Datebook: Prints on the Block in Germany
“The auction market for rare books, manuscripts, autographs, and decorative prints is very dynamic,” says Christoph Calaminus, head of department at the German auction house Ketterer Kunst. On May 23...
View ArticleChristie’s to Auction Major Works by Bacon, Lowry, Spencer in London
Christie’s has announced another three major works that will be included in its upcoming 250th anniversary Defining British Art sale on June 30 in London. The three paintings by the great modern...
View Article20th Century & Contemporary Art Auctions at Christie's and Phillips
New York—The art market survived a back-to-back, double-whammy acid test, held on Mother’s Day no less, with Christie’s themed “Bound to Fail” contemporary art auction raking in $78.1 million and...
View ArticleSotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Sale Weathers a Softer Market
Faced with a more discriminating market fixated on both quality and value, the Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern evening sale suffered a rather bumpy ride.Twenty-one of the 62 lots offered failed to...
View ArticleBonhams to Offer Reddihough Collection of British Modern Art
Bonhams will offer works from the collection of Cyril Reddihough, one of Ben Nicholson’s major supporters, at its Modern British and Irish Art Sale in London on June 15, 2016. Described by Bonhams as...
View ArticleChristie's Post-War & Contemporary Sale Boosts the Market With Strong Results
In the wake of Sotheby’s rocky evening on Monday, Christie’s gave the art market a critical booster shot tonight with a Post-War and Contemporary sale that realized a reassuring $318.4 million.Just...
View ArticleYusaku Maezawa, Mystery Basquiat Bidder at Christie's, Goes Public
The mystery telephone buyer of five major works at Christie’s $318 million evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art on Tuesday — including a record-setting Jean-Paul Basquiat painting that went...
View ArticleTokyo Chuo Auction Announce Hong Kong Spring Sales Lineup for 2016
A 250-year-old lotus vase and a virtuosic 20th-century ink scroll will be up on the block at Tokyo Chuo Auction’s 2016 Spring Sales in Hong Kong, running May 29 and 30 at the Four Seasons Hotel.These...
View ArticleSotheby’s Soothing Contemporary Evening Sale
Frayed nerves and worries about a slumping contemporary art market seemed to evaporate in a round of hearty applause at Sotheby’s on Wednesday night, following a bravura and finely choreographed...
View ArticleChristie’s Mild-Mannered Imp/Mod Closer
The Impressionist and Modern market continued to show signs of weakness on Thursday night, with a Christie’s evening sale tally of $141,532,000 — just above the low end of pre-sale expectations of...
View ArticleQi Baishi Works to Feature in Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fine Chinese Paintings Sale...
Six works by Qi Baisji, mostly from his later period will be offered at Sotheby’s Hong Kong’s latest “Fine Chinese Paintings Sale,” scheduled for May 30, including “Prosperity and Longevity,” 1957,an...
View ArticleTop 5 at Christie’s Arts of India Sale, London, May 26
On May 26, alongside the high-profile auction of South Asian Modern and Contemporary Indian Art by Christie’s at King Street, London, will take place another India-related sale. Titled “Arts of India,”...
View ArticleSneak Peek: 33 Auction Spring Sale 2016, Singapore
33 Auction’s spring sale of Singaporean Art and Modern and Contemporary Asian Art, to be held May 21 at the Grand Hyatt Singapore, will feature a total of 125 lots by Singaporean, Chinese, and...
View ArticleRare-to-Market Picasso to Headline Sotheby’s London Sale
A genuinely rare to market Cubist masterpiece headlines Sotheby’s June 21 evening sale in London, with Pablo Picasso’s stunning “Femme Assise,” 1909, featuring the fragmented beauty of his lover,...
View ArticleSotheby’s to Offer Picasso’s Cubist Masterwork ‘Femme assise’ in London
Sotheby’s will offer Pablo Picasso’s seminal early cubist portrait “Femme assise” 1909, one of the artist’s most important cubist works, during its June 21 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale...
View ArticleThe Auctioneer: Bonhams’ Giles Peppiatt on African Art
Having first set up the annual 'The South African Sale' in London in 2007, Bonhams pioneered the first auction dedicated to Modern and Contemporary African Art in London in April 2009, and last year,...
View ArticleHermann Historica’s Spring Auction Achieves Landmark Results
Munich-based Hermann Historica oHG has affirmed its position as one of the leading auction houses for antiquities, antique arms and armour, firearms, and objects of military history with a highly...
View ArticleLyon & Turnbull and Freeman’s Collaborate for Inaugural Hong Kong Auction
Auction houses Freeman’s and Lyon & Turnbull have teamed up to hold their inaugural Hong Kong auction on May 31 at Liang Yi Museum.On offer at the “Chinese Works of Art” auction will be around 150...
View ArticleDatabank: Contemporary in Crisis
Growing expectation of an art market correction centers on overheating in the postwar and contemporary category, but this large group—encompassing Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol, Christopher Wool and...
View ArticleTakeo Yamaguchi Sets New Auction Record at Phillips
Japanese painter Takeo Yamaguchi (1902-83) set a new auction record at Phillips’ 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York on May 8.Yamaguchi’s “Work” (1953), which carried a...
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