Graham Bowley

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Graham Bowley

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, the mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the 7th century B.C. was likely stolen from an archaeological museum in Olympia in the 1930s. The museum said the head, which entered the collection as a gift from a former trustee in 1972, will be turned over to Greece's minister of culture at a ceremony Monday at the Met.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Tom Mashberg |Graham Bowley

Towering bronzes depicting emperors once graced an ancient shrine in a region of what is now Turkey that was once part of Rome's extended empire. I nstalled between around A.D. 50 and 250 to venerate imperial power, the statues were later buried by earthquakes only to be discovered and quietly sold by local farmers in the 1960s. They ended up in museums and antiquities collections around the world.

Feb 4, 2025 | nytimes.com | Graham Bowley

An art collector is suing David Geffen for the return of a valuable Giacometti sculpture that the collector says was sold without his knowledge by his art adviser as part of an elaborate fraud.

Dec 29, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Michael Forsythe |Graham Bowley |Elisabetta Povoledo

Cast off by the Nazis, but heralded by curators, the artist’s painting of his doctor, made just before van Gogh’s suicide, has not been seen in 34 years. When the hammer fell at Christie’s in Manhattan on May 15, 1990, a Vincent van Gogh painting, Portrait of Dr Gachet, set the record at the time for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, going to a Japanese paper magnate for US$82.5 million ($146.5m).

Dec 20, 2024 | smh.com.au | Michael Forsythe |Graham Bowley |Elisabetta Povoledo

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When the hammer fell at Christie’s in Manhattan on May 15, 1990, a Vincent van Gogh painting, Portrait of Dr Gachet, set the record at the time for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, going to a Japanese paper magnate for $US82.5 million. Painted in the garden of the artist’s physician in June 1890, it was completed just weeks before van Gogh’s suicide by gunshot.