Global Affairs Canada's recent art acquisitions for the Milan consulate, featuring unconventional pieces like 'upcycled' pink cowboy boots and Indigenous textile works, underscore contemporary institutional collecting practices under fiscal examination.
Despite a pervading sense of familiarity for returning attendees, the 2026 Dallas Art Fair delivered a notable concentration of floral motifs, figurative works, and artist-designed frames, punctuated by thoughtful booth presentations and unexpected historical inclusions.
David Hockney, Red Celia (1985), sold for $27,400, more than the low estimate at Bukowskis, Stockholm. Lithograph printed in color, 76.0 x 54.2cm. The work has not been traded before.
Andrew Wyeth, The Corn Huskers (1944), sold for $70,300, more than the low estimate at Bonhams in New York on April 23.
Alfred Thompson Bricher, Sundown, Sakonnet, sold for $48,600, more than one and a half times the low estimate at Bonhams in New York on April 23.
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