Sotheby’s to Exhibit Middle Eastern Art in London
Sotheby’s New Bond Street Galleries in London is hosting an exhibition of highlights from the upcoming auction of Contemporary art that is set to take place in Doha, Qatar on October 13, 2014. The Doha...
View ArticleMagnus Renfrew To Move from Art Basel to Bonhams as Deputy Chairman Asia in Sep
Magnus Renfrew, who has been heading Art Basel in Hong Kong, is moving to Bonhams in September to take on the role of deputy chairman, Asia and director of fine arts, Asia.For Renfrew, this is a return...
View ArticleSculpture Takes the Spotlight at Sotheby’s
In a rare double-whammy of art market fortune, Sotheby’s will be offering two 20th-century masterworks of breathtaking sculpture at its November 4 evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art.The...
View ArticleModernists lead yet again at Sotheby's South Asian art auction; Tyeb Mehta...
Tyeb Mehta, the modern Indian artist credited with triggering the art boom in the country with a record auction price achieved in 2002, has topped the charts yet again. At the Modern and Contemporary...
View ArticleSotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips Court Frieze Week Collectors
It appears that all three houses are taking a broader view of what they can offer, apart from back-to-back auctions, during the jam-packed Frieze Week. The events seemingly aimed at attracting art...
View ArticleChristie’s Kicks Off Frieze With the Essl Collection
LONDON — Christie’s kicked off events for Frieze Week with what it said was London’s most valuable auction ever of a private post-war and contemporary art collection.Sales came to £46.9 million, or...
View ArticleChristopher Wool’s Birds Lead Phillips Inaugural Sale at Berkeley Square
LONDON — A large-scale Christopher Wool painting fetched the top price at the inaugural auction by Phillips at its new London headquarters building in Berkeley Square.Phillips benefitted from Frieze...
View ArticleDoig’s Tropical Painting Leads Christie’s Big Frieze-Week Sale
LONDON—After its Essl Collection sale on Monday kicked off the Frieze-week frenzy, Christie’s returned on Thursday night with its main event of the week.Peter Doig’s first tropical painting led a...
View ArticleAll-White Manzoni Leads Sotheby’s Frieze-Week Sale
LONDON – White was the new black on Friday, as Sotheby’s sold Piero Manzoni’s “Achrome” (1958-59) for £12.6 million, the highest amount for any work sold at auction during Frieze Week.The price,...
View ArticleRare Vase Leads Bonhams Sale of Roy Davids Collection
LONDON — A porcelain vase from the Kangxi Period (1662-1722) that unusually depicts women taking part in the “four elegant accomplishments” befitting Chinese scholar gentlemen will head Bonhams sale of...
View ArticleAuctions in Brief: London
Christie’s LondonOctober 13: Essl: 44 Works43 lots sold for £46,861,500 ($75.4 million)Top Lot:Gerhard Richter’s Wolken (Fenster) (Clouds (Window)), 1970, sold for £6,242,500 ($10 million), within the...
View ArticleNapoléon’s Bicorne at Auction for 1st Time in 40 years
A bicorne that belonged to Napoléon I will be the star lot at a two-day auction of Napoleon memorabilia from the collection of the Prince’s Palace of Monaco.The black felt hat with two horizontal...
View ArticleAuctionata Expands to New York, Furthers Its Global Reach
On Thursday, October 23, online auction company Auctionata will broadcast the first auction from their newly acquired New York offices, officially marking their expansion into the United States. Though...
View ArticleTop 10 Lots in 2014 Asian Art in London Auctions
Asian Art in London, an annual ten-day celebration of the finest Asian art, returns in 2014 from October 30 – November 8, bringing together more than 60 of the world’s top dealers, auction houses, and...
View ArticleOn the Block: What to Look for at Auction in November
With the global art market continuing to perform like a race-proven thoroughbred, this season offers a number of blue-chip trophy contenders, led by a fabulous, rare-to-market Alberto Giacometti bronze...
View ArticleAuctions in Brief: Old Master Sales in London
Sotheby’sLondonOctober 29, 2014Old Masters103 lots sold for £672,250 ($1.1 million)Bidders at the house’s revived autumn mid-season sale of Old Master & British paintings showed keen interest in...
View ArticleSotheby’s Evening Sale — The Chariot of Fire
Turbo-charged by two 20th-century sculpture masterworks, Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern evening sale racked up a record $422,110,000, the firm’s highest tally in its long history.That said, 15 of...
View ArticleManet Steals the Show at Christie's
An Impressionist-era painting by Edouard Manet starred in an otherwise modest Impressionist and Modern evening sale on Wednesday that tallied $165,635,000.The Manet's higher-than-expected...
View ArticleBonhams' Impressionist and Modern Art Sale
Bonhams New YorkNovember 4, 2014Impressionist & Modern Art45 lots sold for $4,143,975 Taking first place at this sale of Impressionist and Modern art was Henry Moore’s 27-inch bronze Working Model...
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