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Eqypt Wants Its Van Gogh Back

August 27, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Van Gogh’s “Poppy Flower” painting was stolen for the second time last weekend and was the subject of several mixed reports that it had been recovered at the airport from foreigners trying to flee the country. Apparently the work is still missing because a prominent Egyptian is offering a sizable reward. Here’s Reuters on the continuing–and confusing–saga:

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has offered a 1-million Egyptian pound ($175,300) reward for information leading to the recovery of a stolen Van Gogh painting, television reported on Wednesday.Continue Reading

Egyptian Culture Minister Detained

August 23, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Bloomberg reports this piece of information in the growing complexity of the Egyptian van Gogh theft:

Egypt’s public prosecutor has ordered that a culture ministry official be jailed for four days as part of an investigation into the theft of a $55 million Van Gogh painting, the state-run Middle East News Agency reported today, without saying how it obtained the information.

Egypt to Jail Culture Ministry Official in Van Gogh Theft Probe (Bloomberg)

Van Gogh Un-Wanted for $25m

June 12, 2010 by Marion Maneker

[intro]Now Available at Half Price . . . Maybe[/intro]

The eagle-eyed Georgina Adam picked up on this consignor’s move. Not only was this Van Gogh at TEFAF, it was shown at Palm Beach and surely shopped to a number of different potential buyers. In a few week or so, we’ll know better whether it can attract buyers at a greatly reduced auction estimate:

Among Christie’s stars for its June sale is the beautiful “Parc de l’hôpital Saint-Paul” (1889) by Van Gogh, a view of the artist’s asylum in St Rémy-de-Provence. But the painting, for all its charm, has had its price trimmed since it was featured – with its own booklet – at the Maastricht European Fine Art Fair last year. Then it was on Dickinson’s stand, priced at $25m (£15m at that time), coming from a private Swiss collection. “We did have interest,” says James Roundell of the dealership, “but we weren’t able to conclude a sale at the time.” Now, in Christie’s sale, its estimate is a more sober £8m-£12m.

The Art Market: Basel–and Some London Blockbusters (Financial Times)

The Man Behind the van Gogh

February 25, 2010 by Marion Maneker

The Washington Post tells the poignant story behind the van Gogh recently authenticated and the collector who cried Vermeer too many times to be taken seriously on the one painting he was absolutely right about:

Hannema became director of the respected Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam in 1921 at age 26. Born to a wealthy art-collecting family, he was talented, successful, good looking and supremely confident in his judgment of art, said Ralph Keuning, the director of Museum de Fundatie.

During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands he was given responsibility for all the museums in the country. After the war in 1945 he was arrested and stood trial for collaboration, but he was never convicted and was released from internment two years later.Continue Reading

A New van Gogh

February 24, 2010 by Marion Maneker

According to DutchNews.nl, the Volksrant has a story identifying a painting now in the Zwolle museum as van Gogh. The owner had previously been reluctant to declare the 1886 work a van Gogh because he had mis-identified a forgery as a real Vermeer in the past:Continue Reading

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