YBA Greats Donate to Goldsmiths Charity Auction
An impressive list of Goldsmiths College alumni have donated artworks to a charity auction to raise funds for the new Gallery at Goldsmiths. The works, by the likes of Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst,...
View ArticleChristie’s Announces Record Art Sales of £5.1bn
Auction house Christie’s has announced record global art sales for 2014 of £5.1 billion, an increase of 12% ($8.4 billion, up 17%) on 2013. According to Christie’s, the record figure is the result of...
View ArticleChristie’s and ArtStack Launch First Crowd-Sourced Auction Initiative
Auction house Christie’s has joined forces with ArtStack, the world’s first art social media platform, to launch the first crowd-sourced auction initiative.This groundbreaking partnership embraces new...
View ArticleBonhams to Offer Groundbreaking Degas Ballet Scene
Bonhams is auctioning Edgar Degas’s groundbreaking 1885 oil on canvas, “Scène de ballet,” in its Impressionist & Modern Art auction on February 3, 2015. The work will be sold at the Bonhams New...
View ArticleVerdigris is Key: A Crash Course in Collecting Weather Vanes
The humble weather teller has been around since ancient times — the earliest recorded vane took the form of the Greek god Triton and adorned a tower in Athens in the first century B.C. In Colonial...
View ArticleSluice Seeks Support with Benefit Art Auction
London-based not for profit arts organisation Sluice__ is auctioning a fantastic catalogue of works on Paddle8 as part of its biennial fundraiser. The auction will help support Sluice__ into the future...
View ArticleHighlights from Masters Week: Sotheby's New York
On January 28 in New York, Sotheby’s kicked off Masters Week with the sale of Old Master Drawings. The offerings attracted buyers from Europe and the United States, which resulted in 157 out of 201...
View ArticleSotheby's Imp/Mod/Surrealism Sale Breaks All London Records
LONDON — In a sale studded with top-class works, Sotheby’s racked up the highest ever tally for any London auction on Tuesday night, as 63 works of Impressionist, modern and surrealist art fetched...
View ArticleRobust Sales at Christie’s Impressionist/Modern and Art of the Surreal Evening
LONDON — The seemingly unstoppable strength of the global art market continued its serial buying surge at Christie’s Impressionist/Modern and Art of the Surreal evening sale, tallying...
View Article“1 in 11” Fundraising Auction at Sotheby’s London
Sotheby’s London is hosting a major fundraising auction on February 12 in support of the “1 in 11” campaign to extend educational opportunities to marginalised children in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and...
View ArticleAnother Green Light for the Market at Sotheby’s London
Dominated by a huge and richly chromatic Gerhard Richter abstract painting, Sotheby’s lead-off contemporary evening sale on Tuesday signaled another green light for the global art market and brought...
View ArticleA Strong Showing at Christie’s London
The art market juggernaut continued its seemingly unstoppable ride as Christie’s London Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale snared an effortless £116.7/$177.8 million tally. Only five of the 62...
View ArticlePhillips’s Tidy Little Evening Sale
Fireworks were scarce at Phillips’s contemporary evening sale, coming at the tail end of a long week of auction action dominated by giants Christie’s and Sotheby’s. Still, the firm sold £17.7/$26.9...
View ArticleVintage NASA Photos Head to Auction in London
Bloomsbury Auctions is selling an incredible collection of vintage photographs by NASA’s pioneering astronauts in London on February 26. The selection of photographs, taken in space and on the moon, is...
View ArticleContemporary Sculpture Collection at Shapiro Auctioneers
Shapiro Auctioneers is offering a superb collection of Australian contemporary sculpture in its February 25 Contemporary Art and Sculpture auction in Sydney. Selling as The Collection of a Gentleman,...
View ArticleGaitonde, Amrita Sher-Gil To Lead Sotheby’s South Asian Art Auction
Amrita Sher-Gil, the best known enigma of modern Indian art, was a star while she lived, and a star even after death. Now, 73 years after she passed away in December 1941 a few weeks short of her 29th...
View ArticleA Mughal-e-Azam Lobby Card Is The Top Draw At Story LTD Auction Today
A lobby card of one of the most iconic films of Hindi cinema (when it was not known as Bollywood) – Mughal-e-Azam (1960) is the leading lot at the Story LTD’s online sale titled, “Best of Indian Cinema...
View ArticleSotheby's to Sell A Complete Set of The Brown Sisters by Nicholas Nixon
On April 1, Sotheby’s New York will sell a complete set of The Brown Sisters by Nicholas Nixon, an artist known for producing intimate, black and white documentary photography.The Brown Sisters is one...
View ArticleDandelions and Sonambients: Harry Bertoia's Sculptures Find Their Audience
“A decade ago, if you mentioned Harry Bertoia, people would say, ‘He’s just a chair designer,’ without realizing that he spent only two years making chairs,” muses Jim Elkind of New York-based Lost...
View Article“The Internet Has no Borders”: Q&A with Artusiast’s Timo Niemeyer
It has been a busy year-and-a-bit for Timo Niemeyer, the CEO of Artusiast, a website launched in December 2013 as an art sales platform for a select group of auction houses and galleries.Under his...
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