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NOT SO HOT.\u00a0<\/strong>Amid a heat wave in Europe and one day after\u00a0Sotheby\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0put together a\u00a0double-header sale<\/strong>\u00a0in London with a total ($520.7 million) more in line with a marquee sales week,\u00a0Christie\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0followed up<\/strong>\u00a0 Thursday with a more lukewarm result. The house staged its own double-header, also led by works from a prestigious collection \u2014 in this case, that of\u00a0Anita\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Poju Zabludowicz<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 followed by a 79-lot sale of postwar and contemporary art. The\u00a0Zabludowicz\u00a0works were estimated to total between \u00a312.6 million and \u00a319.3 million ($16.6 million\u2013$25.5 million); the hammer total was \u00a312.3 million ($16.2 million), just below the low estimate; with the house\u2019s fees, the sale totaled \u00a315.4 million ($20.5 million). The following sale was estimated to fetch between \u00a38.6 million and \u00a312.1 million ($11.4 million\u2013$16 million) but fell short, achieving a hammer total of just \u00a38.1 million ($10.7 million), or \u00a310.2 million ($13.5 million) with the house\u2019s fees. Better luck next time.<\/p>\n THE WAIT IS OVER<\/strong>. For decades, a large, four-panel\u00a0Norman Rockwell<\/strong>\u00a0painting depicting visitors waiting to meet with President\u00a0Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/strong>\u00a0hung in the West Wing of the\u00a0White House<\/strong>. Now, it\u2019s finally going on public display at the\u00a0People\u2019s House<\/strong>\u00a0museum, along with new research into the World War II\u2013era real people Rockwell observed and painted as they patiently waited in line,\u00a0reports<\/strong>\u00a0USA Today<\/em>. The\u00a0White House Historical Association<\/strong>\u00a0snatched up the 21-by-28-inch painting titled\u00a0So You Want to See the President!<\/em>\u00a0for $7.25 million at\u00a0Heritage Auctions<\/strong>\u00a0last year, and as part of the acquisition, uncovered the identities of the people depicted \u2014 from soldiers, lawmakers, and one of the first women to serve in the Navy\u2019s women\u2019s volunteer program, to the many people working in White House service jobs whom Rockwell observed in that waiting room. New AI features in the free exhibit, on view until June 2027, will also animate the figures so that they appear to interact with each other.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a major breakthrough, researchers announced that at least 20 columns of text from a papyrus scroll charred and carbonized by the Mount Vesuvius explosion nearly 2,000 years ago were successfully deciphered using machine-learning methods. [Washington Post<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tA government-appointed committee has recommended that Ireland fund provenance research and enact new laws that will establish a national panel for evaluating claims for looted artworks in public collections, or a Restitution and Repatriation Advisory Panel. [Art Newspaper<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tAndrew Farago, former curator at San Francisco\u2019s Cartoon Art Museum, was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of recording 20 people in the bathroom without their consent. [SFGate<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tThe late, cult artist\u00a0Paul Thek<\/strong>, who died of AIDS in 1988 at age 55, has two New York exhibitions on at the moment, at\u00a0Pace Gallery<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Galerie Buchholz<\/strong>. [Cultured<\/strong>]<\/p>\n VAN GOGH MEMORIES<\/strong>. For years,\u00a0Klaus Kallmann<\/strong>, 98, has claimed that a painting by\u00a0Vincent van Gogh<\/strong>, currently in the\u00a0Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay<\/strong>, rightfully belongs to him,\u00a0reports<\/strong>\u00a0Le Monde<\/em>. He is the grandson of\u00a0Felix Kallmann<\/strong>\u00a0(1853\u20131938), a Jewish victim of Nazi persecution in Berlin, and he vividly remembers the Dutch master\u2019s painting\u00a0H\u00f4pital Saint-Paul \u00e0 Saint-R\u00e9my-de-Provence<\/em>\u00a0(1889) hanging in his grandfather\u2019s sumptuous villa in Berlin before the Nazis came to power and his family fled. Kallmann asserts the collection had remained intact until his grandfather\u2019s home and entire collection were looted by the Nazis. Felix Kallmann died in 1938 of a heart attack, two days after Kristallnacht, the November pogrom also known as the \u201cNight of Broken Glass.\u201d Yet France\u2019s\u00a0CIVS<\/strong>\u00a0commission, charged with determining whether artworks in the country\u2019s national collection were looted, has been unable to decide whether the painting should be restituted to Kallmann, due to gaps in its provenance. Now, the case is headed to a judge and a committee of government officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/researchers-decipher-mount-vesuvius-scroll-morning-links-1234790426\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1127061121-e1782481726308.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Christie\u2019s double-header sale in London on Thursday hammered for just under its low estimate, a lukewarm result after Sotheby\u2019s $520.7 million result on Wednesday. Norman Rockwell\u2019s\u00a0So You Want to See the President!\u00a0finally goes on public view, after decades spent in the White House. 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