Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, including the first part of the Peter Norton Collection, achieved $247,597,000 (£153,510,140/ €178,269,840) demonstrating the continuing appeal of this category among collectors worldwide. Thirty-three works sold for over the $1 million mark and 16 new world auction records were established for artists including Roy Lichtenstein, [Read More]
Fine Art
926 posts
A group of four paintings by the celebrated American Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still have just sold for a combined total of $114.1 million (est. $51/71.5 million) in Sotheby’s sale of Contemporary Art in New York. The group was led by the exquisite and profoundly important 1949-A-No. 1 – one of the greatest [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company’s Contemporary Art Part I totals: $71,292,500, selling 94 % by value and 85% by lot in a lively and packed auction room. The Contemporary Art Benefit auction for the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation totaled $2,682,000, selling 93% by value and 95% by lot. “We were very happy [Read More]
The Kitchen is holding a benefit art auction November 15 on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York. Participating Artists Include: Michele Abeles, David Adamo, Kathryn Andrews, Polly Apfelbaum, Cory Arcangel, Erica Baum, Dike Blair, Alexis Callender, Paul Chan, Aaron Curry, Moyra Davey, Tim Davis, Lucky [Read More]
Turner Prize nominated artist Karla Black has hand painted and signed three beautiful linen bags for her exhibition for Scotland + Venice at the Venice Biennale 2011. These signed artworks will be auctioned off via silent auction with the proceeds going towards the Glasgow Project Room. The Project Room is a non-profit [Read More]
A one-of a-kind half sheet movie poster to RKO’s 1932 thriller The Most Dangerous Game, starring Joel McCrea, Fay Wray and Leslie Banks as the evil hunter, is expected to bring more than $25,000 when it comes to auction as part of Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 18-19 Vintage Movie Poster event, with more [Read More]
Swann Galleries’ November 17 auction of American Art & Contemporary Art offers outstanding unique works and prints by choice American artists and those working in the late 20th century. The Contemporary Art portion of the auction features some highly desirable prints by Andy Warhol, including his 1967 color screenprint of Marilyn Monroe, [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company announces the highlights from its Latin American Contemporary Art auctions. The Evening auction will feature 33 lots with a low estimate of $5,935,000 and a high estimate of $8,205,000. The Day auction will comprise of 104 lots with a low estimate of $1,099,000 and a high estimate [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York 19th Century European Art auction brought $19,373,250, with spirited bidding from an international pool of buyers competing for the impressive range of lots on offer. “Buyers in today’s sale were international private collectors, many of whom are assembling first rate collections of 19th Century European masterpieces,” commented Polly Sartori, [Read More]
Sotheby’s London announced the sale of Gustav Klimt’s recently rediscovered masterpiece of 1901 Seeufer mit Birken (Lakeshore with Birches), which is estimated to fetch £6-8 million/ $10-13 million and will be offered as part of the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, 8th February, 2012, in London. A work of haunting beauty [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York auction of Important Russian Art brought $17,636,500, with five works selling for more than $1 million and three works exceeding $3 million. Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova, Street in Moscow, 1909, titled, numbered and inscribed in Cyrillic (on the reverse), oil on canvas, 25 1/2 by 31 in., 65 by 79 [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York, Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale achieved a strong $199,804,500, well within the overall pre-sale estimate of $167.6/229.9 million and eclipsing the total for the same sale in May 2011. The auction was 81.4% sold by lot, and saw a total of 39 works sell for over $1 million. [Read More]
Sotheby’s sale of European Paintings on Tuesday, 22 November, 2011 will bring together some 242 works comprising Spanish Painting, The Scandinavian Sale, The Greek Sale and German, Austrian and Central European Paintings, and encompasses prime works by Sorolla, Hammershøi, Peterssen, Egger-Lienz, Moralis, Ralli and Sykora. The auction is estimated to bring in [Read More]
Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale achieved $140,773,500 (£88,687,305/ €102,764,655), with three works of art selling above the $10 million mark. Despite spots of selective bidding throughout the sale, Surrealist works and modern sculpture performed well overall, and buyers competed aggressively for rare works and those offered fresh to the market [Read More]
Christie’s announces it has been selected to present the sale of Property from the Collection of John W. Kluge Sold to Benefit Columbia University, a large and wide-ranging collection of artwork, furniture and decorative arts that will be offered for sale in several major auctions, starting with four important sculptures by Henry [Read More]
Swann Galleries’ auction of Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & The New York School on Thursday, October 27 offered approximately 140 prints and other works by Stanley William Hayter and the artists he taught and inspired through his work at the Paris Atelier, and later in New York. Jackson Pollock’s Untitled drypoint and [Read More]
With an overall result of more than € 2,6 million* in the October Ketterer Kunst auctions, the autumn season saw quite a promising beginning. “34 percent new bidders alone in the section of Old Masters and Art of the 19th Century – almost 10 percent more than in spring – once more [Read More]
A previously unknown portrait by the Spanish artist Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660) will be the highlight of the Old Master Paintings auction on Wednesday 7th December 2011 at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London. The work is a portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, in a black tunic and white [Read More]