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by Jean-Louis De La Vaissiere PARIS (AFP) .- A French journalist s investigation into the alleged forgery network around art collector Giuliano Ruffini has also criticised the great negligence of art world experts. The doubts first became public when French police seized a painting owned by the prince of Liechtenstein from an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence in 2016. The prince had paid seven million euros at auction for the portrait of the goddess Venus by 16th century Italian painter Lucas Cranach, yet tests would soon reveal that the pigments used in the painting dated from the 20th century. Ruffini was well-known in the art world. Since the 1990s, he had sold dozens even hundreds of paintings by such luminaries as Parmigianino and El Greco to some of the great museums of Europe, including the Louvre, often through intermediaries. Many, he said, had come from the collection of an ex-girlfriend s father, Andre Borie ....
Seattle DJC.com local business news and data - Weekend - Exceptional 20th century art collection donated to SAM djc.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from djc.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Art Industry News: Damien Hirst Declares 'I Love the Crypto World' and Offers to Sell His Artworks for Robo-Money + Other Stories artnet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artnet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Game changers : Seattle Art Museum receives gift of 19 artworks, worth approximately $400 million Sign In FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Lee Krasner (1908-1984), Night Watch, 1960, Oil on canvas, 70 x 99 in.Friday FoundationShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Philip Guston (1913-1980), The Painter, 1976, Oil on canvas, 74 x 116 in.Friday FoundationShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6 Number 2, 1949 medium oil on canvas. Dimensions 91 3/4 x 68 7/8in. (233 x 174.9cm), 1949. By Clyfford Still. (From Jane Lang Davis) Show MoreShow Less 5of6 People walk by the Hammering Man in the snow outside the Seattle Art Museum on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012.(Photo by Lindsey Wasson)LINDSEY WASSON/seattlepi.com file photoShow MoreShow Less 6of6 The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) received a major gift on Thursday: a charitable donation of 19 exceptional pieces of artwork from the Friday Foundation which celebrates the legacy of local collectors Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis ....