Christie's Reassuring London Opener
The London auction season opened with a low-key yet reassuring result, as Christie’s Impressionist, Modern and Art-of-the-Surreal evening sale delivered £95,9177,100/$138,024,707 — comfortably above...
View ArticleSotheby's Mixed-Message Evening in London
Though impressively powered by four works that sold for over £10 million apiece, Sotheby’s Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist Art evening sale on Wednesday was marred in part by a trail of unsold...
View ArticleBonhams Sets New Record for Rodin’s “L'Eternel Printemps”
Bonhams has set an auction record for a second state casting of Auguste Rodin’s “L'Eternel Printemps,” one of the artist’s finest and most acclaimed works.The sculpture sold for £938,500 against an...
View ArticleArtcurial Celebrates 10 Years of Urban Art Sales
“The [urban art] market has been going up for the past 10 years and I think it’s only the beginning of this climb,” says Arnaud Oliveux, head of the department at Artcurial. The French auction house...
View ArticleThe Lord Beaverbrook Collection at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury
An eclectic assortment of furniture and works of art from Cherkley Court in Surrey, England—the former home of William Maxwell Aitken, the first Lord Beaverbrook—will be up for sale across four...
View ArticlePhillips' Respectable $35.1M 20th Century & Contemporary Art Sale
LONDON — Bucking strong financial headwinds from the global economy, Phillips managed to pull off a decent though hardly robust sale of 20th-Century & Contemporary Art that realized...
View ArticleV S Gaitonde, Amrita Sher-Gil to Make Fresh Headlines at Sotheby’s NY Auction
The largest known work made by Vasudeo S Gaitonde (1924-2001), initially created as a commission for the Air India Building in Mumbai in 1960, is coming up for sale at Sotheby’s auction of Modern &...
View ArticleFreud’s “Pregnant Girl” Portrait Sells for £16m at Auction
Lucian Freud’s “Pregnant Girl” 1960-61 has sold for £16.1 million / $23.2 during the Sotheby’s London Evening Auction of Contemporary Art, smashing the pre-sale estimate of £7-10 million and setting a...
View ArticleBidding Fireworks Spark at Sotheby’s $100.4M Contemporary Sale
Though pinched by a trio of high-value works withdrawn from the auction by nervous sellers at the 11th hour, Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Sale triggered some bidding fireworks on a few star lots and...
View ArticleKan Yasuda is "Touching Time" at Christie’s New York
Christie’s is due to show for the first time in the United States the monumental work of Ken Yasuda in “Touching Time,” an exhibition of minimalist forms in maximalist sizes.Following an exhibition of...
View ArticleChristie's $84M Post-War and Contemporary Sale Bucks Financial Markets' Slump
LONDON — Amid a grim trading day of sinking financial markets worldwide, Christie’s Post-War/Contemporary evening art auction pulled off an impressive and reassuring result, bringing...
View ArticleGaitonde, Anish Kapoor Are Newsmakers For Saffronart’s Feb 24 Auction
It’s not very often that in an auction of Indian art, a work of contemporary art supercedes those by modern masters to become an important highlight. One such rare instance is the upcoming Saffronart...
View ArticleThe Most Valuable Numismatics Collection Sold at Stack's Bowers Galleries
On February 9, the third auction dedicated to the D. Brent Pogue collection, presented by Stack’s Bowers Galleries in partnership with Sotheby’s, became the most valuable series of numismatic auctions...
View ArticleFashion Designer Erdem Guest Curates Sotheby’s Art Sale
Sotheby’s has invited London-based Canadian fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu to guest-curate a sale of contemporary art in London.The London Fashion Week designer is best known for his use of...
View ArticleSotheby’s Sale Homage to “Europe’s Handsomest Man,” Artist Boutet de Monvel
A Sotheby’s sale is to pay homage to Bernard Boutet de Monvel – in his time dubbed the most fashionable of society artists and the best-looking man in Europe.The April 5 and 6 Paris auction will offer...
View ArticleArtcurial Sets New Auction Records for 9 Urban Artists
French auction house Artcurial has achieved new auction records for nine artists during its February 14 Urban Art sale in Paris.New world auction records were set for Shuck2, Aroe, Noe Two, Speedy...
View ArticleFrom Kate Moss to 007, Hirst to Beatles, Sotheby’s Sale Defines Cool Britannia
Sotheby’s is holding its latest “Made in Britain” sale with a series of artworks that define Cool Britannia. Kate Moss, the Beatles, Sean Connery, Mick Jagger, and Noel Coward are among those pictured....
View ArticleThe Collection of Pierre Hebey to Hit the Block at Artcurial
On February 22 and 23, French auction house Artcurial will partner with Camard & Associés to auction off the significant collection of renowned French lawyer, and writer, Pierre Hebey. The trove,...
View ArticleScandinavian Design Fails to Spark Interest at Piasa
At Piasa’s bi-annual auction dedicated Scandinavian design on February 17, Poul Kjærholm’s steel, plywood, and leather daybed from 1959 was the highest-selling lot of the sale. The piece fell short of...
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