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Egon Schiele’s Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, 1917. A 1917 drawing by Egon Schiele is at the center of a restitution case that will soon head to court in New York. The work in question, Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (1917), depicts Edith Schiele with her hands folded in her lap. The drawing was made …
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Exterior view of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Courtesy flickr Editorial/Getty Images A Turkish judge cleared the American Museum of Natural History curator who was arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle spider and scorpion samples from Istanbul. He was released from custody after spending a night in jail. “I was completely …
Vincent Namatjira with various portraits by him, including one of Gina Rinehart, third from left in the bottom row. ©Vincent Namatjira/Copyright Agency/Photo Iwantja Arts/Courtesy the artist and Iwantja Arts Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia, has reportedly called on Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia to take down a painting of her by Aboriginal artist …
The structure may have served as a tomb entrance.
The show, originally scheduled to open in May, has been postponed to November.
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The agreement was signed by museum director Max Hollein and Thailand’s director general Phnombootra Chandrajoti.
When the war ended, the family and heirs appealed to the German and Austrian governments for the painting’s return, with no luck.
If it sells for its estimate of $600,000, it will become the most expensive piece of ephemera related to the series ever auctioned.
