LAtESt nEWS FROm tHE WORLD OF FInE ARt
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Simon Gudgeon’s iconic new
the extraordinary story of one of the most
sculpture -Isis - recently unveiled in
daring and most elaborate art frauds in
Hyde Park is the focal point of a £1.8
history tells the true tale of how supreme
million fundraising campaign for a new
con man John Drewe, aided by art forger
children’s education centre, launched
John myatt - now one of the uK's top-
selling artists - duped some of the most
by the Royal Parks Foundation in con-
prestigious galleries, collectors and art
junction with London’s Halcyon Gal-
experts across the world. Written by in-
lery. Sitting proudly on the banks of the
vestigative reporters Laney Salisbury and
Serpentine, Isis includes a donation
Aly Sujo, 'Provenance', which featured on
box at its base together with 1,000
Oprah Winfrey’s top 4 Summer Reading
plaques. Each plaque is inscribed with
Picks 2009, is fast-paced, meticulously
the names of people who have given
researched and utterly enthralling.
£1,000 or more to the cause.
Available from www.amazon.co.uk
More than a third of the plaques
have already been sold and laid around
the base of Isis. To date, over £1 million
has been pledged for the campaign.
www.royalparksfoundation.org
oVer £4,000
rAiSeD For
CoMiC relieF
Original signed
doodles by six
Washington
wiZarD oF oZ comes to HarroDs
Green artists
raised a phe-
Original work by two Washington
nomenal £4,810
Green artists will feature in Harrods
in an eBay
window display this Christmas, as part
auction in aid
of its Wizard of Oz theme to celebrate
of Comic Relief
the fi lm's 70th anniversary. Specially
earlier this year.
commissioned by the world-famous
Including a stag-
store, John Wilson has created a stun-
gering £2,005 achieved for a doodle by
ning three-dimensional Yellow Brick
Alexander Millar, the artists sensationally
Road painting, and Sarah Graham an
outperformed 13 other celebrities, whose
enchanted piece entitled 'Somewhere
doodles raised just £545 between them!
Over the Rainbow'. Graham's painting
Every £1 raised will be used to buy
will also be produced in a very limited
one malaria prevention mosquito net for
edition of just 70, on sale exclusively at
children and families in Africa, where the
Harrods for £450.
disease claims over a million children's
lives each year.
Autumn 2009 Fine Art ColleCtor 9
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