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From Mud Into Immortality

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us2.campaign-archive2.com Upon his return from military service in Europe in 1919, Henry Varnum Poor settled in an artists’ community in New City, New York where he purchased land and began single-handedly building a home called Crow House, named after the local birds who kept him company while he worked. As a struggling pai...

Take a Look Inside Leonardo DiCaprio's Growing Art Collection

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news.artnet.com One of Leonardo DiCaprio's first important purchases was a Jean-Michel Basquiat drawing. Take a look at some of the work he's collected over the years.

Gauguin Painting Is Said to Fetch Nearly $300 Million

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mobile.nytimes.com The sale of an 1892 Gauguin oil painting, “Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?),” was confirmed by the seller, Rudolf Staechelin.

Picasso’s Granddaughter Plans to Sell Art, Worrying the Market

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nyti.ms A decision by a granddaughter of Picasso to sell many of his works privately has led to speculation that she could flood the market and depress prices.

Arrive - September/October 2014

Mika Gallery in this months Arrive Magazine

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Francis Sydney Muschamp, 1871
Luminous Landscape with Cattle, oil on canvas
Signed / dated 1871 lower left.
Measures 17 x 21 in. and 25 1/2 x 29 1/4 in.

Condition: Excellent.

Provenance: Bedford Hills, New York Estate
Feel free to email with questions

American School, Early 20th Century
Portrait of a Woman, oil on canvas, circa 1930s

Unsigned, in Ashcan style, with label on verso reading Maria Antoville Galleries, Corp. 721 Madison Avenue New York, with heavy gilt wood frame.

Measures 26 x 30 in. and 36 x 41 in.

Condition: Very good, minor craquelure, would benefit from a light cleaning.

Provenance: Mahwah, New Jersey Estate.
Fell free to contact us with questions

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1951 Richard Ericson New York School Avant-Garde Etching. A fine etching which is bright, unfaded with fine detail, superb inking and plate tone in black ink. The image measures 5" x 6 1/2" withina fine but evident plate mark and impression on a wove paper, sheet size of 53/4" x 7 3/4". Signed and dated bottom right. Unframed and unmounted, thecondition of the image is excellent. Offered by Mika Gallery.

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Edward Hopper Draws More Crowds than Picasso in Paris

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artfixdaily.com Organizers of a major Edward Hopper retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris say that the exhibition brought in more visitors than a prime Picasso collection. In less than four months, 784,269 visitors took in the American realist's works, just slightly outnumbering the crowds for "Picasso and…

"The Teeming Operation" 1940. WPA watercolor on illustration board. Unsigned. This operation involves the pouring of steel from a hot metal ladle (in this case suspended by an overhead crane- via the pictured "J" hooks) into ingot moulds which are set up on spru plates and placed on mould cars or "buggies".
Price: Contact Gallery

"Departure From The Steel Plant " Impressive 1940 WPA watercolor on illustration board painting. Unsigned. Depicts a rail flagman and locomotive train which are both dwarfed by the idealized / enormous steel factory. Brooklyn, New York Label on verso.
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Van Gogh painting stolen in Cairo

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bbc.co.uk A 'priceless' work by Vincent Van Gogh has disappeared from a Cairo museum, Egypt's culture minister says.

When art collecting can mean big money

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bbc.co.uk The BBC looks at the growing popularity of art as an investment in Hong Kong

Woman 'hits Renoir jackpot'

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bbc.co.uk A woman in Virginia, US, may have hit the jackpot after discovering what is thought to be an original Renoir painting at a flea market for $50 (£31).

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Sailboats off Palisades
Joseph Pollet
c. 1925
18 x 22
Price: Contact Gallery

Joseph Pollet was an important member of the Woodstock Art Colony. He emigrated to NYC in 1911 from Albbruck, Germany (born in 1897) and at age 21 had a promising career as an advertising copywriter. While working, he studied painting and his landscapes were immediately successful in NYC galleries. He studied at the Art Student's League with John Sloan, Robert Henri, and Homer Boss. From 1954-61, he lived in Paris and Italy. In 1971 , a fire destroyed 100-150 paintings of his paintings in his Greenwich Village studio.
Pollet exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery, Chicago Art Institue, Brooklyn Museum, Pennsylvania Academy, Los Angeles County Museum, and Carnegie International.

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Louis Wolchonok (1898 - 1973)
On The Porch
c. 1950
oil on canvas
30 x 40
Provenance: Estate of Louis Wolchonok
Price: Contact Gallery

Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art. He studied at the Cooper Union Art School, City College of New York, Julian Academy, Paris, and the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Art. He taught at the City College of New York, and the Craft Students League from the 1930s until the last year of his life, authoring three books on composition and design.

Authenticity of Trove of Po***cks and Rothkos Goes to Court

nytimes.com An obscure art dealer kept showing up with paintings by Po***ck, Rothko and Motherwell. Where did they all come from?

Experts Uncover A Painting Van Gogh Covered Up : NPR

npr.org A work by Vincent Van Gogh was recently uncovered at a museum in the Netherlands. But it wasn't lost in some dusty corridor, it was hidden under the paint of another Van Gogh. Scientists found it by using a giant X-ray machine.