Sotheby’s New York announce that it will present for sale three exceptionally rare oil paintings of synagogue interiors by Marc Chagall (1887-1985). In all, only six finished oils of synagogues by the artist are known to exist. These three paintings come to market for the first time in 66 years from a [Read More]
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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]
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]
Spectrum Wine Auctions’ Second Anniversary Auction will take place December 3 & 4 at 11:00 a.m. HKT at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong Hotel. All registered bidders are invited to celebrate the auction with a Champagne brunch featuring pours of Krug and Cristal, starting promptly at 11:00 a.m. HKT both days. The [Read More]
A new world auction record for a work on paper by Henry Moore was set by Bonhams on 16th November in the 20th Century British and Irish Art sale. Entitled Shelter Drawing: Seated Mother and Child, the work sold for £634,850, after much enthusiastic bidding. Executed in 1941, the work had only [Read More]
Sotheby’s announces the sale of an Unknown Manuscript Notebook by celebrated Bengali poet and artist, Rabindranath Tagore on 13 December 2011 in New York. Dating to the fall of 1928, the notebook contains twelve poems and lyrics for twelve songs in Bengali, some being heavily amended drafts of subsequently published works. Tagore [Read More]
An intimate portrait of Julia Jackson by British photography pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), one of the highlights of Bonhams Photographs Sale, realised an impressive £57,250 today (17 November) at the auction house’s New Bond Street saleroom. One of around fifty known portraits by Cameron of her niece, the earliest dating from [Read More]
(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the #1 wine auction house in America, will hold an exciting auction of Finest and Rarest wines on December 10th at award-winning restaurant TRU, located at 676 North St. Clair Street in Chicago. The impressive sale will feature U.S. private cellars and includes The [Read More]
Sotheby’s sale of Latin American Art in New York brought a total of $16,975,750, meeting pre-sale expectations (est. $15.2/20.7 million).* The highlight of the evening was Watermelon Slices by Rufino Tamayo, which exceeded the high estimate to fetch $2,210,500; the work was sold by The Museum of Modern Art, New York to [Read More]
There are watches and there are Rolex watches. The world famous Swiss manufacturer of high quality luxury watches was founded in 1905 under the name ‘Wilsdorf and Davis’ by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis. The trade name ‘Rolex’ came to fruition around 1908 and the rest is history. A long line of [Read More]
The auction will be held in the firm’s showroom, located at 1015 Julia Street in New Orleans. (NEW ORLEANS, La.) – Over 1,100 lots of mostly fresh-to-the-market items – culled from prominent local estates and collections and spanning a wide variety of categories – will be sold on Saturday, Dec. 3, by [Read More]
“It is a real sensation for the German art market. Works of such a remarkable nature are usually auctioned in London and New York”, said Robert Ketterer about Hermann Max Pechstein’s masterpiece with painting on both sides, which will be called up in the Munich auction on 10 December. In general, the [Read More]
Boston, Mass – Skinner, Inc, New England’s only full service auction house, will host a sale of fine jewelry at their Boston gallery on December 6th, 2011. Sale highlights feature a number of beautiful art deco pieces including the cover lot: a Chaumet emerald, ruby and diamond pendant brooch estimated to sell [Read More]
Christie’s Hong Kongwill present Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on Wednesday, 30 November at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. The sale, estimated in excess of HK$600 million /US$80 million, brings together over 400 works of exceptional quality and with excellent provenance, as well as special collection 15 exceptional [Read More]
United Country Bonnette Auction Company is to auction 8,029 acres in Hackberry, La on Thursday, December 15, 2011, at 1pm CST. Located at 900 Shell Western Drive in Hackberry, one mile North of Sabine refuge, bordering Black Lake to the West and one half mile South of the intercoastal waterways in Cameron [Read More]