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...SUED. ELIZABETH TAYLOR, 72, U.S. film star, over the ownership of Vincent Van Gogh's View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy; in Los Angeles. The descendants of Margarete Mauthner, a Jewish refugee who fled from Berlin to South Africa in 1939, say there is evidence the 1889 painting was confiscated from Mauthner by the Nazis. Taylor claims the painting, which she bought at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1963 for $257,000 and which is now worth $15 million, was sold by Mauthner in 1933, the year the Nazis came to power, "for financial reasons...
With its majestic Rijksmuseum and gorgeous Van Gogh depository, Amsterdam is a must on any culture vulture's tour of Europe. But your brush with art doesn't have to end at the museum exits. These days, you can stay in hotels that are part accommodation, part art space, part salon...
...million The old record price, paid by a Japanese billionaire in a 1990 auction for Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet...
...started with Vincent Van Gogh. When Vincent Polakovic was a 10-year-old boy in Poprad, north Slovakia, he saw a reproduction of Van Gogh's Wheatfield with Crows at a friend's house, and fell in love. "I had no idea such art existed," he says. "We didn't have any pictures at home." That glimpse began a journey that has culminated in the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, a modern art gallery in the unlikely setting of an artificial peninsula jutting into the Danube's Gabc?kovo reservoir, some 15 km south of Bratislava. After teaching himself art history...
...Chirino, Dutch painter Ad Snijders and Slovak painter Peter Poll?g. Coming up are "True Colors," the work of 68 U.S. artists responding to Sept. 11 (April 6 to May 23), and a retrospective of Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz (May 25 to June 17). Although no longer obsessed with Van Gogh, Polakovic honors the artist's legacy in Danubiana. "His idea with Yellow House was to create a community where artists could meet, work and show their works," he says. "Danubiana aspires to be such a place...