William Adolphe Bouguereau’s “Bergère (Shepherdess),” 1888, oil on canvas, had provenance to two landmark Twentieth Century collectors as well as extensive publication history. It sold for $325,000, the highest price of the sale ($500/700,000). Review By Madelia Hickman Ring; Photos Courtesy Heritage Auctions DALLAS — Heritage Auctions’ June 9 Fine European Art Signature auction offered

The first thing Stéphane Breitwieser steals from Belgium’s Art & History Museum is an index card. Folded in half and set inside a partially empty display case, it reads, in French, “Objects Removed for Study.” The museum contains one of the largest collections of art and antiquities in Europe, but Breitwieser immediately recognizes that, for

After 33 years on Worth Avenue, Select Fine Art is closing its doors with a retirement sale. Cara Broderick opened the gallery specializing in 19th- and 20th-century European and American fine art and antiques in 1990 at 339 Worth Ave. in Via Mizner. It has been in the same location under her ownership all these

The well-known painting popularly known as “Whistler’s Mother,” featuring an austere older woman sitting in profile, dressed in black with a white lace bonnet, has not been seen in Philadelphia in 142 years. It is now visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art in a small exhibition titled “The Artist’s Mother: Whistler and Philadelphia.” The painting,

DALLAS — Achieving the highest price in Heritage Auctions’ Fine European Art Signature Auction on June 9 was William Adolphe Bouguereau’s (French, 1825-1905) “Bergère (Shepherdess),” an oil on canvas composition painted in 1888 that sold for $325,000, including premium. The painting’s provenance included two “Museum Makers,” having previously been in the personal collections of both

A look at the luxe designs of five exhibitors at the May art show. TEFAF New York is far from the largest show on the art fair calendar, but you wouldn’t know that from the crowds that flocked to the event’s May 11 invitation-only preview at the Park Avenue Armory. Contemporary jewelers and dealers brought

Italy is poised to slash VAT rates on art imports to 5.5% in an effort to turn the country into a major competitor in the global art market. Italy currently applies a reduced VAT rate of 10% on art imports, which is higher than those in France (5.5%), Belgium (6%) and Germany (7%). The proposal

NYCxDesign, a design festival held each May in New York City, wrapped up its 11th edition last week with a strong array of group shows across boroughs — in Soho showrooms, artist studios and backyards in Brooklyn, vacant office spaces in Chinatown and galleries in between. Though officially billed as a weeklong festival beginning May

Photo Marcel van Hoorn/ANP/AFP via Getty Images Less than a year after he was hired as global managing director, Bart Drenth has left TEFAF, one of the world’s top art fairs, after Artnet News reported last week on his behavior on social media. TEFAF, full name The European Fine Art Fair, hosts annual editions in

THIS SUMMER, THE Museum of Fine Arts, Houston invites visitors to travel back in time to Paris at the turn of the century to explore the cross-cultural connections between some of the most revered artists of the modern age. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Pearlman Foundation, which opened May 21, features 38 paintings from