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Scott Reyburn

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Entertainment
6 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — The marquee auctions of impressionist, modern and contemporary art in New York next week are the first crunch moment of the year for the top end of the art market.
Entertainment
16 May 2019
NEW YORK — A shiny stainless steel sculpture created by Jeff Koons in 1986, inspired by a child’s inflatable toy, sold at Christie’s on Wednesday night for $91.1 million with fees, smashing the record at auction for a work by a living artist, set just last November by David Hockney.
Koons sculpture smashes record for work by a living artist
Entertainment
16 May 2019
NEW YORK — A shiny stainless steel sculpture created by Jeff Koons in 1986, inspired by a child’s inflatable toy, sold at Christie’s on Wednesday night for $91.1 million with fees, smashing the record at auction for a work by a living artist, set just last November by David Hockney.
Koons work sets mark with $91.1 million sale
Entertainment
15 May 2019
NEW YORK — After eight minutes of heated competition, Claude Monet’s 1890 painting “Meules” sold for $110.7 million on Tuesday, an auction high for the artist and the most ever for any Impressionist work, according to Sotheby’s in New York, which handled the sale.
Record set for impressionists by $110.7 million for a Monet
Entertainment
7 May 2019
TURIN, Italy — The room is lined with dark red paneling and gold-framed mirrors. The 18th-century Italian furniture is opulently rococo. A sentimental late Renoir painting, “Young Woman with Roses,” hangs in front of shelves filled with finely bound bibliographical volumes. There are gilded knickknacks everywhere.
The Secret Art Collection of a Reclusive Italian Tycoon Is Unveiled
Entertainment
6 Feb 2019
The subject of a 2014 movie and a fair amount of inconclusive scholarly research, his miserable six-year marriage with a woman almost a decade his junior was annulled in 1854 on the grounds of Ruskin’s “incurable impotency.”
The subject of a 2014 movie and a fair amount of inconclusive scholarly research, his miserable six-year marriage with a woman almost a decade his junior was annulled in 1854 on the grounds of Ruskin’s “incurable impotency.”
Entertainment
30 Jan 2019
Schoffel, a dealer based in Brussels, who has been trading in tribal art for 11 years, had just completed negotiations over a cellphone with a French collector during the Friday preview of the Brafa art fair.
It's over, lessons learned
Entertainment
10 Jan 2019
This is the realm of “vernacular photography,” the catchall term for snapshots that amateurs have been taking since 1888, when George Eastman introduced the first hand-held Kodak camera, priced at $25 (about $600 today).
Finding New Value in the Work of Anonymous Shutterbugs