Packaging of artworks for the transportation is not just a mere formality. What’s more, a properly selected package ensures a safety of transported objects, including the most fragile items. One of its types is usually called a softpack. So what does it mean? First of...
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Softpack: What Does It Mean?
Ex-Sotheby’s Chairman’s Collection Will Be Auctioned in November
The autumn auction season 2015 will be hot! Christie's has announced its intention to sell Modigliani's masterpiece from a “Reclining Nude” series for $100 million. At the same time, its eternal competitor Sotheby's is going to sell the remarkable collection of its principal owner and...
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Professional Transportation of World-Famous Masterpieces
Any museum exhibition is always associated with local or international transportation of valuable items. This process usually remains in the shadows and is not visible to the visitors. However, it plays an important or even major role in the exhibition organization and eventually allows art...
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European Museums and Their New Treasures
The Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne has recently received an unbelievable gift from an anonymous donor – a unique and rare sculpture by Auguste Rodin. At the same time, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is going to buy two portraits by Rembrandt from the art...
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Fine Art News
Fine Art Shippers are happy to share with you the latest fine art news and current events taking place in the world right now! Here goes! German artists will provide accommodation for homeless people The Fiftyfifty charity project aimed to provide accommodation for people who...
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What Is Common Between Munch and Van Gogh?
Two great artists, Edvard Munch and Vincent van Gogh, were contemporaries, but they never met. Both of them were obsessed with art, and their lives were full of tragic events. This year, for the first time in history, the iconic artists appear together in a...
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Christie’s Hopes to Sell Modigliani’s Masterpiece for $100 Million
Amedeo Modigliani’s painting from a famous series “Reclining Nude (Nu couché)” will become a centerpiece of Christie's New York Evening Sale of 20th Century Art that will be held on 9 November under the theme “The Artist’s Muse.” The price for this masterpiece created in...
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The World of Toulouse-Lautrec Through a Lens
Paris’s Montmartre with its alluring charm and romantic atmosphere is exactly the place that is fully reflected in the world of Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings. This year, one of the prominent Swiss museums, the Museum of Fine Arts Bern also known as the Kunstmuseum Bern, puts on...
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