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the New York Times reported.“I’m really disappointed,” he admitted. “But then, I think, if I had a lot of money it would put a lot of pressure on me.“And that’s the last thing I need,” he added.Herman was given the untitled 6-foot abstract nude by former lawyer Isidore Silver, whom he became close friends with after he started walking his toy poodle about six years ago, according to the paper.Silver, who had repped Close in a First Amendment lawsuit against the University of Massachusetts in the 1960s, had mentioned to Herman in passing that he kept one of the artist’s works rolled up in a closet.

In the late summer of 2013, Wendy Nichol was two weeks away from staging her first runway show at New York Fashion Week when she got a call from Beyoncé’s stylist, Lysa Cooper.Beyoncé had spent the past 48 hours trying on 200 dresses for a video for her song “Drunk in Love,” Cooper said. And they had landed on a sheer black chiffon number Nichols had designed for her upcoming Spring 2014 collection.“She was like, ‘Jay-Z is standing here telling me this is the only dress he wants her wearing during the entire video,’” Nichol told The Post.Beyoncé went on to wear the dress as she frolicked in the ocean for the video for what would become one of her most iconic songs.

on “The Graham Norton Show.” “Completely, head to toe, in blue paint,” the “Breaking Bad” star continued. The Golden Globe winner said things took a dangerous turn when he began shooting the scene for the 2001 “Hal Quits” episode.“As you shoot, you’re moving around,” Cranston explained.

A famous painting created by Pablo Picasso in 1932 is being prepped for auction and fine art experts believe it could sell for more than $120 million.The painting, known as “Femme à la Montre” in French or “Woman in Watch” in English, is now in the hands of the New York City-based fine art auction house Sotheby’s, according to a press release obtained by FOX Business.If the pre-sale estimate holds true, Femme à la Montre would become the second most expensive Picasso painting to sell at auction.Sotheby’s New York is planning to sell the painting in November through a single-night auction. The painting belonged to Emily Fisher Landau, an esteemed New York philanthropist, art collector and patron, who died in March at the age of 102.Femme à la Montre is one of the 120 works that make up The Emily Fisher Landau Collection.Sotheby’s New York will auction off the items on Wednesday, Nov.

“The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession” (Knopf).“To him, beauty is the world’s only true currency — the person with the most beauty is, therefore, the richest. He has sometimes considered himself one of the wealthiest people alive.”Breitwieser was in his 20s when he stole the art, mostly during a grand theft tour of France, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria from 1994 to 2001. He mainly stole from museums and was accompanied by his girlfriend and accomplice, Anne-Catherine Kleinklaus.His passion for art was gluttonous; it excited him emotionally and even sexually to touch it.

defamation win over ex-wife Amber Heard, Depp, 59, shared news of the sale with an Instagram pic of him sitting in front of four of his works of other icons.“NOW AT #CASTLEFINEART,” he captioned the pic, linking the UK gallerythat then told fans, “The wait is finally over!”“We’re delighted to announce that the latest signing to Castle Fine Art is the critically acclaimed actor, musician, and artist, #JohnnyDepp,” the gallery said.Less than 20 minutes later, the gallery admitted having such a rush of wannabe buyers that its website crashed.“#JohnnyDepp broke the internet!” Castle Fine Art tweeted.As fans complained about being unable to access the sale, the gallery then tweeted that Depp’s “debut collection ‘Friends & Heroes’ is now officially sold out.”“This world-first release proved to be our fastest-selling collection to date, with all titles selling out in just hours,” the gallery said.All 780 prints were quickly marked “out of stock,” with the sale making an estimated $3.65 million in the sale.In its catalog, the gallery said, “For Johnny Depp there has always been art.

a supposed long-lost van Gogh painting is a fake, much to the chagrin of a notable New York art collector who’s fighting the determination in a new $300 million lawsuit.Stuart Pivar — who founded the New York Academy of Art with Andy Warhol in 1979 — says he found the work, which he believes is Vincent van Gogh’s “Auvers, 1890” at a country auction in March.Pivar has “every reason to believe [the painting] was an authentic work of art created by Vincent van Gogh,” his Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit from Tuesday claims.But the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said it could not authenticate the piece in a determination from Aug.