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Sotheby’s is auctioning the Blaquier-Arrieta collection, featuring works by Monet, Van Gogh, and Cézanne

On November 18, 2026, in New York,Sotheby’s will present the Blaquier-Arrieta Collection, a collection of works that traces some of the key milestones in the emergenceof modern art,from Impressionism in the 1870s to the innovations of Post-Impr...
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Bellotto: A Rediscovered View of Vienna’s Karlskirche Is Up for Auction at Dorotheum

A previously unknown and recently rediscovered view of Vienna’s Karlskirche will be offered at the Dorotheum’s “Antique Paintings” auction on October 21, 2026. The work has been authenticated as entirely by the hand of Bernardo Bellotto, ...
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Stanley Moss, the American art dealer and poet who sold a Piero della Francesca to the Louvre

Anyone who happened to be on Madison Avenue in New York in early February of this year certainly couldn’t have failed to notice the gleaming Breuer Building, which had just been restored and recently reopened to house the new global headquarter...
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Pandolfini kicks off the fall season with two auctions dedicated to the great masters

Pandolfini’s fall season opens on October 1 in Florence with the customary two-part session dedicated to Old Master Paintings and works of exceptional historical and artistic interest. The date coincides with the Biennale dell’Antiquariat...
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A Kandinsky masterpiece is set to go up for auction at Christie’s after being returned to the heirs

“Das bunte Leben” by Wassily Kandinsky ( Moscow, 1866 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944), painted in 1907, will be one of the key works offered by Christie’s during Frieze Week in London. The canvas, measuring a monumental 130 × 163 centim...
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One of Mondrian's most important works is up for auction at Christie's: estimated at 30 million pounds

One of the highlights of the London auctions during Frieze Week 2026 will be Piet Mondrian’s *Composition III*, a 1920 masterpiece that Christie’s will present at its *20/21 Century: London Evening Sale* on October 14. The work, estimated...
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Catawiki Expands Its Art Auctions: The Classical Art Department Is Launched

Catawiki is expanding its offerings in the art collecting sector with the launch of its new Classical Art department, presented as part of the “Great Masters from Classic to Contemporary Art” auction, scheduled to take place online from July 24 to Au...
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Sotheby's sells the Lewis Collection, the most valuable private collection ever auctioned in Europe

During the summer of 2026, auction house Sotheby's will unveil the Lewis Collection, a collection of modern artworks in London estimated to total about 200 million pounds, or about 231 million euros. It is the most valuable collection by a single pri...
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