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Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Sale on Monday, 28 June, 2010 will offer a remarkable Yves Klein work, “RE 49, Relief Eponge Bleu”, which comes to auction from the collection HypoVereinsbank. This work is one of exceptionally few large-scale blue “Relief Eponge” works remaining in private hands and was created at the [Read More]

Some of the biggest names in photography recently joined forces to support auction house Christie’s and the first ever Green Auction “A Bid To Save The Earth” charity event. To coincide with the recent 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 18 of the most celebrated names in photography collaborated to create an impressive [Read More]

Skinner, Inc.’s Boston gallery will offer on May 15th some of the most interesting American Indian & Ethnographic Art to go on the block in some time. The auction features just shy of 650 works, some pieces dating back thousands of years. Represented are Pre-Columbian, Tribal and American Indian artifacts. American Indian [Read More]

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – An exceptional cataloged multi-estate auction featuring hundreds of fresh-to-the-market lots in a broad range of categories – period furniture, antique clocks, vintage lighting, and more – will be held Saturday, May 22, at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, in the firm’s spacious gallery facility, at 1485 West Housatonic Street in Pittsfield. [Read More]

Christie’s London announces an unprecedented sale of works of art selected from the Estate of Francis Newton Souza to take place on 9 June 2010 as part of the South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art auction. Comprising over 150 lots created throughout the artist’s career – from the late 1930s through to [Read More]

Fine arts auctioneers Bonhams & Butterfields will offer American and European prints on May 4, 2010, a simulcast auction to be held in its San Francisco and Los Angeles salesrooms. As many as 340 lots will be offered, including rare and desirable etchings, lithographs, woodcuts and screenprints — and featuring an Albrecht [Read More]

Regions of Italy, Spain and New World represented in impressive sale BOSTON, Mass. – Skinner, Inc., one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, will host its spring auction of Fine Wines on May 13tht at 6 p.m. in its Boston gallery at 63 Park Plaza. The sale, [Read More]

Fascinating photographs of London Women’s Pub Outings in Battersea and Clapham taken by Scottish photographer Grace Robertson in the 1950s are being sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Photographs on 20 May 2010. The four images follow a group of women on a series of pub [Read More]

Christie’s Hong Kong announces its Spring sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art will take place on 30 May at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Featuring over 130 quality works spanning the history and geography in the Southeast Asian region, the sale brings together modern masterpieces of undisputed provenance [Read More]

On 12 May 2010 Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art sale will offer works by some of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Brice Marden, among many others. The sale presents an interesting survey of the key artistic schools [Read More]

Gray’s Auctioneers presents its first Fine Printed Books Auction, to be held Thursday May 6, 2010 at 1 pm, in which travel guides, illustrated books, art books, modern first editions, and sets are all well-represented. Among the highlights of the sale is a third edition of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece Frankenstein, being [Read More]

On 18 June 2010 Sotheby’s New York will offer for sale John Lennon’s autograph Lyrics for A Day In The Life – the revolutionary song that marked the Beatles transformation from pop icons to artists. The double-sided sheet of paper in Lennon’s hand is complete with cross-outs, corrections, reworkings, and chronicles the [Read More]