Fine Art

Christie’s announce the sale of The Madoura Collection of Picasso Ceramics – the last ever opportunity for collectors to purchase these works by Picasso directly from where they were made, at the Madoura Pottery in Vallauris, France. The Collection is offered for sale by Alain Ramié, a friend and colleague of Picasso’s [Read More]

Sotheby’s announced that their sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings in Paris on 21 June 2012 will feature a very rare work of art by the most important pastellist of the 18th century, Jean Etienne Liotard. Estimated between 300.000 and 400.000 € (400.000-530.000)*. Jean Etienne Liotard, Portrait of [Read More]

Christie’s announced the forthcoming sale of an outstanding private American collection of Post War and Contemporary Art: The Property from the Pincus Collection. As philanthropists, humanitarians, and art patrons, David Pincus and his wife Geraldine, known as Gerry, enjoyed a collection of Post War and Contemporary art since the early 60s. Notable [Read More]

A stunning painting by L.S. Lowry, entitled Yachts at Lytham St Anne’s is one of the highlights of the 20th Century British and Irish Art sale taking place on the 30th May at Bonhams, New Bond Street. L.S. Lowry, Yachts at Lytham St Anne’s Painted in 1951, Lowry has depicted a peaceful [Read More]

Three previously undiscovered paintings by the celebrated artist Sir Stanley Spencer will be offered by Bonhams in the 20th Century British and Irish Art sale on the 30th May. The three landscapes, all unrecorded in the catalogue of works by Spencer, depict scenes of Cookham, the village where Spencer was born and [Read More]

Sotheby’s are to auction a major work by the modern artist Tamara de Lempicka, on 2 May 2012 in New York, thought to be lost since the 1920s and only recently brought to light, Nu adossé I is a classic example of the artist’s elegant and sensuous aesthetic and was included in [Read More]

Sotheby’s auction of Fine Classical Chinese Paintings brought a total of $35,162,938, totally eclipsing the pre-sale estimate of $9.8/13.7 million. Estimates tumbled throughout the sale and nine lots sold for over $1 million. The auction was led by Emperors of the Southern Song 12th to 13th Century, Calligraphy In Various Script Forms [Read More]

Sotheby’s Scandinavian Sale on Monday, 11 June 2012, features Vilhelm Hammershoi paintings. Four of the paintings depict Hammershøi’s home in Strandgade 30 in Copenhagen, which provided the backdrop for the artist’s most iconic and celebrated works. Together, the group is estimated to bring in excess of £1.45 million. Ida Reading a Letter, [Read More]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong announces that its Southeast Asian Paintings Spring Sale 2012 will take place on 2 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Walter Spies, Banyan with Two Young Balinese, 1927. Est: HK$6.5 –11.5 million / US$840,000 – 1.49 million. Photo: Sotheby’s The sale brings together a substantial selection [Read More]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold its Contemporary Asian Art Spring Sale 2011 on 2 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, presenting a meticulously selected group of contemporary Chinese artworks of great historical importance, among them Bloodline – Big Family: Family No. 2 (Est. HK$25 –35 million / US$3.2 – [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York to auction property from the Estate of Theodore J. Forstmann. A significant group of works will highlight Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 2 May 2012 and includes Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Dora Maar titled Femme assise dans un fauteuil, which exemplifies the artist’s wartime work and [Read More]

Artam Antik A.S, will offer Erol Akyavas’s “I’m the Truth” a monumental canvas dated 1987. (190×360 cm.) The work has a starting price of 600,000 EURO and is expected to have an auction record for a modern work of Turkish art… Olgac Artam, the CEO and the auctioneer, said “the sale is [Read More]

A major work by one of the most important British print makers of the 20th Century is to be auctioned at Bonhams Print Sale at New Bond Street London on 17 April. Speedway (1934) by Sybil Andrews, estimated at £50,000-70,000, is one of the iconic images of the Grosvenor School of printmaking [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 9 May 2012, will include Double Elvis [Ferus Type] by Andy Warhol, a painting that epitomizes the artist’s obsessions with fame, stardom, and the public image. The 1963 work is a seminal piece from the iconic series devoted to the singer and actor that [Read More]

The auction will take place in the firm’s state-of the-art showroom at 1330 St. Charles Avenue. (NEW ORLEANS, La.) – An unusual 19th century American patchwork sampler quilt, a phenomenal Italian carved walnut three-piece parlor suite and outstanding works of art from the estate of Dr. James W. Nelson will be sold [Read More]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold its 20th Century Chinese Art Spring Sale 2012 on 2 April, offering more than 140 lots at a total estimate of HK$160 million / US$20.5 million. This sale includes outstanding modernist, abstract, realist, and photographic works, a veritable epitome of the development of Chinese art in the [Read More]

Bonhams, the international fine art auction house, has announced the appointment of Amelie von Bülow as the company’s new representative in Cologne with immediate effect. For the last four years Amelie has worked as an expert in Contemporary Art for Kunsthaus Lempertz in Cologne where she gained a comprehensive expertise in contemporary [Read More]

Sotheby’s announced the sale of The Gunter Sachs Collection, in London on Tuesday, May 22nd and Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012*, Sotheby’s will present for sale close to 300 artworks and objects from the collection of the late Gunter Sachs. Spanning numerous collecting categories, from Surrealism and Nouveau Realism, to Pop Art, Art [Read More]