Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips See Definitive Shift in May Sales
A definitive shift in the auction market was obvious in the results of the May sales season in New York that ended on Thursday night. All three major players experienced contractions in sales across...
View ArticleTop 5 Grossers at Story LTD’s Collectible Books Auction
With 80% lots sold, and many achieving more than double the pre-auction estimate, the Story LTD auction of “Collectible Books and Ephemera on Indian Art,” that ended last night could be declared a...
View ArticleChinese Ceramics Take Center Stage at Christie’s Hong Kong
Seven hundred years of Chinese ceramics are going up on the block in a June 1 auction at Christie’s Hong Kong.The sale, Classical Chinese Art From the Sui to the Song Dynasties, will take place at the...
View ArticleSotheby’s Hong Kong Announces ‘Boundless’ Sale Lineup for June 2016
The 78 lots that will feature in the upcoming "Boundless: Contemporary Art" sale, which will take place June 23 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery, have been announced.Included in the sale are art,...
View ArticleChristie’s HK Celebrates Imperial Treasures for June 2016 Sales
As part of Christie’s Asia 30th anniversary celebrations, the auction house has looked into Chinese history for their latest Hong Kong auction — The Imperial Sale and Important Chinese Ceramics and...
View ArticleDatebook: Christie’s Hong Kong Spring Sales
May 28 through June 1, Christie’s presents a series of sales in categories ranging from fine Chinese classical painting and calligraphy to modern and contemporary art. Lots destined for the block...
View ArticleElton John’s Painting by Warhol and Basquiat May Raise More Than $1 Million...
Elton John may raise more than $1 million with the sale of a painting executed by both Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.The work, jointly owned by the British singer and his husband David Furnish,...
View ArticleLiterati Playthings and Ceramic Screens at Sotheby’s HK this June
The whimsical extravagance of Chinese literati culture from a bygone era will take center stage at Sotheby’s Hong Kong Chinese Works of Art sales in early June.A particular highlight of Sotheby’s June...
View ArticleKim Whan-Ki Leads K Auction’s Modern and Contemporary Sale in Hong Kong
An iconic late work by painter Kim Whan-Ki headlines K Auction’s Korea-focused sale of modern and contemporary art May 29 at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, which organizers have estimated will bring in...
View ArticleFocus Pakistan at Bonhams’ May 27 South Asian Art Auction
The most unusual thing about the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art auction being held by Bonhams in London today is that the table is being led not by a work by VS Gaitonde, SH Raza or Tyeb...
View ArticleKorean Masters Set New Auction Records at Christie’s Hong Kong
Postwar Korean art led the pack at Christie’s Asian 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in Hong Kong on May 28.Two significant world auction records were set for artists Yun Hyong-Keun...
View ArticleAuctioneer Insight: Bruno Jaubert AND 5 French Auction Houses
Associate Director of Modern Art at the Paris-based auction house Artcurial, Bruno Jaubert joined the Impressionist and Modern Art department when the firm was founded in 2002. Since then he has...
View ArticleInk and Antiquities Shine at Christie’s '30 Years: The Sale'
Christie’s much-anticipated “30 Years: The Sale,” which celebrated the three-decade mark of its Asia-based operations, proved to be a most auspicious milestone for the venerable auction house in Hong...
View ArticleSteady Demand for Dansaekhwa Continues at K Auction
Results for K Auction’s Hong Kong sale on May 29 hinted that demand for Dansaekhwa — a Korean monochrome painting style — continues to be strong.Fetching a total of HK$51,395,773 (US$6,616,289), with...
View ArticleModigliani’s Portrait of Tragic Lover May Fetch More Than $40 Million at...
A portrait by Amedeo Modigliani of his lover Jeanne Hébuterne may fetch more than $40 million at Sotheby’s in London.The portrayal of the painter’s loyal muse, which has been hidden in a private...
View ArticlePakistani Masters & Undervalued Indian Masters Strike Big at Bonhams South...
At the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art Auction by Bonhams that concluded in London recently, the most important result that threw itself up — and which all watchers of South Asian art must...
View ArticleAmrita Sher-Gil, Souza, Subodh Gupta Top Draws at Saffronart’s June 8 -9 Auction
An untitled landscape by Amrita Sher-Gil, painted during one of the many holidays she spent in the Hungarian village of Zebegény on the banks of the Danube, is the top draw at the Saffronart Summer...
View ArticleArtcurial Sets New Auction Record for Marcel Duchamp
Paris-based auction house Artcurial set a new world auction record for a painting by Marcel Duchamp during its June 6 Impressionist and Modern Art sale in Paris. Duchamp’s “Nu sur nu (Nude on Nude),”...
View ArticleRare 19th Century Aboriginal Artwork Breaks Auction Record
Bonhams has set a new auction record for 19th century Victorian Aboriginal artist and Wurundjeri elder William Barak (1818-1903) during its June 7 sale in Sydney. Fresh to the market and previously...
View ArticleChristie’s to Offer Moore’s 1951 Festival of Britain Masterpiece
Henry Moore’s “Reclining Figure: Festival” will lead the sculpture section of Christie’s 250th anniversary “Defining British Art” sale in London on June 30. Commissioned by the Arts Council for the...
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