Van Gogh, the saint of modern painting, holds up magnificently, giving a workaday headache to the people charged with preserving his legacy.

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Lady Hale says he is the father of modern painting, and there is surely none who consistently gives such pleasure.

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While one might think that taking the cherubs out of the painting's context is a modern phenomenon, it has been going on since 1800.

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If Boston collector Scott Black likes an Impressionist or modern painting, he checks the year it was made, because huge fluctuations in value can hinge on whether the piece dates to an artist's best-loved period or amounts to a fluky offshoot.

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When Nikita Khrushchev, in a moment of notorious philistinism, denounced abstract modern painting during a visit to the Manezh gallery in Moscow in 1962, it changed the future course of Soviet art, breaking countless careers in the process.

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But as government-funded art centers sprang up, giving access to modern materials, the work moved away from dot painting and became more experimental -- incorporating brighter colors and a more painterly form.

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The Singing Butler is the most frequently reproduced image modern times, yet no public institution owns a painting by Mr Vettriano.

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An obvious answer to the museum's crisis of purpose was to expand outwards from its renowned collection of modern painting and sculpture into ever more areas of art, liberally defined, including architecture and commercial design.

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This year, Sotheby's is taking the bold step of moving its Magnificent Jewels sale from its usual October date to the holiday season, with the hope of luring buyers who are in town for its December impressionist and modern, and contemporary painting sales.

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According to the Institute, the research is fundamental for the painting's future preservation, with similar artifacts in India and Tibet having been irreversibly damaged by modern cleaning methods.

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The drawings on view at Schloss Moyland are key to understanding the artist, says Ann Temkin, chief curator of painting and sculpture at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

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