Mar 26, 2013 Picasso’s painting Le Rêve (The Dream) was sold this date for $155M by Steve Wynn (casino guy) to Stephen Cohen (hedge fund guy.) This despite the fact that Wynn had managed to jam his elbow through it, costing him $90,000 in repairs and $54M in estimated loss in…
Mar 19, 1997 Willem de Kooning died this date aged 92, in East Hampton, NY. de Kooning was an Abstract Expressionist, in the same school as Jackson…
Mar 12, 1930 Weber, Klee, Lehmbruck, Maillol opened at the MoMA. This was only the 4th exhibition ever for the museum, and featured two painters (Weber…
March 5, 1970 Japanese painter Shima Seien dies at around age 78. Initially self-taught, she later studied painting formally. She is associated with…
Mar 4, 1886 Margrethe Mather, née Emma Caroline Youngreen born this date, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She moved west and met Edward Weston. They…
Feb 26, 1958 Yokoyama Taikan died, aged 89 in Tokyo. He helped develop the modernized “Japanese style” of painting, Nihonga. While hewing to the general…
Feb 19, 2006 Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul, the first full Munch retrospective opened this date at the MoMA. This was accompanied by a film…
Feb 12, 1994 Stolen from National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo on this date, a version of Edvard Munch’s painting, The Scream. It was…
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