From the Smithsonian: The artwork that took 30 years and 200 acres to create

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  Milligan’s Reply

  March 23, 2022 · 1 min read

  After Spike Milligan published “Monty,” the third installment of his memoirs, a reader wrote to praise the book, but added that he was bothered by a reference Milligan made about “cowardice in the face of the…

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  Another Auction, Another Record Sale

  March 7, 2023 · 1 min read

  Sotheby’s London sold a Wassily Kandinsky painting for a record-breaking $45 million on March 1. The 1910 landscape was recently given to the 13 heirs of a German Jewish businessman persecuted by the Nazis…

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  Benjamin Cañas's Japanese-Inspired Surrealist Masterpiece Joins Collection

  April 11, 2022 · 1 min read

  We just purchased this 20x24 painting by the surrealist Salvadoran artist Benjamin Cañas (1933-1987). “The War Lord” was commissioned by clients for their Japanese style home. It spurred Cañas to study…

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  When You Can’t Sell a Stolen Work of Art

  July 26, 2022 · 1 min read

  A Dutch historian known as the “Indiana Jones of Art” recovered ancient Catholic relics when the pieces were left on his doorstep a few weeks ago. The relics were stolen in early June from the Fécamp Abbey…

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  Sometimes You Get It Right…

  July 22, 2022 · 2 min read

  And When You Do, Why Not Crow About It?! I bought this painting 30 years ago in a yard sale from a neighbor, who was Pakistani, as he was leaving the housing development we lived in then. I didn’t know the…

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