Archive for November, 2017

Leonardo's Salvator Mundi just set a new world record for a painting costing its new owner an astonishing US$450,000,000.

Alchemy as Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi sells for an astonishing US$450m

Nov 18th, 2017 | By

It is official, the young hot shots in Christie’s contemporary art department are marketing geniuses and in the art world is now operating in the post-truth era. Post-truth follows post-idea, a theory popular in liberal circles in the US that big ideas are no longer sought after and have become elusive. Ideas seem smaller, not
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Vladimir Nekrasov, second from right, feeling the pain of losing his Korzhev's. Zelfira Tregulova, on the right, director of the Tretakov Gallery, Valdimir Medinsky on the left, Russian Minister of Culture and Yevgeny Gerasimov of the Duma (second left) receiving the Korzhevs at the Tretyakov as part of the annual Art Night Festival.

Tretyakov receives gift of Vladimir Nekrasov’s Korzhevs

Nov 10th, 2017 | By

The Tretyakov and Russian Ministry of Culture have announced they have received a precious gift of 32 paintings and two graphic works by Geli Korzhev from the collector and businessman, Vladimir Nekrasov. Geli Mikhailovic Korzhev (July 7th 1925 – August 27th 2012) was one of the most prominent of the Russian post-war artists and a
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