Bonhams will be participating in Asia Week 2012, which brings together a variety of art outlets to celebrate Asian art from China, India, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia. Bonhams will highlight this week with three previews and auctions located at its New York headquarters at 580 Madison. The Indian, Himalayan [Read More]
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Sotheby’s New York will auction Fine Classical Chinese Paintings, on March 22, 2012, the debut sale of this category in Sotheby’s New York March Asia Week series of events. The auction will include a rich and varied selection of fine paintings and calligraphy dating from the 12th century to the 20th century. [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York sale of contemporary art exceeded its pre-sale high estimate of $11.6 million in achieving a strong total of $12,040,750, which marks the highest result for a mid-season sale of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s since spring 2008. The auction was 79.7% sold by lot, and was led by the Untitled [Read More]
Collector enthusiasm for the works Gil Elvgren remains undiminished as the great illustrators’ work dominated the top 10 lots of Heritage Auctions’ $3,000,000+ March 3 Illustration Art Signature® Auction, led by Vision of Beauty (Unveiling), 1947 (Realized: $140,500) and Let’s Eat Out, 1967(Realized: $104,500), both of which come from the continually prolific [Read More]
Christie’s announces the sale of The Pieter & Olga Dreesmann Collection of Dutch Old Master Paintings was part of the Old Master & British Paintings Evening Auction on Tuesday 3 July. Adriaen Coorte, Asparagus and Red Currants on a Plinth. Estimate: £1.4 million to 2 million. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2012. The [Read More]
Christie’s New York will offer 190 works in the spring sale of Japanese and Korean Art, including screens, ceramics, lacquers, bronzes and armors. Japanese highlights include a pair of six-panel screens from the Momoyama period and an incense burner dating to the Edo period. A 19th century eight-panel screen, porcelain jar, and [Read More]
Sotheby’s London biannual sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints will take place on Thursday, 29 March 2012. Superlative examples by pre-eminent artists who are leaders in the print-making field span a period of over 500 years, from the Renaissance through the Dutch Golden Age to the Pop Generation and beyond. [Read More]
Christie’s announce the spring auction of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art taking place on 21 March, New York. Tyeb Mehta Untitled (Figures with Bull Head). Estimate: $1,500,000–2,000,000. Juxtaposing modernism with a strong contemporary perspective, the sale presents an exhilarating array of works by celebrated modern masters; Tyeb Mehta, Akbar Padamsee, Syed [Read More]
Southern California auction house Clark’s Fine Art announces a March 10 sale with artworks, quality furniture and decorative art. The 310-lot sale features several important West Coast consignments, including artworks from the collection of trailblazing entertainment columnist Rona Barrett. Proceeds from the sale of the Barrett collection will benefit The Rona Barrett [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company launches its Spring Photographs season with a single-owner sale titled The Face of Modernism: A Private West Coast Collection. Comprised of 28 lots, this single-owner collection provides a glimpse into a pivotal moment in the evolution of photography: when the soft-focus images of Pictorialism gave way to [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company announced highlights from its New York Contemporary Art Evening auction. The Evening auction will take place on 8th March 2012 at 450 Park Avenue , New York . The auction will comprise 37 lots with a pre-sale low estimate of $4,720,000 and a high estimate of $6,900,000. [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York will auction Untitled Film Still #21 by Cindy Sherman as a highlight of the Contemporary Art auction (est. $150/200,000). The iconic 1978 image from the celebrated series sees the artist cast herself as a modern 1970s businesswoman surrounded by the urban jungle. Sherman is widely recognized as one of [Read More]
Sotheby’s Sale of Contemporary Art on 9 May 2012 will feature Roy Lichtenstein’s Sleeping Girl from 1964 (36 x 36 in., 91.5 x 91.5 cm) – one of the high-points of the artist’s comic book inspired paintings and an icon of Post-War American art. The sexy blonde women of the comic book [Read More]
A spectacular early 20th Century landscape by Alson Skinner Clark (1876-1949), Shore by the Saint Lawrence (October Bouquet), 1916, is expected to bring $ 175,000+ when it crosses the block as a principal highlight of Heritage Auctions’ inaugural California Art Signature® Auction, March 20, in the company’s Beverly Hills salesroom. “This work [Read More]
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction realised the exceptional total of £50,688,450/ $79,672,106/ €60,719,674, surpassing presale high expectations (estimate: £35.8-49.7 million*). The auction established extremely strong sellthrough rates of 90.5% by lot and 94.6% by value and saw two artist records at auction set for A. R. Penck and Albert Oehlen. Buyers from [Read More]
Feeding the chickens to be on show in Bonhams new Dublin office on Friday 24th February Walter Frederick Osborne R.H.A, R.O.I (1859-1903) was the most important Irish artist of his generation, and an outstanding example of his work is to be offered for auction as part of the 19th Century Paintings sale [Read More]
Christie’s evening auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art totaled £80,576,100 ($126,504,477 / €96,127,287) selling 95% by value and 89% by lot. This is the 2nd highest total for the category at Christie’s London. The top lot of the sale was Francis Bacon’s Portrait of Henrietta Moraes which sold for £21.3 million. Combined [Read More]
A stunning image from one of Irma Stern’s trips to Zanzibar which inspired some of her best work, titled ‘The Pink Sari’, signed and dated 1947, and with its original Zanzibar frame ,will be sold by Bonhams in London on March 21st for an estimated £800,000-1,200,000. Never before seen on the open [Read More]