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  • Art Thief Blames Dutch Museum for ‘Negligence’

    10/25/2013 4:49:32 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    Arab News ^ | Tuesday 22 October 2013
    A Romanian man who has admitted stealing masterpieces by Gauguin, Monet and Picasso, wants to pin the blame on the Dutch museum for failing to protect the works, his lawyer said Tuesday. Radu Dogaru is among six Romanians on trial for the spectacular three-minute heist from the Kunthal museum in Rotterdam in October 2012 which stunned the art world. Despite their value, none of the paintings was equipped with an alarm, Dutch authorities have said.
  • Art Historians Claim Van Gogh's Ear 'Cut off By Gauguin'

    05/05/2009 5:16:51 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 7 replies · 491+ views
    The Guardian ^ | Monday 4 May 2009 | Angelique Chrisafis
    Vincent van Gogh's fame may owe as much to a legendary act of self-harm, as it does to his self-portraits. But, 119 years after his death, the tortured post-Impressionist's bloody ear is at the centre of a new controversy, after two historians suggested that the painter did not hack off his own lobe but was attacked by his friend, the French artist Paul Gauguin. According to official versions, the disturbed Dutch painter cut off his ear with a razor after a row with Gauguin in 1888. Bleeding heavily, Van Gogh then walked to a brothel and presented the severed ear...
  • ART Appreciation "class" #2 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

    06/01/2005 4:08:07 PM PDT · by Republicanprofessor · 79 replies · 8,175+ views
    6/1/05 | republicanprofessor
    I had such fun with my first Art Appreciation "class" last week. Thanks for all your support. For this second “class,” I’d like to discuss the basic ideas behind Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Please continue to post more images that appeal to you; it’s great to have a continuing dialogue. Let’s look at Impression: Sunrise by Claude Monet (1840-1926). This was done in 1874, and when it was exhibited, the slurred comments by a critic about it being only “an impression” gave the name Impressionism to the movement. Nowadays, however, we appreciate how it moves away from detailed realism to give...
  • Unseen Gauguin to Be Auctioned

    06/12/2003 12:21:45 PM PDT · by presidio9 · 12 replies · 257+ views
    Reuters ^ | Thu, Jun 12, 2003
    A painting by Paul Gauguin, unseen in public for over half a century, will be the star at an auction in London later this month of Impressionist and Modern Art. L'Apparition, a brooding study of a local magician and a nude, done the year before Gauguin died on the French Polynesian island of Hiva Oa in 1903 -- has been in private hands since it was last sold in 1944 in New York. If it fetches its presale estimate of up to $15 million at the June 23 sale, it will become the second most expensive painting by the French...
  • Paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh and Gauguin stolen in £1m raid on gallery

    04/27/2003 5:32:09 PM PDT · by FairOpinion · 37 replies · 368+ views
    UK Independent ^ | April 27, 2003 | Cahal Milmo
    Three paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh and Gauguin worth a total of £1m were stolen from a Manchester art gallery over the weekend in a "well planned" theft by professional art thieves, police said. Staff at the Whitworth Gallery only discovered the three works were missing when they turned up for work at about midday yesterday. The paintings are believed to have been in the same room at the museum, which has a world-renowned collection of 40,000 works by artists ranging from Lucian Freud to Toulouse Lautrec. Detectives said the thieves had broken into the building at some point after...