Auction Preview: Sale of paintings, jewels, sculptures, furniture and works...
What: The Sale of Ancient, modern and contemporary paintings, jewels and goldsmiths, sculptures, furniture and works of art from the 17th century to the present day at DrouotWhere: Room 9 -...
View ArticleAuction Preview: Sale Arts & Editions: Contemporary Art - Comic Strip - Art...
What: Sale Arts & Editions: Contemporary Art - Comic Strip - Art Deco - Design -Street Art - Photos - Vintage at Leclere - Maison de VentesWhere: Marseille, 5, rue Vincent-Courdouan 13006...
View ArticleAuction Preview: Old Master Paintings (1751) at Tajan, Paris, Dec 19
What: Old Master Paintings (1751)Where: Espace Tajan - 37 rue des Mathurins 75008 Paris, FranceWhen: 19 December, 2.30 pmTop lots of the sale:- Nicolas Poussin (The Andelys 1594-Rome 1665) – The Holy...
View ArticleAuction Preview: Modern Collections at Drouot, Paris, Dec 19
What: Modern CollectionsWhere: 9 Rue Drouot, Richelieu Room 14, 75009 Paris, FranceWhen: 19 December, 2.00 pmTop lots of the sale:- Johan-Barthold Jongkind – Dutch landscape in the moonlight. Oil on...
View ArticleAuction Preview: Adieu 2017: Modern & Contemporary Art at Auction Blue,...
What: Adieu 2017: Modern & Contemporary ArtWhere: Auction Blue, 1,3,6/F Horim Art Center, 317 Dosan-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, KoreaWhen: 21 December, 02.00 KSTPublic Viewing: 15 December, 16...
View ArticleLondon Christie’s
Sculpture stood tall in this sale, topped by the larger-than-life-size Roman marble statue of the Empress Livia, made sometime in the first century A.D. The marble rose above its high estimate of...
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The highlight at this monographic sale dedicated to Fantoni, a leading mid 20thcentury Italian ceramicist, was a pair of lamps from 1960 that sold for €13,572 ($14,400) (est. €2,500–3,500; $2,700–...
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At the two-day, single-collector sale dedicated to the holdings of legendary actress Lauren Bacall, American White Pelican, an 1836 hand-colored engraving by John James Audubon, stepped into the...
View ArticleMacdougall’s Fine Art Auction
A porcelain figurine of Czar Nicholas I—made in the Sipyagin manufactory in Elizavetino, Russia, between 1850 and 1855— ruled the house’s first midseason sale to take place outside the biannual Russian...
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Leading the sale was an oil by Frans Pourbus II 1569–1622)—one of the leading portraitists of the French Court—whose Portrait of Prince Philip William of Orange soared far past its €60,000 ($64,600)...
View ArticleTime All-Stars
WHICH ARTISTS RULE THE AUCTION market over the long run? To gauge their relative success, we analyzed more than 5.2million auction lots over the past 45 years, enabling us to tease out not only who is...
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Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips held five auctions that brought a combined sales total of $17,715,125 for 476 lots, down from last year’s $22.2 million. Nonetheless, auction records were...
View ArticleCampaign Funding
Fund-raising galas are great, but there are just not enough people coughing up $1,000 for a $25 chicken dinner. So how do you go after the mass market of small donors without tote-bag incentives,...
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Six years ago, Pierre Bergé made headlines when he auctioned nearly $500 million worth of art by the likes of Henri Matisse and Thomas Gainsborough that he and his business partner and lover, fashion...
View ArticleCharmed Lives
Tom Burstein, a senior specialist in the international jewelry department at Christie’s, was elevated to head of private sales for the Americas at the house, where, in December 2011, he oversaw the...
View ArticleAuction Preview Analytical Insights-PHILLIPS LONDON:Evening & Day Editions–25...
The Phillips Evening & Day Editions Auction is scheduled on Jan 25, 2018. Last year, the same auction garnered sales of 3.8 Million GBP of 218 Lots. This year, the auction is expected to realize a...
View ArticleAuction Preview: Sale of Evening & Day Editions at Phillips, London, Jan 25
What: The Sale of Evening & Day Editions Where: Phillips, Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino, 3700 W Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas NV 89103, LondonWhen: January 25, 1:00 PM GMT & 6pm GMTPublic Viewing:...
View ArticleAuction Preview: Fine Books and Works on Paper at Forum Auctions, London, Jan 25
What: Fine Books and Works on PaperWhere: Forum Auctions, 220 Queenstown Road, London SW8 4LP, UKWhen: January 25Top lots of the sale:- Verve: Artistic and Literary Review / an Artistic and Literary...
View ArticleAuction Preview: American & European Works of Art at Skinner, Boston, Jan 26
What: American & European Works of ArtWhere: Skinner, 63 Park Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts, USAWhen: January 26, 10.00am GMTTop lots of the sale:- Newell Convers Wyeth (American, 1882-1945. Wallace...
View ArticleBURRI, BUOYED
The market for postwar Italian artist Alberto Burri is sure to get a boost from “The Trauma of Painting,” his first U.S. retrospective in more than three decades, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum...
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