Picasso’s Sleeping Mistress, German Art Add $99 Million to London Auctions

A Pablo Picasso painting of his mistress Marie-Therese Walters and a collection of German art from 1960's to 1970's may add as much as 60 million pounds ($99 million) to London's June Art Auction.

Picasso's Canvas "June fille endormie", Showing Marie-Therese Walters snoozing on her folded arms, is estimated to fetch 9 million pounds at Christies International. The Group of 59 German contemporary works has an upper estimate of 47.5 million pounds at Southey's.

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Two Girls Reading by PA Renoir

LACMA's Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Two Girls Reading Oil on canvas

Exhibition

A Renoir Legacy
A Great-Grandson's Homage to the Impressionist Master
Opening May 6th

Luncheon of the Boating Party

Renoir at the Tennessee State Museum

Renoir will paint on the Via Rodeo May 7th

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Norton Simon Museum - Event - Ancient Forms, Modern Copies: The Limits of Connoisseurship

Norton Simon Museum - Event - Ancient Forms, Modern Copies: The Limits of Connoisseurship
Ancient Forms, Modern Copies: The Limits of Connoisseurship

April 23rd 2011
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Lecture
Norton Simon Museum

Museums, Art historians and collectors are forever dealing with the problem of modern copies of ancient works of art. Such Copies, once displayed and published as authentic then become standards by which other objects are judged and thereby risk gravely misrepresenting the art-historical record. This illustrated lecture focuses on the complex issue of forgeries by examining workshops in India and Southeast Asia that produce artworks in 'ancient styles'.

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Photos of Alex Renoir

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