BRUSSELS (AP) — For four centuries, the opulent, exuberant nudes of Peter Paul Rubens have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure. And now, even in 2018, his Baroque paintings are still jolting the internet.
ALAMEDA, Calif. – Michaan’s Aug. 11 Gallery Auction promises many special opportunities for the company’s ever-expanding worldwide base of collectors. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) – A valuable painting that hung unnoticed in a Massachusetts school for decades is returning to town after 11 years in storage and following a fight over whether to sell it or keep it.
The Sun Chronicle reports the piece by Russian artist Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938), titled, Afghans, will be returned to North Attleborough on Tuesday and displayed in the police station lobby.
The painting was donated to the town in 1951 and hung in a school until 2007 when a resident brought its value to the attention of officials.
The town wanted to sell it and use the money to fund art education. It could have fetched as much as $2 million at auction.
A relative of the donors objected, saying the painting was a gift meant to be enjoyed.
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NEW YORK (AP) – For decades, a burning question loomed over a towering 20th-century book: The Autobiography of Malcolm X: What happened to the reputedly missing chapters that may have contained some of the most explosive thoughts of the African-American firebrand assassinated in 1965?