Who's who of French artists in focus as a major private art collection goes on show in Berlin
Read full article: Who's who of French artists in focus as a major private art collection goes on show in BerlinA major German private art collection accumulated over four generations is going on large-scale show for the first time in Berlin.
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Banksy artwork sells for almost $10 million at auction
Read full article: Banksy artwork sells for almost $10 million at auctionA member of staff poses in front of a work of art by Banksy entitled 'Show Me The Monet" at Sotheby's auction house in London, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. Banksys Show Me the Monet playful take on a famous Impressionist painting has sold to an unidentified bidder at auction on Wednesday evening Oct. 21, 2020, for 7.6 million pounds (US dollars 9.8 million). (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)LONDON – Banksy’s playful take on a famous Impressionist painting has sold at auction for 7.6 million pounds ($9.8 million), the second-highest price ever paid for a work by the British street artist. In the 2005 work, Banksy added abandoned shopping carts and an orange traffic cone to Claude Monet’s image of water lilies in his garden at Giverny. Another Banksy work, “Devolved Parliament,” sold last year at Sotheby’s in London for 9.9 million pounds.
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