Hubert Vos: Painter of China’s Dowager Empress Cixi
The Dutch born painter Hubert Vos, who attended the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair as a Deputy Commissioner for the Netherlands, had an epiphany at the event which would change the course of his artistic career. He later wrote: It was during the World’s Fair in Chicago, where the officials had brought together the greatest collection […]
China’s Art Market and Fraud
In a recently posted article on Forbes.com, writer Abagail R. Esman asserts that China’s art market — the world’s largest — is rife with fraud and deception. Among Esman’s assertions: – Many major purchases at China’s auction houses are defaulted on, and never completed. – Artificially inflated purchase prices and manipulated sales have distorted the […]