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11/17/2025

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11/17/2025

Van Gogh’s Sower in a Wheatfield with setting Sun (July 1888) will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in New York on 18 November, with an estimate of $8m-$10m. If it exceeds the $8.8m hammer price of La Mousmé (August 1888), a portrait of a young woman from Arles which sold at Christie’s in 2021, it will set a new auction record for a Van Gogh drawing.

Sower in a Wheatfield with setting Sun belonged to Leonard Lauder, who died in June, aged 92. Along with his brother Ronald, another important art collector, he inherited a major stake in the leading American cosmetics company established by their parents, Estée and Joseph Lauder.

Leonard Lauder’s drawing, which Van Gogh made for his artist friend Emile Bernard, is a copy of a painting. The original painting, entitled The Sower (June 1888), now belongs to the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, in the east of the Netherlands. It is currently on loan to London’s National Gallery, in the exhibition Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists (until 8 February 2026).

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/14/van-goghs-sower-will-soon-go-on-sale-at-sothebyswhere-its-set-to-make-record-price

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10/27/2025

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10/27/2025

I didn’t know

Today is Ida O’Keeffe’s Birthday!

Only two years younger than her sister Georgia, Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe (left) was in 1889. She began creating art in elementary school, and although she moved to New York to attend nursing school in 1918, she continued to paint. Around 1925, Ida studied the works of James Whistler and began experimenting with oil paints. Two years later, in 1927, Ida exhibited several pieces at the Opportunity Gallery in Manhattan under Ida Ten Eyck. Ida earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University and developed her own unique abstract artistic style, seen in her paintings of lighthouses. Ida’s art set her apart, and her singular talent left a lasting impact on modern art.

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Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia and Ida O’Keeffe, Lake George. 1924; Gelatin Silver Print. Image: 11.4 × 8.9 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.) Getty Research Institute. Object Number [94.XM.25]

10/27/2025

10/27/2025

Congratulations Ted Nuttall for his painting “She only Remembered The Last Time” - 13 x 18 Inches - $4000 winning the Award of Merit sponsored by Legion Papers, Paint Tube and Jerry’s Artarama in our 46th annual International Juried Show.

09/10/2025

of the Day: The Poet’s Garden, September 1888. Oil on canvas, 73 × 92.1 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago.

09/10/2025

of the Day: The Old Mill, September 1888. Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 54 cm. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo.

09/10/2025