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Victoria Emerging Art Awards

June 24, 2010

Hosted by:

The Avenue Gallery

The Avenue Gallery

August 19, 2010

6pm - 8pm

2184 Oak Bay Ave

Victoria, B.C.

Victoria Emerging Art Awards is a unique opportunity for young emerging artists to get the recognition they deserve.  The award show also offers the community accessible prices in a reputable commercial gallery and a fair assessment regarding the monetary value of artists’ work.  The first inaugural show is being hosted by one of the top galleries on Vancouver Island, The Avenue Gallery. The exhibition will run for one week Aug 19-26 2010.

VEAG is seeking unique talent (see submissions), with many of our artists sourced from the upcoming Victoria Emerging Art Awards.


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Picasso masterpiece sells for millions in London

June 24, 2010

Christies' auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen gestures near Pablo Picasso's 1903 painting 'Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto' during an auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in London on Wednesday. Photograph by: Paul Hackett, Reuters z

Christies' auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen gestures near Pablo Picasso's 1903 painting 'Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto' during an auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in London on Wednesday. Photograph by: Paul Hackett, Reuters

LONDON — A celebrated masterpiece by Pablo Picasso called the ”Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto” — also known as “The Absinthe Drinker”, the sold Wednesday at Christie’s auction house in London for 34.8 million pounds, in a sale that set a record for the amount of money made at a British art auction.

The painting is a 1903 work from the Spanish painter’s Blue Period.

“The Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto” — which was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder — depicts one of Picasso’s artist companions, leaning on a table with a glass of absinthe and smoke curling from his pipe.

The painting was sold by British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s foundation, a charity which focuses on the promotion of arts, culture and heritage in Britain. It acquired the work for $29.2 million in New York in 1995.

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