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Richard Feigen Slapped with ‘Bogus’ Lawsuit

The Upper East Side gallerist Richard Feigen has been sued by a couple that claims the gallery failed to properly authenticate a painting they purchased 20 years ago.

The plaintiffs, Richard and Saundra Verri of Arizona, recently tried to consign a painting by Rosa Bonheur — described in both their complaint and her Wikipedia page Read More

Beckmann, Picasso: Painters Reunited For the First Time

In a rare collaboration between two elite art dealerships, Richard L. Feigen and Co. and the Jan Krugier Gallery have joined in organizing an exhibition devoted to a pair of major artists-Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Max Beckmann (1884-1950)-whose works, though they belong to the same generation of European modernists, are rarely seen in close, Read More

Great Joseph Cornell Was Shadow Player, Christian Mystic

To mark the centenary of the birth of Joseph Cornell (1903-72), Richard L. Feigen and Company has organized a superb exhibition of the artist’s shadowbox constructions and collages, and in the same spirit of homage this show is accompanied by two very different tributes to Cornell’s extraordinary career. One is a large, lavishly illustrated book Read More

John Kluge, Richard Feigen in $7 Million House Swap

Communications magnate John Kluge agreed to purchase the duplex apartment of art dealer Richard Feigen at 953 Fifth Avenue for $7 million in May. Meanwhile, Mr. Feigen has signed a contract to purchase the maisonette apartment at 960 Fifth Avenue, just one block north, at 77th Street, for $6.5 million.

“I got married recently, and Read More

Miramax ‘Love Story’ Arouses Art World Debate

Gallery owner Richard Feigen was worried on April 28 when he opened his gallery for a party following the premiere of the new Miramax film Artemisia , a dramatization of the life of a 17th-century woman painter. Though he had in his company three heavyweight hosts, Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, Madonna and arts patron Read More