The Royal Collection: bloody secrets of a masterpiece

Friday, 7 November 2008, 19:23 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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This Bruegel painting is the highlight of a stupendous new show of works from the Royal Collection. Richard Dorment traces its astonishing history
When is a painting finished? Is it the moment when the artist lays down his or her brush? Or when the canvas is signed? Or do great pictures, as I believe, have a [...]

£800k painting goes under the hammer

Friday, 7 November 2008, 9:22 | Category : Oil Paintings Information
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AN OIL painting by a Falmouth artist which was sold for just £14.70 in the mid 1920s is up for sale again and is expected to fetch up to £800,000.
And if the picture, entitled No Walk Today, does sell for that sum at Sotheby’s in London on November 19, it will easily set a new [...]

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