Fine Art

Two outstanding portraits by Irish artist Sir William Orpen will headline Sotheby’s sale of British and Irish Art in London on Thursday, 10 May 2012. The company is redesigning its traditional auctions of Victorian and Edwardian Art, and Irish Art and these sales will be retitled British and Irish Art: Victorian/Early 20th [Read More]

Saffronart, the world’s largest online fine-art auction house, will showcase a significant selection of Contemporary Indian artists at their 24-Hour Absolute Auction. The Absolute Auction is defined as an auction with no reserve prices. Initial online bids on each lot will be accepted at US$ 100 or Rs. 5000, no matter the [Read More]

Swann Galleries is to offer an outstanding assortment of more than 430 Vintage Posters at auction on Thursday, February 2. This sale, the first of Swann’s 2012 season, features some exceptional rarities, as well as iconic images from the U.S. and Europe. The auction opens with a selection of approximately 100 rare [Read More]

Works by Belgian artists Felix Labisse, Constant Permeke and René Magritte are to feature in Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art auction on 7th February 2012 at 101 New Bond Street, London, as well as an exciting selection of paintings by Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Raoul Dufy, Marc Chagall, Candido Portinari and Carlos [Read More]

Sotheby’s London Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 8th February 2012, will offer a selection of works of exceptional quality and importance. Highlights include Joan Miró’s monumental Peinture of 1933, estimated at £7-10 million, Gustav Klimt’s recently rediscovered landscape Seeufer mit Birken (est. £6 – 8 million), which has not been [Read More]

Among the highlights of Sotheby’s March 2012 Asia Week sales in New York is one of the most significant paintings by Sayed Haider Raza ever to appear on the market – Village With Church from 1958. The painting was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III from the landmark 1958-59 [Read More]

Clark’s Fine Art of Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles), Calif., will conduct its first auction of 2012, a 270-lot auction of premier modern and contemporary artworks from three significant collections, plus additional select consignments, on Jan 21. Iva Guerorguiva (Bulgarian/American, 20th century), ‘Gasoline the Sunlight,’ 2004, 77 x 87 inches. Provenance: Karl Berg [Read More]

A stunning painting of Notre Dame de Paris by Pablo Picasso highlights Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art auction on 7th February 2012 at 101 New Bond Street, London. Picasso has taken a subject he knows well, via his walks to, and the view from, his studio, but he chooses to challenge the [Read More]

On January 25, 2012 at 2pm, Christie’s will hold a specialized sale, The Art of France, dedicated to 18th century French paintings including a rich selection of works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, among others. That same afternoon, at 5pm, Christie’s will present a sale of Wines of France. Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris), [Read More]

Two paintings by the famed canine artist William Henry Hamilton Trood (1860-1899) will be highlights of the ‘Dogs in Show & Field: The Fine Art Sale’ on 15th February 2012 at Bonhams New York. The first of the works is Hounds in a kennel ($60,000-80,000) and shows a pack of hounds in [Read More]

On 20 January 2012, collectors will have a rare chance to own one of the most sought-after books of ornithological art ever created: a full-size, complete first edition of John James Audubon’s The Birds of America (1827-1838). Christie’s New York will offer in a special sale the sumptuously-bound “Duke of Portland” set [Read More]

Quentin Blake, Angela de la Cruz, Tracey Emin, Ryan Gander, Rankin, Gerald Scarfe, Bob & Roberta Smith and Gavin Turk are amongst the high-profile artists contributing self portraits to the Face Britain project. As well as these artists, a wide range of well known faces from the worlds of film, TV, theatre, [Read More]

Sotheby’s annual auction of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture in New York will take place on 26 January 2012. The morning session of Important Old Master Paintings will offer strong examples across a wide range of styles and genres, from early Italian pictures to Italian Baroque, French Rococo, Dutch 17th century [Read More]

On January 17, 2012 Keno Auctions will showcase a remarkable selection of furnishings comprised of Americana, furniture and decorative arts from the 17 century through to the 20th century. Property from the Important Americana, Paintings, Furniture and Decorative Arts Sale will be sold at 10:00 a.m. that is composed of some dazzling [Read More]

Sotheby’s annual December auctions of Important Judaica and Israeli & International Art brought a combined total of $7,899,939 in New York, led by three exceptionally rare interiors of synagogues by Marc Chagall that together achieved $2,365,500 – well above their cumulative high estimate of $1.6 million*. In all, only six finished oils [Read More]

Max Pechstein’s masterpiece with painting on both sides achieved a sensational result of € 3.500.000* in Ketterer Kunst’s auction of Modern and Contemporary Art. “Thus the work did not only set a new world record* for a painting by the artist, it is also the most expensive work sold in an auction [Read More]

‘Tin Miners’, a fine example of Harold Harvey’s works depicting the industrial side of Cornwall, is to be offered for auction in the 19th Century Paintings sale on Wednesday 25th January 2012, at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. It has a pre-sale estimate of £20,000-30,000. Harold Harvey (1874-1941) was born in Penzance [Read More]

Sotheby’s Paris Evening Auction of Contemporary Art soared above estimate to bring a total of €11, 282,250/$ 15,098,358 (est. € 6,600,000- 9,370,000/ $ 8,832,384 / 12,539,309). There was competitive bidding throughout; all of the lots found buyers and three-quarters of the lots sold above their high estimates. Commenting on his first evening [Read More]