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A woman cleans a piece of art during the preparation of the exhibition “Non Basta Ricordare — Collezione MAXXI” during a press review at the MAXXI museum in Rome. The exhibition will run till September 28, 2014. Art track: A woman cleans a piece of art during the preparation of the exhibition “Non Basta Ricordare — Collezione MAXXI” during a press review at the MAXXI museum in Rome. The exhibition will run till September 28, 2014. Photos: AFP
A woman looks at a sphinx sculpture during a press review of the exhibition Monsters, Fantastic Creatures of the Fear and the Myth at the Museo Nazionale Romano in the Palazzo Massimo in Rome. Fantastic creatures: A woman looks at a sphinx sculpture during a press review of the exhibition Monsters, Fantastic Creatures of the Fear and the Myth at the Museo Nazionale Romano in the Palazzo Massimo in Rome.
Visitors crowd around Tyeb Mehta’s “Mahisasura” during a media preview ahead of Christie’s first auction in India, in Mumbai recently. Christie's comes calling: Visitors crowd around Tyeb Mehta’s “Mahisasura” during a media preview ahead of Christie’s first auction in India, in Mumbai recently. International auction house Christie's doubled estimates and raised $16.3 million at its first sale in India, with its top lot raising $3.8 million. A canvas by Tyeb Mehta of goddess Durga battling a buffalo demon was the second-highest seller, going for Rs 197.8 million ($3.17 million). The auction was part of Christie’s strategy to tap into the growing clout of Asian buyers, following its first sale in China in September which raised $25 million. 
Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, 1890. Oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, which had rarely been seen by the public, was given to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, collection of Paul Mellon. Van Gogh’s last: Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, 1890. Oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, which had rarely been seen by the public, was given to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, collection of Paul Mellon. The work was probably painted a few weeks before the death of the artist. In this painting, Van Gogh eliminates the rural figures, stony walls, wooden carts, dramatic trees, and rustic buildings that populate so many of his landscapes and focuses instead on the wind-blown clouds and tall grasses. 





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