Fine Art

Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Le Bouquet, 1910, brought $657,250 as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ American & European Signature® Art Auction, Nov. 8, at Heritage’s Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Bouquet, 1910. Oil on canvas, 17 x 12-1/2 in. Le Bouquet came to Heritage from the family of renowned [Read More]

Sotheby’s London announces that the Old Master and British Paintings Evening and Day Sales on 7th and 8th December 2011 will offer a selection of important works of exceptional quality and rarity, many of which have remained in private collections for decades, including the masterpiece by Jan Steen Card Players in an [Read More]

To coincide with the auction house’s 25-year anniversary, Villa Grisebach was entrusted with the largest number of works of art to date. 1,463 paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and photographs will be auctioned in Berlin in six sales during four days for the first time (from November 23 to 26). Major works by [Read More]

Seoul Auction, Korea’s leading art auction house, will hold its Modern & Contemporary Art sale on 28 November, 2011 at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, presenting approximately 50 outstanding works by leading Western, Korean, Japanese and Chinese artists with a total estimate of HK$195,280,000/ US$25,035,900. Ms Soyoung Lee, Managing Director of Seoul [Read More]

The November 21, 2011 auction of California and American Paintings and Sculpture at Bonhams will offer a wide array of important Western scenes, Plein Air, Society of Six and land and cityscapes. Noted artists represented in the fall sale include Jessie Arms Botke, Maynard Dixon, E. Charlton Fortune, John Marshall Gamble, Frank [Read More]

Two rare works by the celebrated Russian artist Nikolai Roerich are amongst the highlights of the Russian sale, taking place on the 30th November at Bonhams, New Bond Street in London. “The Grand Canyon” (estimate 100,000-150,000 GBP) and “Rocky Landscape” (estimate 100,000-150,000 GBP) depicting breathtaking landscape of the South-West are among a [Read More]

MacDougall’s fine art auctioneers will present Russian paintings, icons and works of art with a total pre?sale estimate of over £16m, on 1 December 2011. Boris Kustodiev, Merchant’s Wife. Estimate: 1,200,000-1,800,000 GBP The sale is led by Boris Kustodiev’s Merchant’s Wife dating from 1923. Kupchikhas, as merchants’ wives are known in Russian, [Read More]

The Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture auction at Christie’s New York on November 30, at 10 am, will lead off with two vibrant landscapes from Oscar Bluemner and Frederic Church, two superb Georgia O’Keeffe paintings and a heroic tableau of Columbus departing for the New World by Emanuel Leutze, the renowned [Read More]

A new world auction record for a work on paper by Henry Moore was set by Bonhams on 16th November in the 20th Century British and Irish Art sale. Entitled Shelter Drawing: Seated Mother and Child, the work sold for £634,850, after much enthusiastic bidding. Executed in 1941, the work had only [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of Latin American Art in New York brought a total of $16,975,750, meeting pre-sale expectations (est. $15.2/20.7 million).* The highlight of the evening was Watermelon Slices by Rufino Tamayo, which exceeded the high estimate to fetch $2,210,500; the work was sold by The Museum of Modern Art, New York to [Read More]

“It is a real sensation for the German art market. Works of such a remarkable nature are usually auctioned in London and New York”, said Robert Ketterer about Hermann Max Pechstein’s masterpiece with painting on both sides, which will be called up in the Munich auction on 10 December. In general, the [Read More]

Sotheby’s London Evening and Day Sales of Modern and Post-War British Art concluded with a combined total of £8.5/$13.5 million. The top lot of the Evening Sale was L.S. Lowry’s Railway Platform of 1953 which sold for £1.1/$1.8 million (est. £1-1.5 million, further details on the painting below). A highlight of the [Read More]

Christie’s Latin American Evening Sale on November 15 achieved $15,333,750/ £9,660,263/ € 11,346,975 and was 83% sold by value and 76% sold by lot. Fernando Botero (Colombian b. 1932), Dancers, bronze with dark brown patina, executed in 2007. Estimate: $1,500,000 – 2,000,000, Price Realized: $1,762,500. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2011. The Head [Read More]

From 5 to 9 December, Koller, the leading Swiss auction house, will present its 12th auction of Swiss art and many further highlights. After the exceptionally successful auction of Swiss Art in June, which, with a total turnover of CHF 14 million and a record result of CHF 7.3 million for two [Read More]

Two trial proofs for Andy Warhol’s iconic image of a dollar sign are for sale at Bonhams Print sale on 29 November in London. The signed prints, estimated at between £15,000- 20,000, date from 1982 – just five years before the artist untimely death – and are based on paintings executed the [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York auction of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture on 1 December 2011 will feature a strong selection works across the diverse genres that the category encompasses, with many of the highlights on offer from distinguished institutions and celebrated collections. Following Sotheby’s 2004 sale of a group of 31 George Catlin [Read More]

Sotheby’s announces Identità Italiana – another section of the same fulfil Private Collection recently successfully presented in London in October which registered many records, such as a 1957 Combustione by Alberto Burri Alberto Burri, sold at €3.627.467. Giorgio Morandi, Natura morta. Oil on canvas, 30 x 45 cm. Eseguito nel 1949. Estimate: [Read More]

Christie’s New York announces details of its major fall Latin American Sale on November 15, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. and November 16, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. This two-session sale of more than 370 lots total is led by significant works from the best-known painters and sculptors of 20th century Central and South [Read More]