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Medal Recipients Announced—President Bush has presented awards to the 2007 National Medal of Arts recipients. Among the 10 selected were arts patrons Roy R. Neuberger and Henry Steinway and painters George Tooker and Andrew Wyeth. Among the 10 recipients of the National Humanities Medal was the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, Dallas, TX.

Auction Results – Recent sales of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York brought sales of $472.9 million for Christie’s and $331.4 million for Sotheby’s. Records were set for artists such as Franz Marc, Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Paul Signac. At the evening sale of Contemporary Art in New York, Sotheby’s achieved the highest sale total in a 263-year history. Thirteen artist records were established and Francis Bacon’s Second Version of Study for Bullfight No. 1 commanded $45.9 million, the top lot of the two-week series of sales.

Traditional Christmas Stamp Issued – The U.S. Postal Service has selected Italian Renaissance painter Bernardino Luini’s oil-on-panel entitled The Madonna of the Carnation (circa 1515) for its 2007 traditional Christmas stamp (a slightly cropped version). Luini used oil paints (then a relatively new medium) and enhanced his typically warm palette with the technique known as sfumato (an Italian word meaning “smoky”).

“The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.” –Joan Miro

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