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The IPKat
[Guest post] A €50 million Monet: Public domain, private property, and the hidden IP in an art auction
The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest post by Katfriend Monica Ezsias, discussing relevant copyright issues facing a public domain artwork like the recently auctioned…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Selling the Picasso and the Teaspoons—the Auction House Booming on Sales Below $1 Million
Bonhams has been acquiring regional auction houses like Bukowskis in Stockholm, Bruun Rasmussen in Copenhagen, Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris, and Skinner in Boston to capitalize on this core…
Art Law Perspectives
Claude Monet’s Haystacks Painting Breaks Records at Auction & More Art World Headlines
By Jana Farmer
UNITED STATES Claude Monet’s Haystacks Painting Sets a New World Record for the First Impressionist Work to Sell for More than $100 Million at Auction The Meules (Haystacks) painting (1890), part of…
Other
Fall Auction Of American Works From Highly Acclaimed Barney Ebsworth Collection Fetches $317.8 Million
In recent art world news, as an update to our recent post on the fall sale of American works from the $300 million Barney Ebsworth collection, the highly anticipated sale…
Archer Estate & Trust Litigation Law
Rockefeller Treasures Set New World Record For Single-Owner Auction
05.16.2018Rockefeller Treasures Set New World Record For Single-Owner Auction Peggy and David Rockefeller’s artworks and treasures set a new world record topping $800 million as the priciest ever single-owner collection. …
Business and Commercial
Léger Work Estimated To Sell For $65 M And Set New Record For The Artist To Lead Christie’s Impressionist And Modern Art Auction This Fall
In recent art world news, a never before auctioned work, Contraste de forms (1913), by French artist Fernand Léger is to lead Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction in…
Business and Commercial
No Buyer For High Profile Francis Bacon Painting At Christie’s $130 Million Contemporary Art Auction In London
In recent art world news, Christie’s fetched $130 million during its recent postwar and contemporary art auction at its Kings Street salesroom in London last Friday evening achieving a solid…
Business and Commercial
There’s No Crying in Baseball (Even When It Rains) – Famous Rockwell Painting of Three Umpires Assessing Rain Sells for $1.6M at Auction
Norman Rockwell is as famous as apple pie for his iconic depictions of American life. Once shunned by the art world as an ordinary illustrator, Rockwell’s saccharine vignettes are now…
Business and Commercial
Basquiat Painting Sells For $110.5 Million At Sotheby’s Auction And Sets A Number Of Records
In recent art news, a vibrant painting of a skull, “Untitled” (1982), by the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s last Thursday evening and earned the…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Banking Heirs Are Auctioning Off Art to Save Family Estate
The heirs of James Jewett Stillman, head of the bank that grew into Citigroup Inc., are fighting to preserve Wethersfield, the country estate of what used to be one of…