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• 'We weren't meant to own it forever': how Tom Roberts's lost masterpiece was found

  04-09-2017 20:00
  The story of the recovery of Rejection, a painting by one of Australia’s most treasured artists, has drama, sadness and redemption all of its ownJoe Natoli is an obsessive art collector. A fossicker and a finder, he trawled the internet into the small hours looking for that one valuable painting that everyone else had missed. With limited funds, he had learned to identify works that were more important than an auction house realised. “When you have an addiction, you have to find a wa
  
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• Tom Roberts's Reputation: how a Queensland couple discovered a lost Australian masterpiece

  04-09-2017 20:00
  The story of the recovery of Reputation, a painting by one of Australia’s most treasured artists, has drama, sadness and redemption all of its ownJoe Natoli is an obsessive art collector. A fossicker and a finder, he trawled the internet into the small hours looking for that one valuable painting that everyone else had missed. With limited funds, he had learned to identify works that were more important than an auction house realised. “When you have an addiction, you have to find a w
  
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• Dark arts: Tim Shaw asks for recordings of silence and photos of darkness

  04-09-2017 16:29
  Off-grid Sanctuary 2017 art experiment will take place in Scotland’s Galloway Forest, one of darkest places in EuropeThe public is invited to send photographs of darkness and recordings of silence, to an artist creating a new work for a festival being held in a dark forest without internet access or phone signal.Tim Shaw has set three challenges for the public: to document darkness; record remoteness; send silence. Continue reading...
  
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• John Ashbery, Visionary Poet and Critic, Dies at 90

  04-09-2017 00:50 via artnews.com
  The writer won the Pulitzer Prize for his book 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror' in 1976. Read More
  
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• Lost for 136 years: ‘fake’ Tom Roberts painting bought for £7,500 could sell for $1m

  04-09-2017 00:04
  Rejection, bought by former mayor of Maroochydore, is deemed to be first self-portrait by father of Australian impressionism An early painting by one of the greatest artists to have worked in Australia has been discovered and authenticated after being lost for 136 years.The painting by Tom Roberts had been in unknown private hands until 2013 when it was listed by Bamfords Auctioneers in the UK for an estimated £60 to £100. Since then its provenance has been nothing if not dramatic, a
  
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• Lost for 136 years: ‘fake’ Tom Roberts painting bought for $7,000 could sell for $1m

  04-09-2017 00:04
  Rejection, bought by former mayor of Maroochydore, is deemed to be first self-portrait by father of Australian impressionism An early painting by one of the greatest artists to have worked in Australia has been discovered and authenticated after being lost for 136 years.The painting by Tom Roberts had been in unknown private hands until 2013 when it was listed by Bamfords Auctioneers in the UK for an estimated £60 to £100. Since then its provenance has been nothing if not dramatic, a
  
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• ‘Fake’ Tom Roberts painting lost for 136 years revealed to be worth $325,000

  04-09-2017 00:04
  Rejection, bought by former mayor of Maroochydore for $7,000, deemed to be first self-portrait by father of Australian impressionism An early painting by one of the greatest artists to have worked in Australia has been discovered and authenticated after being lost for 136 years.The painting by Tom Roberts had been in unknown private hands until 2013 when it was listed by Bamfords Auctioneers in Derby, UK for an estimated £60 to £100. Since then its provenance has been nothing if not
  
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