The price graph displayed below says that you can do very well owning impressionist art.
But there is much more to Philly than history, from cheesesteaks and fine dining to a truly stunning world class assortment of museums and the largest collection of impressionist French art outside of Paris.
Take Christie's sale of Impressionist and modern art, one of the highlights of the week.
Despite the downturn, Impressionist and Modern Art has fared better than other genres.
In the 1980s, Japanese buyers dominated the market for Impressionist and Modern art.
The evening auction of Impressionist and Modern Art made history by realizing the highest total for any auction ever held in Europe.
First, last week's Impressionist and Modern Art auctions and next month's Turner Water Colours auction in July are happening in a still white-hot art market.
Shaw, head of Impressionist and Modern Art at the auction house, said the picture's status as a high-profile target for thieves had only boosted its popularity.
"We really believed you could damage the prospect of selling even a very fine work if it was overestimated, " said David Norman, co-chairman of Impressionist and modern art.
Sales of Impressionist and modern art proved a disappointment, though.
"A Card Player" by Paul Cezanne, will be the star lot of a sale of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie's in New York on May 1, 2012.
Looked at in this way, a closer examination of Christie's sale of Impressionist and modern art this week shows that things did not go quite as well as the post-sale press release let on.
For years later, whenever anyone had a de Lempicka to sell, the reaction was always the same: "Everyone said, 'Oh, offer it to Madonna, ' " says David Norman, Sotheby's co-chairman of Impressionist and modern art world-wide.
The collection spans a range of styles and eras, including old master paintings and drawings, rare works by impressionist greats, African art and more.
Twice a year, a caravan of art-world insiders descends on London for 10 frenzied days of cocktail parties, exhibits and high-pressure sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art.
While she expects that impressionist, modern and contemporary art will continue to fetch high prices, Corroon reports that the demand for wine, watches, decorative art, prints and photography is also zealous.
One question some art insiders are raising: With great impressionist and modern work ever scarcer, will the most activity come in contemporary art?
He has bought out Sotheby's New York jewellery experts en bloc, taken half its French furniture team and is seeking to seduce to Phillips the impressionist, modern picture and contemporary art expertise of Sotheby's and Christie's in London, with all the multi-million-dollar business and contacts they can bring.
Next came Edouard Malingue, a French art dealer whose focus is on selling Impressionist and Modern works to Asian buyers.
An even more egregious omission, given that this book attempts to look at how cuisine defines French culture as a whole, is visual art: there is no mention of the sumptuous culinary still-lifes by Chardin, the countless Impressionist picnics, brioches by Bonnard or mealtimes by Matisse, images that have literally transformed food into art in a specifically French way.
The recent Modern and Impressionist auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's gave art-market watchers a lot to digest.
Sotheby's said it was the first time since May 2006, when art markets were flourishing, that one of its Impressionist sales exceeded the high pre-sale estimate - in this case by almost 10%.
The second-largest art museum in the country hangs masterpieces aplenty, especially Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pieces.
The Nahmad art inventory is so sweeping that almost everyone who deals in impressionist and modern work has crossed the family's path at some point.
New York art dealer David Nash, who ran Sotheby's international Impressionist and modern department for many years, says that though he expects the work to fetch a high price, he's still surprised by the auction house's "Scream" strategy.
In the late 19th century, Impressionist painters challenged the status quo by creating pieces void of historical significance or realism, emphasizing that art need not be practical.
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It seems almost frivolous to mention that at the same time many works of art that adorned the offices, boardrooms and waiting rooms of the companies--from Impressionist paintings to a child's watercolor--as well as the World Trade Towers themselves were obliterated.
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