MacDougall’s fine art auctioneers will present Russian paintings, icons and works of art with a total pre?sale estimate of over £16m, on 1 December 2011. Boris Kustodiev, Merchant’s Wife. Estimate: 1,200,000-1,800,000 GBP The sale is led by Boris Kustodiev’s Merchant’s Wife dating from 1923. Kupchikhas, as merchants’ wives are known in Russian, [Read More]
Daily Archives: November 19, 2011
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Swann Galleries October 18 auction of Fine Photographs offered 20th-century images, iconic examples of photojournalism and contemporary art. Several auction records were set. The sale’s top lot was Berenice Abbott’s dazzling Retrospective Portfolio, with 50 large-format silver prints, including the artist’s celebrated New York City views, 1930-60, printed 1982, which brought a [Read More]
Sterling Associates has announced its inaugural Fall Estates Sale on Dec. 3. Sterling Associates auction debut represents a new way in which estate antiques and art may be brought to auction. It combines a live preview in an auction-house setting with absentee and remote forms of bidding that make the auction accessible [Read More]
The Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture auction at Christie’s New York on November 30, at 10 am, will lead off with two vibrant landscapes from Oscar Bluemner and Frederic Church, two superb Georgia O’Keeffe paintings and a heroic tableau of Columbus departing for the New World by Emanuel Leutze, the renowned [Read More]
Christie’s announces an important sale of Antiquities on December 7, at 10 am, offering over 225 lots, led by several exceptional works of Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman art, plus Near Eastern and European antiquities, along with some fine examples of Nordic Neolithic stone tools. The sale is expected to exceed $18 [Read More]