds from the Christie’s auction,...

Remarkable ‘Looted’ Bronze Teapot Sells for £410,000