Fine Art

Alberto Giacometti’s (1901-1966) Diego en chemise écossaise, estimated at $30—50 million, will lead Christie’s November 5 Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York. This painting is among the most compelling renderings Alberto ever produced of his brother Diego, his most frequent and by now signature subject. Diego en chemise [Read More]

New York: Keno Auctions is pleased to announce that the last work painted by Willem de Kooning will be sold at its October 30 auction, 127 East 69th Street. Hidden for 25 years, the oil –on- canvas is conservatively estimated at $80,000- 120,000 and has been consigned by Grace Tafe, the artist’s [Read More]

Christie’s London announce the sale of 20th Century Decorative Art + Design, to take place on 30 October 2013. The auction will offer discerning collectors the opportunity to acquire furniture from the home of two of Britain’s most significant Post-War designers, Robin and Lucienne Day, together with avant-garde furniture designed by Gerrit [Read More]

Christie’s is proud to announce the rediscovery of an important Japanese hanging scroll-painting, Jigoku dayu [Hell Courtesan] by the eccentric yet brilliant artist Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-89) (estimate: £300,000-500,000). Believed lost for over half a century and known only from two black and white images taken in 1911 and 1942, the painting has [Read More]

Rago Arts and Auction Center seeks works by Bucks County, Pennsylvania Impressionist and Modernist Artists for its Fine Art Auction. Consignments are being accepted now through September 24 for the sale, which will take place on Saturday, November 16. Each Fine Art sale offers works from well-known Bucks County, Pennsylvania artists, sought [Read More]

Bonhams November 5 Impressionist and Modern Art auction will feature a masterpiece by Camille Pissarro, the pivotal Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist master. Le Jardin de Maubuisson, Pontoise, la Mère Bellette is estimated to fetch $1,500,000 to 2,000,000. The picture dates from 1882, at the end of a 10 year period during which the [Read More]

Art specialists from Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, will host a two day valuation event in Co. Derry-Londonderry this month (17th and 18th September) in a bid to unearth hidden art gems in the Ulster area. Visiting specialists Charles O’Brien (19th Century Painting) and Matthew Bradbury (Modern British & Irish [Read More]

Christie’s is to auction a private collection of the complete editions from the first 50 volumes published by Parkett, the Swiss based journal of Contemporary Art, which will be offered in the Parkett: First Fifty Editions 1984-1997 (Vol. 1-50/51) auction on Thursday, 26 September 2013. The fascinating collection, produced from 1984 to [Read More]

On September 17, Christie’s New York present The Art of Nandalal Bose, Abanindranath Tagore, and Rabindranath Tagore: The Collection of Supratik Bose, a single-owner sale of 81 exceptional modern Indian works of art. These works are coming to the auction market for the very first time from the collection of Supratik Bose, [Read More]

A selection of ceramics created by Pablo Picasso will feature in the Impressionist and Modern Art Sale on 23rd October at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Designed by the artist in the 1950s, the group includes plates, bowls, vases, ashtrays and pitchers modeled in ceramic and terracotta. Estimates are attractive, ranging from just £500-£700 to [Read More]

Highlighted by a selection of long lost masterpieces that have been brought back to public view, the auction will showcase colonial, impressionist and modern paintings. Featured in the sale is Russell Drysdale’s great portrait of Old Larsen (estimate: £550,000-650,000, illustrated above), a headline piece offered that returns to Christie’s forty-two years after [Read More]

Gil Elvgren’s picture-perfect pinup Bare Essentials, a 1957 Brown & Bigelow calendar painting, sold for $137,000 in its auction debut in Heritage Auctions’ $1.3 million Illustration Art event in Dallas. The July 31 auction was led by a bevy of pinup images — with Elvgren sharing just one of the auction’s five [Read More]

Julien’s Auctions has announced the rare sale of an original mural from controversial graffiti artist Banksy. Banksy’s “Flower Girl,” which formerly occupied a Los Angeles gas station wall will headline Julien’s Auctions “Street Art” auction to take place Thursday, December 5, 2013 in Beverly Hills. This rare opportunity to own one of [Read More]

Quality consignments are currently being accepted for a fine art auction slated for Thursday, Oct. 24, at Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, in the firm’s gallery located at 354 Woodmont Road in Milford. Up to 250 works of art, spanning many genres, will come up for bid. Shannon’s conducts two fine art auctions [Read More]

A vibrant oil on canvas of “Wind Swept Pines” on the California Coast by Guy Rose took the top lot spot in Bonhams $2.47 million auction of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture, August 6 in Los Angeles, simulcast in San Francisco. The painting achieved far more than its $150,000-250,000 estimate, bringing [Read More]

The small fishing town of Wick at the northern end of Scotland in Caithness has been captured by L.S. Lowry in this large work which is estimated to sell for £500,000 to £800,000 at Bonhams next sale of Modern British and Irish art on 20 November in London’s New Bond Street. The [Read More]

On Saturday, September 14, 2013 Trailside Galleries of Jackson, WY and Scottsdale, AZ, in partnership with the Gerald Peters Gallery of Santa Fe, NM are pleased to present the seventh annual Jackson Hole Art Auction at the Center for the Arts in downtown Jackson Hole. The annual live auction has quickly become [Read More]

A major work by the 18th century French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Portrait of François-Henri duc d’Harcourt, will be on public view at the newly opened Bonhams Geneva office, at 10 rue Etienne-Dumont, 1204 Geneva. Viewing will be from Tuesday 24th September until Thursday 26th September, from 9am to 6:00pm. Victoria Rey-de-rudder, [Read More]