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Dolnick's book The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (2005)—an account of the 1994 theft, and eventual recovery, of Edvard Munch's The Scream from Norway's National Gallery in Oslo—won the 2006 Edgar Award in the Best Crime Fact category. His 2008 book, The Forger's Spell, describes the 1930 ...
In his 2023 book Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground, RPG historian Stu Horvath examined the 1986 fantasy role-playing game Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and noted, "The [game's] art does quite a bit of world building. John Sibbick's iconic cover sets the stage well, with a double dose of mohawks telegraphing a certain amount of 'in-your ...
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [2]
Beyeler died on 25 February 2010, at his home near Basel. [5] He had no children. [5]In their obituaries of Beyeler, The New York Times called him "Europe's pre-eminent dealer in modern art", [2] and The Daily Telegraph described him as "the greatest art dealer since the war", who "assembled one of the world's most impressive collections of 20th-century paintings."
A newly discovered drawing was sold for US$11.65m at Sotheby's, New York in 2020. It was the most expensive Old Master drawing sold in the United States. The drawing, before it was reattributed to the Italian Renaissance master, first appeared in a small auction in Germany and sold for less than US$1,000.
The art of Oceania is the last great tradition of art to be appreciated by the world at large. Despite being one of the longest continuous traditions of art in the world, dating back at least fifty millennia, it remained relatively unknown until the second half of the 20th century.
Hashime Murayama was born in Japan in 1879, and graduated in 1905 from the Kyoto Imperial Art Industry College. He came to the United States the following year. In 1910 his teacher’s daughter, Nao Makino, joined him, and they were married in New York City.
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