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President Donald Trump's tariffs on wood imports, introduced to support American manufacturers, have inadvertently disrupted the international trade in antiques and decorative arts. Memphis-based antique dealer Millicent Ford Creech notes that the tariffs unfairly penalize dealers specializing in pre-1800 pieces with no domestic equivalent, as fine art is exempt but collectible furniture and decorative items are not. Separately, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) received a gift of 1,600 works from local collector Kirk Edward Long, rich in early modern European prints, paintings, antiquities, and decorative arts, as part of its multiyear 'Gifts of Art' initiative. Other news includes a rare jewelry box identified in Vermeer paintings, a Rembrandt drawing sold by Thomas S. Kaplan for conservation charity, and a popular 'Grumpy Guide' tour at Düsseldorf's Kunstpalast performed by artist Carl Brandi.

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A Rembrandt drawing titled 'Young Lion Resting' (ca. 1638–43) sold for $18 million at Sotheby's New York on February 4, setting a new auction record for a work on paper by the artist. The sale price fell within the pre-sale estimate of $15–20 million and far surpassed the previous record of $3.7 million for a Rembrandt drawing.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 11, 2025 visibility 2 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

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Sotheby's hosted a lunch in Paris for billionaire collector Thomas S. Kaplan, who is selling a Rembrandt drawing titled *Young Lion Resting* (ca. 1638–42) from his Leiden Collection. The drawing, with a high estimate of $20 million, will be auctioned in New York in February, with all proceeds donated to Panthera, the wild cat conservation charity Kaplan founded. Kaplan acquired the work in 2005 from the Herring gallery and has kept much of his collection anonymous, but is now stepping forward to support conservation and public access.

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Star drawing from world’s largest private Rembrandt collection could bring $15m at auction

Billionaire entrepreneur Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife Daphne Recanati Kaplan are selling Rembrandt's drawing *Young Lion Resting* (circa 1638-42) from their Leiden Collection, one of the world's largest private holdings of 17th-century Dutch art. Sotheby's announced on November 3 that the work will be auctioned during its Old Masters sales in New York on February 4, 2026, with a pre-sale estimate of $15 million to $20 million. Proceeds from the sale will benefit Panthera, a wild-cat conservation organization co-founded by Kaplan and philanthropist Jonathan Ayers, marking the 20th anniversary of the organization's founding.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 23, 2025 visibility 4 link 8 artists

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Billionaire investor Thomas S. Kaplan, owner of the Leiden Collection—the largest private holding of Rembrandt paintings and other Dutch/Flemish Old Masters—has announced plans to fractionalize his art holdings, potentially offering shares on a public stock exchange. In an interview with the Art Newspaper, Kaplan cited his children's lack of interest in the collection and a desire to democratize art ownership, inspired by the NFT craze of the early 2020s. The collection includes Vermeer's *Young Woman Seated at a Virginal* (ca. 1670–75) and works by Frans Hals, Gerard ter Borch, and others, and is regularly loaned to major museum exhibitions.

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'Age alone does not guarantee value': Thomas S. Kaplan is showing his Dutch Old Master collection in US for first time

Collector Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife Daphne Recanati Kaplan are bringing their Leiden Collection, one of the world's largest private holdings of 17th-century Dutch art, to the US for the first time. Around a third of the collection's 220-plus works will be shown in "Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach from 25 October 2025 to 29 March 2026. Kaplan is also in discussions to fractionalise the collection into shares and float it as an IPO.

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