The National Gallery of Art has acquired one of fewer than a dozen known still lifes painted in the late 1840s by African American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872). Classically composed, Still Life with Fruit and Nuts (1848) depicts fruit arranged in a tabletop pyramid in which the smooth surfaces of beautifully rendered fruit contrast … Continue reading Rare Still Life by Duncanson Enters Collection of National Gallery of Art
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Different Wyeth, Different Ending
On the morning of Dec 2, 2009, three generations of Wyeth paintings were auctioned in the Christie's Important American Painting and Sculpture Sale. A large egg-tempera on panel by Andrew Wyeth Above the Narrow was the top lot of the sale. When the auctioneer hammered down the price of 6.1 million dollars given by a … Continue reading Different Wyeth, Different Ending
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