□ Sunday, 14 Mar 2010

Blog follows restoration of Van Gogh artwork
A new blog will allow art lovers to follow the restoration, step by step, of Dutch post impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh's famous "The Bedroom", the Van Gogh Museum said Thursday. More...

$2.7 Billion Dutch Fair Lures Collectors as Confidence Rises
A record 263 dealers will offer paintings and other works worth $2.7 billion at the world’s largest art and antiques fair, anticipating the return of the billionaire big-spenders. More...

$150M Brody Collection Up For Auction
One of the most vaunted private art collections in Los Angeles, highlighted by a prized Picasso nude and including works by Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Georges Braque, Edgar Degas and Edouard Vuillard, is expected to fetch... More...

□ Wednesday, 10 Mar 2010

Has Caravaggio Dethroned Michelangelo?
ROME — By at least one amusing new metric, Michelangelo’s unofficial 500-year run at the top of the Italian art charts has ended. Caravaggio, who somehow found time to paint when he wasn’t brawling, scandalizing pooh-bahs, chasing... More...

□ Tuesday, 9 Mar 2010

Sotheby's to Sell Single-Owner Collection of British Watercolours and Drawings
Sotheby's announced that on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, it will present for sale, in its New Bond Street galleries in London, An Exceptional Eye: A Private British Collection. More...

Christie's to Sell the Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody
Christie's announced the sale of one of the greatest private American collections of Modern Art to come to auction: The Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody. More...

□ Monday, 8 Mar 2010

Michelangelo letters up for grabs as Renaissance archive goes up for sale
Government in Rome fights to keep Giorgio Vasari archive leaving Tuscany after purchase by mystery Russian More...

□ Sunday, 7 Mar 2010

Christie's to Offer 500 Years of Printmaking this March
This March Christie’s presents the first of its bi-annual auctions of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints. More...

□ Friday, 5 Mar 2010

Christie's to Offer Monumental Masterpiece by Yves Klein in New York in May
Christie’s will offer a large-scale masterpiece by Yves Klein at the auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York on the evening of 11 May 2010. ANT 93, Le Buffle (“The Buffalo”), 1960-61, is a monumental work from the artist’s celebrated Anthropométrie series that stands over 9 feet wide... More...

□ Thursday, 4 Mar 2010

Sotheby's will Exhibit Highlights from Forthcoming Sales of Russian Art in Paris
To coincide with the 2010 ‘L’année de la Russie en France’, Sotheby’s announced that it will exhibit important works from its forthcoming sales of Russian Art in New York (April 2010) and London (June 2010) at its Paris Saleroom from March 4th to March 9th, 2010. More...