Ikon Gallery’s 50th Anniversary Auction and Artist Editions
Birmingham’s internationally renowned Ikon Gallery is raising funds for its 50th Anniversary Endowment Fund with an auction of artworks donated by some of the most important contemporary artists, all...
View ArticlePhillips' Opening Night Bucks Stiff Financial Market Winds
On a day when the Eurozone crisis hammered global financial markets, the art market passed a tough contemporary art test at Phillips London, as the boutique-scaled auction house realized...
View ArticleSales Maintained a Steady Pace at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art...
LONDON — Though largely absent of fireworks and stung by a quartet of unsold Gerhard Richter paintings, the art market maintained its steady course at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary art evening...
View ArticleFrench Auction House Artcurial to Open Office in Germany
As part of its international development strategy, France’s largest auction house Artcurial-Briest-Poulain-F.Tajan revealed plans to open an office in Germany this week, announcing German art market...
View ArticleSotheby's Big But Bruising Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London
Raucous protesters crowded the sidewalk in front of Sotheby’s posh New Bond Street entrance on Wednesday evening, shouting and blasting air horns at arriving auction goers, “Shame on You!”The protest...
View ArticleLarasati Singapore to Auction Southeast Asian “Hidden Gems” Artworks July 5
Larasati Singapore will be auctioning 50 Southeast Asian modern and contemporary artworks, what the auction house called “hidden gems” by artists that it considers to be “very much underrated and...
View Article"Top Hat" Movie Poster to Lead Bonhams "Picture Perfect" Sale
The movie poster has always been an important marketing tool, but now Bonhams and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) are treating it as a work of art. The “Picture Perfect: the Art of Movie Posters” sale will...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Know Indian Tribal Art’s Finest Signatures
The best thing about the upcoming folk and tribal art auction at Story LTD is that it is not just about the rich ethnic art forms of India. It is as much about the signatures behind those exquisite...
View ArticleViews from the Top: Artcurial on Expanding in Hong Kong & Monte-Carlo, the...
As its staff get ready to hold Artcurial’s 10th annual auction devoted to luxury items in Monte-Carlo, July 18-22, the French auction house is in expansion mode. Having recently announced it would open...
View ArticleSotheby’s in the Lead With Old Master Paintings Sale Results
Sotheby’s Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale of July 8 appeared to be a success compared to Christie’s results the following day. Sotheby’s totaled £39 million or $60 million with 64.9...
View ArticleSotheby's Inaugural Contemporary Living Sale on July 22
On July 22, Sotheby’s New York will host their inaugural Contemporary Living sale with a selection of roughly 250 works mixing the categories of photography, prints, and 20th century design. With...
View ArticleCompetition at the Top: The Auction Season in Germany
German auction houses are relatively small, as is the entire German art market. Its share of the global pie is between 2 and 4 percent, despite the strong presence of German artists and galleries in...
View ArticleHepworth Leads Christie's London Evening Sale of Modern British and Irish Art
In London on June 25, Christie’s evening sale dedicated to Modern British and Irish art brought in a total of £18,973,000 ($29.9 million), led by Barbara Hepworth’s bronze Two Forms with White (Greek),...
View ArticleNew Record for Frederic Leighton Work on Paper at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s has set a new auction record for a work on paper by Frederic, Lord Leighton during its July 15 Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art sale in London, selling a study for...
View ArticleTop 5 at Story LTD’s Folk & Tribal Art Auction
As expected, Gond artist Durga Bai’s contemporary tribal work, “River Narmada,” has come out tops at the end of the No-Reserve Folk & Tribal Art Auction held at www.storyltd.com on July 14-15. The...
View ArticleA Preview of Christie's First Open/NYC Summer Edition Sale
The summer edition of Christie’s First Open in New York on July 22 promises a familiar mix of midtier postwar and contemporary art with the added bonus of some notable sellers, including the Bass...
View Article195% Growth Makes Auctionata Germany’s Biggest Auction House
Just two years after launching weekly livestream auctions, Berlin-based online auction house Auctionata is now Germany’s biggest auction house both in terms of revenue and size of staff having achieved...
View ArticleChristie’s and Sotheby’s Release Six-Month Sales Figures
Though the art market continues to post huge gains, six-month figures released by Christie’s today show at $4.5 billion a flat line and close to virtual tie for what the market leader firm achieved for...
View ArticleJacques Majorelle Paintings Lead Artcurial Africanism Sale
French auction house Artcurial will present the largest sale dedicated to Africanism in 20 years in Paris on November 9. The “African Spirit” sale will feature more than 30 works of Africanist art...
View ArticleSotheby’s Australia Sets Four Artist Records in Sydney
Sotheby’s Australia has set four new artist auction records during July 21 sale of Fine Asian, Australian & European Arts & Design Including Property from the Minter Ellison Collection. New...
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