News and updates from around the arts and auction community:
- An Asian investor has paid the equivalent of $18 million dollars for a rare vivid-pink diamond at Christie’s Geneva. The 9.14-carat jewel showed that the market for colored diamonds continues to intensify. [Read more from CNBC]
- Following its debut in the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, “Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence” will open at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, on February 5. It’s the first major American exhibition dedicated to works by three generations of the Della Robbia family and their competitors. [Read more from the National Gallery of Art]
- David Hockney’s 10.5ft-wide landscape titled Woldgate Woods, 24, 25, 26 October, 2006 has sold in London for $11.7 million. The work has set a new auction record for the artist who once turned down the chance to paint a portrait of Queen Elizabeth because he was “too busy.” [Read more from BBC News]
- Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor nearly 75 years ago, Japanese citizens and American citizens of Japanese heritage living in the western states were sent to internment camps. The Noguchi Museum will launch an exhibition on January 18 titled “Self-interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center,” based on the experiences of renowned artist and designer Isamu Noguchi. [Read more from The Noguchi Museum]
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