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Norfolk resident Barbara de Dozsa refuses to return Antonio Solario's "Madonna and Child", stolen in 1973 from the Civic Museum of Belluno (Italy), reports Artguide
Some time ago Mrs de Dozsa's husband acquired the work without knowing its provenance. The painting, which appeared on Interpol's lists, came to notice after its owner tried to sell it through an auction house in 2017. Because of the COVID-19 epidemic, the Italian authorities
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Christie's "Post-War to Present" sale on 27 February totalled $21.3 million, reports artnews.com
The total proceeds of Christie's "Post-War to Present" sale, held on 27 February, came to $21.3 million, reports artnews.com. The most expensive lot of the evening was Helen Frankenthaler's abstraction Concerto, dated 1982. The lot went under the hammer for $2.
In the Press · Art · London · Observations
“For three years now London has held no Russian sale, the famous auction that had existed in one form or another since the late 1980s
“For three years now London has held no Russian sale, the famous auction that had existed in one form or another since the late 1980s. It was a golden age: the descendants of Russian émigrés and celebrities such as Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, or Prince and Princess Michael of
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Time magazine covers predicting global cooling (1973-1979) and global warming (1987-2007)
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Former President of Israel says Queen Elizabeth refused to admit Israelis to Buckingham Palace because she believed that "every Israeli is either a terrorist or the son of a terrorist"
In the Press · Faith · Observations · Society
Deputy Governor of the Central Bank Sergei Belov has told Izvestia in an interview that the Bank has decided to abandon religious buildings altogether as images on banknotes:
"...when we changed the concept of banknote design and moved from the city series to the regional one (each banknote is now devoted to one of the federal districts), we decided at the same time to give up depicting objects of religious purpose." In other words, roubles will
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Norman Rockwell's Painting "Picasso versus John Singer Sargent"
In 1966 it appeared on the cover of LOOK magazine
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Good Lord, how touching!
Good Lord, how touching! A memorial notice of the death of Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon king of England, in the Hastings Observer
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My new column on cultural codes appears in the September issue of RBC Style
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In 1960 Life Magazine Ran Reproductions of Anatoly Zverev and a Piece by Alexander Marshack, “The Art of Russia That Nobody Has Seen”
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New Literary Observer has published "Doctor Zhivago as a Historical Novel", by the philologist Konstantin Polivanov, a study of Boris Pasternak's principal novel, of the prototypes of its heroes, of Pasternak's spiritual and political evolution, and of ho
New Literary Observer (Novoye literaturnoye obozreniye) has published "Doctor Zhivago as a Historical Novel" by the philologist Konstantin Polivanov. The book deals with Boris Pasternak's principal novel, the prototypes of the heroes of his famous work, Pasternak's spiritual and political evolution, and the way