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01 July 2026

Heir of German Jewish Collector Seeks Return of Van Gogh Painting from Mus�e d'Orsay

Klaus Kallmann is 98 years old, but he still remembers being a little boy and looking at a painting by Vincent van Gogh that hung in his grandfather's Berlin villa until the early 1930s. The work depicts the artist's doctor, Theophile Peyron, standing by a gnarled tree, his hands on his hips, in front of the mental hospital he ran, where Van Gogh was also a patient. ... read more (external link)

01 July 2026

Long-Forgotten Rembrandt, Revealed by Restoration, Comes to Auction

A long-forgotten Rembrandt painting presents a timeless story: The prodigal son returns and attempts to impress his parents. In 1620, Rembrandt dropped out of university, dashing his parents' hopes of a stable career, and over the coming years burdened them with the cost of apprenticeships. By 1627, the 20-year-old had come home to Leiden from Amsterdam and, with a compassionate painting of Christ blessing a throng of children, showed that the family guilders hadn't been wasted. Unknown until the late 2010s, the early work will appear at Sotheby's Old Masters sale in London on July 1, where it is expected to realize between GBP 8 million and GBP 12 million ($10.6 million and $15.9 million). ... read more (external link)

01 July 2026

Swiss Institute Buys Space by New Museum, Plans Bowery Move

At the start of the year, the stretch of the Bowery just below East Houston was unsettlingly quiet on the cultural front. The Sperone Westwater gallery had shuttered its Norman Foster's�designed headquarters, and the New Museum's OMA-helmed expansion was still underway. Salon 94 had decamped a few years earlier. But things can change quickly in Manhattan. ... read more (external link)

01 July 2026

Christie's Old Masters Sale in London Totals $51.4 M. as Collectors Chase Standout Pictures

Since Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold for $236.4 million last November, clinching the title of second most expensive artwork to sell at auction, the secondary market's mantra can best be summed up as collectors will open their hearts and their wallets for exceptional work. ... read more (external link)

24 June 2026

Art Loss Register Recovers 17th-Century Flemish Painting Stolen in 2020

The London-based Art Loss Register said Tuesday that it had recovered a 17th-century Flemish painting that had been stolen in September 2020 from a private residence in Canada. The missing painting was reported to police and logged with the Art Loss Register shortly after its theft. The stolen painting, Interior of a Collector's Cabinet: An Allegory of Sight (ca. 1660) by Jan van Kessel the Elder and Abraham Willemsens, was identified in October 2023 ahead of a planned sale at Sotheby's. The auction house cross-checked the painting with the Art Loss Register's database of stolen works as part of its due diligence, which ultimately matched it with the work taken in 2020. ... read more (external link)

24 June 2026

Masterpieces from the Reuben Collection to Go on View at the Courtauld Gallery in London

The Courtauld Gallery in London announced this week that it will put on view works from the Reuben Collection alongside works from its own holdings this fall. Opening September 18, the exhibition, titled Modern Painting from the Courtauld and Reuben Collections - will feature works by Paul Cezanne, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Amedeo Modigliani, Rene Magritte, Man Ray, and Pablo Picasso. ... read more (external link)

24 June 2026

How Did M.C. Escher Develop His Mind-Bending, Paradoxical World?

M.C. Escher was one of those rare artists to become a pop cultural icon. His most emblematic works are instantly recognizable, and continue to beguile new fans with their startlingly original, paradoxical constructions. It is little wonder that some of Escher’s best-loved optical illusions have been reinvented and referenced countless times, appearing on album covers, inspiring films like The Matrix (1999) and Inception (2010), and even being parodied by Family Guy and The Simpsons. ... read more (external link)

24 June 2026

Art Basel's Unlimited Sector for Giant-Sized Projects: By the Numbers

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven - Ecclesiastes says. When it comes to large-scale, big-budget artworks, that time is Monday afternoon in Basel, Switzerland, when Art Basel's Unlimited sector opens to invited guests. It offers a rare chance to see enormous and complicated artworks that may soon be shipped off to a collector's private island (or storage space) or plunked down in a far-flung sculpture park. If you want to understand what capital can accomplish in the art world, it is an essential visit. ... read more (external link)

10 June 2026

Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus Is Complete for the First Time in 400 Years

A 400-year-old act of editorial vandalism has finally been undone online. Florence's Galileo Museum has reunited Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus with more than 500 pages that were later cut from it, restoring for the first time the full sweep of the master's largest surviving notebook. ... read more (external link)

10 June 2026

MoMA to Present the First Survey of Piet Mondrian's New York Paintings

The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian's years in New York in particular, the influence of the city's boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian's paintings either made or completed between his move to New York in 1940 and his death there in 1944. ... read more (external link)

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