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Another stunning Claude Monet acquired for a breaking record: over $65 million. “Water Lilies” from 1914-17.

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A 20 minute mini documentary about the stolen art from Nazi, pre and after the second world war. Focus on Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and more. There is also a great website with the most wanted stolen art by the right heirs. Great watch: https://youtu.be/M4IUt7QZh6U.

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Totally in love with Milos Zlatanovic works! 😍

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La sortie de la messe, à Rouen. Léon-Jules Lemaître (1850-1905), no date. This oil on panel was recently sold at Bonhams for less than $10k.

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Another performance art. 👏 👏 👏

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the cost of inscribing... 🤯 🤯 🤯

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Happy #monochrome-monday! Banana Cone, circa 1973, by William J. Kolomyjec, aka Dr. Bill. I love this work because of its iconic aesthetic and concept. Linear interpolation was and still is a cool algo, used back in the late 60/early 70s while coding in FORTRAN. And it is still relevant nowadays with genAI. I couldn't be more proud for have facilitated Dr. Bill to inscribe this beauty onto the Bitcoin blockchain. You can check the original JavaScript conversion by Dr. Bill: he digitalised both the banana and the cone in 99 dots each. It's also a fascinating story, I couldn't recommend more to read more about this work and its artist. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. 😊 #mono

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Sans titre (L'oiseau mort). Rene Magritte, circa 1926-27. Coming up for auction at Christie's, Estimate between USD 500,000 – USD 700,000.

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La Mémoire. Rene Magritte, 1945. Part of the Mica Ertegun collection, going up for auction at Christie's. This work has a whopping 3 to 5 USD million estimate! 11 days to go...

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I have just collected "Brush Girl" by Mario Klingemann on @objktcom

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L'empire des lumières. Rene Magritte, 1954. Coming in up for auction at Christie's in 12 days. No estimates.. 👀

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Wheatfield with Crows. Vincent van Gogh, July 1890. In the Vincent van Gogh Foundation permanent collection, co-owned by the State of the Netherlands and in permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994. Oil on canvas, 50.5 cm x 103 cm.

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A crossover with /newmasters: I couldn't recommend more to subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsX9k_cIlPc. The video is featuring the upcoming auctions for Magritte, Ruscha, and more! (the Cattalen's banana is a "bonus" 🍌 😅)

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Yōrō waterfall, Mino province. Katsushika Hokusai. Circa 1833, in the British Museum permanent collection and currently on sale as licensed NFT. Minted first in 2021, it's now available on primary (sold directly for the Museum) at 499€ in an edition of 41. In other words a fancy, pricey, tokenised souvenir minted on Ethereum. :)

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“Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half”. Ed Ruscha, 1964. Available at Christie's on November 19th. The auction's estimate is 50 million dollar! 😮

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Pablo Picasso, Femme couchée lisant, 1939. Oil on canvas, 96,5 x 130 cm. From the Musée national Picasso-Paris permanent collection, currently on loan (and on view) to Palazzo Te, Italy.

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Dame am Kamin (Lady at the Fireplace), 1897/1898. Gustav Klimt. Today I was quite (un)impressed by this amazing work visiting the Belvedere Museum. I wonder if it was the light in the room, or the glass protection, or perhaps due to its restoration (?), the colors weren't very bright. Excellent one nonetheless!

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Wisteria at Englefield, by Stanley Spencer. Painted in 1954, and just sold last night at Christie's, hammering a whopping GBP 1,371,000!

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The cups of discord. 2000 years old cups, made by masters of Greek Attic pottery. One (left) was returned by the Met to Italy in 2022. A second (right) was returned last year, but Italian officials agreed it could stay at the Met on loan. According to the NYTimes they were completely rassembled from fragments. 😅

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A stunning (unlisted) new work by my friend Adrian @pocobelli. Untitled. Love his dithering signature and, quite literally, his signature on the bottom right corner. That reflection on the ground behind the subject resembles the sunshines coming in from the window. That blue collar is pure poetry. Refreshing.

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