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☆ Scottish council buys 18th century bust for $6. Now it could sell for $3 million
  + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —An 18th century bust bought for £5 ($6) nearly 100 years ago by a Scottish town council could sell for more than £2.5 million ($3 million). The bust of landowner and lawmaker John Gordon was sculpted by noted French artist Edmé Bouchardon. Now, local politicians on Invergordon Town Council are weighing up whether to sell the item, described by Sotheby’s as “brilliant in execution,” according to a council report. Despite its illustrious creator, there are few details publicly available about where the bust has been since it was purchased by the council. I found the robes and there was this bust just propping the door open,” she said.
Persons: John Gordon, Edmé Bouchardon, Sotheby’s, Gordon, Invergordon, Bouchardon, Louis XV, Maxine Smith, “, ” Organizations: CNN, Invergordon, Concorde, Louvre Museum, Getty Center, Inverness Museum, Art Locations: Scottish, Edinburgh, Rome, Paris, Los Angeles, Scotland
☆ Purging Books, Making Art and Ruling Chicago
  + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Sadie Stein | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
First published in 1982 with the straightforward subtitle “A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin,” this is in fact so much more. Yes, Weschler explores Irwin’s early years with the California Abstract Expressionist school, and his move into spatial experimentation. You’ll come away with solid knowledge of the 20th-century art world. In Irwin’s own words: “For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. Once you let them in, you’ve already done the first and most critical thing, you’ve honored that information by including it.
Persons: Robert Irwin, Weschler, You’ll, it’s, you’ve, ”, John Cage’s, Dick ”, Werner Herzog’s “, Morgana Organizations: Contemporary, Getty, Dia Locations: California
☆ A purchase at a small town sale turned out to be a 'priceless' de Kooning painting stolen in 1985
  + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Monica Buchanan Pitrelli | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +8 min
On the morning of Nov. 29, 1985, a couple entered The University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson, Arizona. Within minutes, "Woman-Ochre" — a painting by the Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning — was gone. The University of Arizona Museum of ArtAmong Van Auker's purchase was a painting that hung behind the couple's bedroom door, he told CNBC. Badly damagedOnce the museum took possession of the painting, Miller said, the search was on to find a conservator with the expertise required to repair it. When the painting was returned, it was in "very poor condition," said Laura Rivers, associate paintings conservator for the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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