Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)

In what has been called a “magnificent act of generosity” by Adam Weinberg, Director of the Whitney, Dorothy Lichtenstein, the widow of Roy Lichtenstein, has promised to donate the American Pop artist’s Washington Street studio to the Whitney Museum in New York.

The Met is selling 219 prints by artists like Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Frank and Frank Stella in addition to Civil War photographs and photographic works by Brassai, Eadweard Muybridge, etc. With this new wave of deaccessioning, which is slated to end in April 2022, the museum hopes to cover losses due to the pandemic.

A major achievement of Louis XIV, the national estate of Marly-le-Roi has been awarded the label "Jardin remarquable". Built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in 1679 to house the leisure activities of the monarch and his family, the estate has been under the jurisdiction of the Chateau of Versailles since 2009.

Every year, Artprice ranks the most expensive artworks sold at auction. The website posted very positive results for 2020, but scales of values decreased.

This is a street art sale with a difference. Not because the Hôtel Drouot is a novice in this realm (on the contrary, the saleroom has made a speciality of this now flourishing niche market), but because the bidding (limited to around 20 lots) will close...

The very large format reclining female nude is a recurring theme in the work of Tom Wesselmann, an American painter catapulted to prominence by his series of "Great American Nudes”.

Sales were slow but steady at the 39th edition of this refreshing fair focusing on Spain and Latin America.

With numerous preemptions of objets d'art connected with his family, a new chapter of history is being written for "Le Roi des Français." Welcome to the gallery of the Orléans.

Daniel Elie Bouaziz’s gallery Danieli Fine Art was raided by the FBI in December. He has now been charged with wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering. He’s alleged to have sold fake works, which he claimed were by artists like Basquiat, Warhol, Haring, Banksy, Matisse and Lichtenstein. (Artnet News)

Stéphane Corréard and Hervé Loevenbruck will take over Jean Brolly's former space on rue de Montmorency next fall, following the definitive closure of his gallery. The inaugural exhibition will feature the British artist Roy Adzak (1927-1987).