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• ‘Ordinary’ Chinese vase valued at €2,000 sells for almost €8m after bidding war

  03-10-2022 15:49
  Tianqiuping-style porcelain sells for nearly 4,000 times its estimated value after buyers are convinced it is a rare artefactAn “ordinary” Chinese vase put up for auction in France and valued at €2,000 (£1,745) has sold for almost €8m after a ferocious bidding war among buyers convinced it was a rare 18th-century artefact.At the sale in Fontainebleau near Paris, auctioneers were astonished as the offers from about 30 mainly Chinese bidders kept on coming. When the ham
  
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• ‘Ordinary’ Chinese vase sells for almost €8m after ferocious bidding war

  03-10-2022 15:49
  Tianqiuping-style porcelain sells for nearly 4,000 times its estimated value after buyers are convinced it is a rare artefactAn “ordinary” Chinese vase put up for auction in France and valued at €2,000 (£1,745) has sold for almost €8m after a ferocious bidding war among buyers convinced it was a rare 18th-century artefact.At the sale in Fontainebleau near Paris, auctioneers were astonished as the offers from about 30 mainly Chinese bidders kept on coming. When the ham
  
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• Cézanne review – gags, mountains and murder in a dizzying, devastating show

  03-10-2022 15:29
  Tate Modern, London
  For a long time, the French artist was the ultimate icon of seriousness. But these beautiful, touching works reveal the sly playful humour at the heart of his geniusPaul Cézanne’s sketchbook lies open at a childish drawing of a tall bendy house. It turns out he often let his little son use it. This openness to child’s play says a lot about the man, and not only as a parent. For Cézanne was the first western artist since the middle ages to claim a chi
  
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• ‘Hip-hop honeys’ and sitting as a political act: why Tschabalala Self is one of America’s hottest artists

  03-10-2022 09:00
  How can a simple moment of leisure be a powerful statement? The New York artist talks about bringing her sitting art to Britain – and explains how the exploitation of ‘video vixens’ inspired her‘Imagine you’re on a bike, as opposed to a car, a train, or a plane,” says Tschabalala Self. “Imagine how the world appears, how quickly and easily you’re able to move through it. How clearly you can see people and they can see you.” She pauses. &ldquo
  
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• Henry Moore Festival of Britain bronze expected to break auction records

  03-10-2022 07:00
  Exclusive: work that has divided opinion will be sold by Sotheby’s with estimate of $30m-$40mIt was labelled “a monstrosity” and a work of art so bad that it deserved to be interred, not displayed. But many more recognised it as a work of genius, Henry Moore considered it one of his finest, and later this year it is expected to break auction records as the most expensive sculpture made by a British artist.Moore’s bronze of a reclining semi-abstract figure stopped people i
  
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