Van Goghs Sunflowers legal dispute. Plus, Singapores art scene and photographer Grace Lau

Published: Jan. 20, 2023, 12:01 a.m.

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Vincent Van Gogh\\u2019s Sunflowers in Tokyo are the subject of a legal claim in the US relating to Nazi loot. The Art Newspaper\\u2019s London correspondent and resident Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey tells us why Sunflowers (1888-89) is at the centre of the dispute, 35 years after it was sold for a record price at auction, and why the heirs of the German Jewish banker Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, who owned it until the 1930s, now value it at a staggering $250m. Our editor-at-large Georgina Adam has just returned from Singapore, where the first Art SG art fair took place last week. How successful was this new event in the art market calendar, and what does it tell us about Singapore\\u2019s ambitions to become an art hub? And this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week is Portraits in a Chinese Studio, a photographic work by the artist Grace Lau. In the project, which marks Chinese New Year, Lau is subverting the tradition of colonial 19th-century portrait studios in a shopping centre in Southampton on the south coast of the UK.


Grace Lau: Portraits in a Chinese Studio, Marlands Shopping Centre, Southampton, UK, 21 January-12 February



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