NOVEMBER Österreichische Galerie Belvedere opened Enlightened Bourgeois - Portraits from Gainsborough to Waldmüller 1750 –1840. The Whitney Museum of American Art opened Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World. Art Cologne opened and celebrates 40th anniversary. The Museum of Modern Art presented Manet and the Execution of Maximilian. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum opened Rauschenberg. Express. The Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art opened Georges Rouault - Form, Color, Harmony. Christie’s and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation announced the withdrawal of the magnificent Blue Period Portrait de Angel Fernández de Soto, 1903, by Picasso that had been scheduled for sale at Christie’s New York sale of Impressionist and Modern Art. Christie’s sale of Impressionist and Modern Art realized $491,472,000, setting a new record for any auction. Nine new world auction records were set including for Klimt, Schiele, Kirchner, Gauguin and Balthus. The Taft Museum of Art announced that Eric McCauley Lee will be the Museum’s new director. For the first time an exhibition will focus on Netherlandish diptychs, featuring some of the most beautiful and intriguing paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, opened The Art of Richard Tuttle. A painting by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes from the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art was stolen while en route from Toledo, Ohio, to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, where it was scheduled to be included in the exhibition Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History. Willem de Kooning's Untitled XXV sold for a record $27 million. Among the artists for whom the sale set new world auction records were Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Sam Francis, and Sol LeWitt. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History. The National Gallery of Art in Washington opened Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt’s Prints and Drawings. The FBI announced the recovery of the stolen Goya. The Reina Sofia Museum announced it will hold the most ambitious exhibition on Pablo Picasso in 2008. Städel Museum presented The Painter's Garden: Design, Inspiration, Delight. The Albertina presented Andy Warhol: Popstars. Drawings and Collages. Getty Director reconfirmed decision to return 26 objects to Italy. The Van Gogh Museum opened Vincent van Gogh and Expressionism. A Botticelli drawing was discovered in Dresden. The Hirshhorn Museum acquired 24 new works of art.