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Once-in-a-Lifetime Piero di Cosimo Retrospective Premieres at National Gallery of Art, Washington, February 1–May 3, 2015; Travels to Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, June 23–September 27, 2015 Piero di Cosimo The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot , c. 1489/1490 oil on panel, 184.2 x 188.6 cm (72 1/2 x 74 1/4 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection The first major retrospective exhibition ever presented of paintings by the imaginative Italian Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) will premiere at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from February 1 through May 3, 2015. Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence will showcase some 44 of the artist's most compelling works. With themes ranging from the pagan to the divine, the works include loans from churches in Italy and one of his greatest masterpieces, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Elizabeth of Hungary, Catherine of Alexandr...

February 25 through May 17, 2015 Cervantes’s Don Quixote is considered by many to be among the greatest works of fiction ever written. From the publication in 1605 of the first of two volumes (the second followed ten years later, exactly 400 years ago), the novel enjoyed immense popularity. Reprints and translations spread across Europe, with the adventures of the knight Don Quixote and his companion, Sancho Panza, captivating the continental imagination and influencing both the performing and visual arts. Coypel’s Don Quixote Tapestries: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France is devoted to a series of tapestries by Charles Coypel (1694−1752), painter to Louis XV, which illustrates twenty-eight of the novel’s most celebrated episodes and woven at the Gobelins Manufactory in Paris. The exhibition includes three Gobelins tapestry panels from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and two Flemish tapestries inspired by Coypel from The Frick Collection, w...

On 3 February 2015, Sotheby’s London will present masterworks of Surrealist Art in a dedicated Evening sale which will stand alongside the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale. The market for Surrealist Art has continued to grow from strength to strength in recent years, with new benchmarks set in the field at Sotheby’s each season, including the highest price at auction for any work by Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró , René Magritte and Francis Picabia.  James Mackie, Sotheby’s Senior Director, Impressionist & Modern Art, said: “This year’s dedicated Surrealist sale offers an extremely rich and broad range of works by the key names of the Surrealist art movement. The outstanding works, many of which are fresh to the market having remained in private collections for decades, have each been selected to represent the artists at their best.”  René Magritte L’explication oil on canvas 80 by 60cm, 31 1/2 by 23 5/8in. Painted in 1952 Estimate: £4 - 6 million Impor...

  Christie’s   2014 GUY CARLETON WIGGINS (1883-1962) WINTER IN NEW YORK PR.$43,750 
 GUY CARLETON WIGGINS (1883-1962) AT THE LIBRARY, WINTER PR.$93,750 Christie’s  2013 GUY WIGGINS (1883-1962) EAST RIVER HARMONY PR.$105,750 GUY WIGGINS (1883-1962) MIDTOWN, WINTER PR.$72,500 
 GUY WIGGINS (1883-1962) MORNING ON THE EAST RIVER PR.$137,000 GUY WIGGINS (1883-1962) WALL ST., WINTER PR.$191,000 GUY WIGGINS (1883-1962) BROAD AND WALL STREETS, IN WINTER PR.$125,000 
 Christie’s   2012 GUY CARLETON WIGGINS (1883-1962) TRINITY CHURCH, WALL STREET PR.$37,500 
 GUY CARLETON WIGGINS (1883-1962) FIFTH AVENUE IN WARTIME PR.$194,500 
 GUY CARLETON WIGGINS (1883-1962) LOOKING DOWN FIFTH AVENUE, WINTER, NEW PR.$86,500 GUY CARLETON WIGGINS (1883-1962) ON POTTER'S WHARF PR.$92,500 GUY CARLETON WIGGINS (1883-1962) WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY- WALL STREET WINTER PR.$206,500 Guy Wiggins (1883-1962) Sprin...