Nazi Looted Art, a Surprising Chinese Vase and More Fresh News
News and updates from around the arts and auction community:
- In a gesture that should be a good example to others, the son of a Nazi official has returned three artworks that his family had looted from the southern Polish city of Krakow during World War II. [Read more from CBS News]
- A Chinese vase has sold for 450 times its estimate after auctioneers mistook it for a copy until savvy bidders realized it was actually a 500-year-old valuable antique. [Read more from The Telegraph]
- A Francis Bacon triptych is expected to fetch up to $70 million at auction. Three Studies For A Portrait Of George Dyer, which was once owned by the celebrated author Roald Dahl, will be offered at Christie’s Post War and Contemporary Art sale in New York on May 17. [Read more from the North-West Evening Mail]
- Spider-Man burst into comics in Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962). A near-mint copy of that landmark comic book featuring Spider-Man on the cover has sold for $454,100. [Read more from boingboing]
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