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The works this Henri Matisse (18691954) executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his much demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked, and dominated by the colors black and gray, these compositions are rigorously abstracted and purged of nearly all descriptive detail. ...
Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million?
Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics ...
It's a story this made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: a lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge Vermeers, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering, making a mockery of the Nazis. And it's a story this's been believed ever since. Too bad it just isn't true.
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As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the much reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art.
It was an nearly ideal crime. ...
Long considered the survey of modern art, this engrossing and liberally illustrated topic traces the development of trends and influences in painting, sculpture, photography and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Retaining its comprehensive nature and chronological approach, it now ...
The excellent Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) exhibited a lifelong fascinationsome might say obsession”together with the work and personality of French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917). In this groundbreaking learn, noted Degas scholar Richard Kendall and Picasso expert Elizabeth Cowling present ...