For Love of Art

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Art Institute of Chicago (which, btw, is the museum that own's Hopper's Nighthawks) just received two cash gifts totaling $70 million

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-art-institute-70-million-gift-0418-story.html

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David Rockefeller was the last living grandson of John D. Rockefeller, until he died last year at the age of 101. He and his wife Peggy, who died in 1996, were major art collectors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller

Their art collection is going on at auction now

Day 1

https://apnews.com/2e3674acdc0643e0b5435706e7fc6da0/First-night-of-Rockefeller-art-auction-fetches-$646M

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rockefeller-art-auction-christies-breaks-records-on-first-day/

Day 2

https://news.artnet.com/market/christies-rockefeller-art-of-the-americas-sale-takes-106-million-1282430

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Friday was the third and final day of the Rockefeller art sale. The sale totaled $832 million, and 22 records were set.
I'm surprised n_l didn't bid on the 256-piece Sevres dessert service commissioned by Napoleon.

https://apnews.com/d7a1a548ab994fd3a6ac95c0f4632ef6/22-world-records-set-at-Christie's-Rockefeller-auction

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/arts/design/it-didnt-hit-1-billion-but-rockefeller-sale-still-set-a-record.html

at that NY Times link, in the second photo, with people looking at the various paintings, the prominent painting on the right, the rocky landscape, is a Hopper painting called "Cape Ann Granite." It sold for over $8 million https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Paintings/edward-hopper-cape-ann-granite-6134503-details.aspx?lid=1&from=relatedlot&intobjectid=6134503

There was another Hopper painting sold at the auction, called "Rich's House" here is an article about it https://www.christies.com/features/Live-like-a-Rockefeller-Edward-Hopper-Richs-House-8856-1.aspx

It sold for over #3 million https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Paintings/edward-hopper-richs-house-6134497-details.aspx?lid=1&from=relatedlot&intobjectid=6134497

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Went to 3 Washington museums with Miss Korea; saw 6 Hoppers.

At the National Gallery of Art:
"Ground Swell" https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.131206.html
 "Cape Cod Evening" https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.61252.html

At the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
 "Ryder's House" https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/ryders-house-10763
"People in the Sun" https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/people-sun-10762

At The Phillips Collection:
"Approaching a City" https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/browse-the-collection?id=0923
"Sunday" https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/browse-the-collection?id=0925

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One of Claude Monet's haystacks paintings, called Mueles (1890), sold at auction last night for $110.7 million. Sotheby's says it's a world auction record for Monet and the first Impressionist artwork to ever cross the $100 million threshold at auction.

https://hamodia.com/2019/05/15/monet-haystack-painting-110-7m-auction/

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Museum's Rembrandt knockoff turns out to be the real thing

https://apnews.com/75d5d8e2c71bb83ab20e73128e20970e

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Raphael fever hits Italy but art isn?t immune from virus

https://apnews.com/649fab861ff9d0cccf1bda6dd14b1abd

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case involving the descendants of a group of Jewish art dealers from Germany who say their ancestors were forced to sell a collection of religious art to the Nazi government in 1935.


https://apnews.com/3fe60cf650bee8997d7f091fe2e8d84e

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BERLIN (AP) - German authorities have now handed over all 14 works from the art trove accumulated by late collector Cornelius Gurlitt that so far were proven to have been looted under Nazi rule, the government said Wednesday.

https://apnews.com/article/business-germany-cornelius-gurlitt-3835dc95c9024f0c01b97c72f9dec719

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case involving the descendants of a group of Jewish art dealers from Germany who say their ancestors were forced to sell a collection of religious art to the Nazi government in 1935.


https://apnews.com/3fe60cf650bee8997d7f091fe2e8d84e

Supreme Court sides with Germany in Nazi-era art dispute

https://apnews.com/article/business-us-supreme-court-lawsuits-courts-04734dea5cde6abc412da38d3ff7faa2

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the heirs of German citizens couldn't sue the German government in U.S. courts. It may be the correct ruling legally, but if the German government wanted to do the right thing, it would return the art. But who expects the German government to do the right thing?

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Supreme Court sides with Germany in Nazi-era art dispute

https://apnews.com/article/business-us-supreme-court-lawsuits-courts-04734dea5cde6abc412da38d3ff7faa2

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the heirs of German citizens couldn't sue the German government in U.S. courts.

Given that the decision was unanimous, it's clear the German heirs were seeking redress in an improper venue. The court merely asserted the obvious. Which means that headline is absolute horseshit. The court has sided with no one. What is it about journalists that makes me want to see them all whipped?

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Given that the decision was unanimous, it's clear the German heirs were seeking redress in an improper venue. The court merely asserted the obvious. Which means that headline is absolute horseshit. The court has sided with no one. What is it about journalists that makes me want to see them all whipped?

In the matter that was being disputed here, the Supreme Court did side with the German government.

The heirs argued that they could sue in U.S. court; the German gov't argued that they couldn't. The Supreme Court ruled for the German gov't in this issue. The appropriateness of the art sale was not the issue at hand. In the issue at hand, the court absolutely sided the German gov't. I see that as an accurate headline.

If the headline had said "U.S. Supreme Court Rules German Heirs Can't Bring Art Lawsuit Against German Government in U.S. Court," that would have been more detailed, but unnecessarily so. I think this headline is fine.

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Picasso work found in closet sells for $150,000

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox5ny.com/news/pablo-picasso-painting-that-spent-50-years-in-maine-closet-sells-for-150000.amp

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Nov. 16: https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=29213