Armed robbers raid South African art museumJOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Three armed robbers stormed into the Pretoria Art Museum Sunday and made away with around 15 million rands ($1.8 million) worth of artwork, South African media reported. “They pulled out a list and said they were looking for so and so painting which is our old masterpieces,” Daywood Khans, a museum employee […]
Original of world’s ‘most popular’ art print brings $1.5MLONDON (AFP) – A picture dubbed the most reproduced fine art print in the world sold at auction in London on Wednesday for almost £1 million, a record for South African artist Vladimir Tretchikoff. Chinese Girl was bought by the chairman of Graff Diamonds International, Laurence Graff, for £982,050 (around 13.8 million rand, $1.5 million, […]