Fine Art

Sotheby’s Victorian & Edwardian art sale on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 will be headlined by Waiting to Cross by Albert Moore (1841-1893). Estimated at £300,000-500,000, the painting was the artist’s only contribution to the Grosvenor Gallery exhibition of 1888. It comes to auction following the success of the exhibition The Cult of [Read More]

An important Surrealist-inspired painting by Ed Ruscha is among the many highlights to be offered in Christie’s sale of Post War and Contemporary Art at Rockefeller Center on November 8. Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish, painted in 1965, is estimated to fetch $3 to $4 million. Strange Catch for a [Read More]

Sotheby’s Victorian & Edwardian art sale on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 will include a collection of six works by Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) which come to the market from a Private Collection. With a combined pre-estimate low estimate of just over £200,000, the group comprises oils, a sculpture and a watercolour. Although [Read More]

Christie’s will mark another significant milestone in the auctions of Asian 20th century & contemporary art. Previously sold in a separate category, Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art will be integrated into the Asian 20th century & contemporary art sale, enjoying a new level of international exposure when placed alongside the art [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 9 November 2011, will be led by masterpieces by Clyfford Still, Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon and Mark Rothko, among others. Four paintings by the celebrated American Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still come from the Estate of Patricia Still and are being sold by the City [Read More]

Two spectacular western paintings by W.R. Leigh, Home Sweet Home, 1932 and Renegade at Bay, 1941, are estimated to bring in a combined $700,000+ when they are offered as part of Heritage Auctions’ Nov. 5 Art of the American West Signature® Auction, at the company’s Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. The [Read More]

Bonhams announces its sale of European Paintings, October 26 in New York, simulcast to San Francisco. The sale will feature a wide range of paintings spanning several centuries and artistic periods. Nicolae Grigorescu, “The Bull Cart. Estimate: $100,000-150,000. Photo: Bonhams A highlight to the sale comes from Romanian artist Nicolae Grigorescu. “The [Read More]

Sotheby’s London announces its first Evening Auction of Modern and Post-War British Art on Tuesday 15h November 2011. The sale comprises 37 lots and is estimated to reach a combined total of £7.2 – £10.8 million. The auction features remarkable works by artists including Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood, to be sold [Read More]

Christie’s announces the upcoming sale of an outstanding private American collection of Modern and Contemporary Art: Property from a Distinguished West Coast Collection. Remarkable for the extraordinary quality, rarity and iconic status of its works, the collection boasts masterpieces by René Magritte, Georgia O’Keeffe, Hans Hofmann, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miró, Kees Van [Read More]

Bonhams present a striking selection of well-known artists in various media in the Modern & Contemporary Art auction on November 7. Taking place in New York, this auction boasts 116 lots across a variety of price points that will appeal to a wide array of bidders, both private and trade. Sharon Goodman [Read More]

A private collection of over 100 paintings by the ornithological artist J. C. Harrison are to be offered for auction on Wednesday 25th January 2012, at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. The works are from the collection of the renowned wildlife photographer Terry Andrewartha who worked for the Anglia TV programme Survival [Read More]

The Sunny View Youth Involvement Association raised $140,000 through a unique fundraiser – an art auction at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital that featured the art of kids with disabilities, some unable to speak and with limited mobility. The funds raised during the Able Artists Auction will support the Expressive Arts Program [Read More]

Bonhams will be auctioning the Harriet Szechenyi Collection of Japanese Art in New Bond Street, London, on the 8th November. Much like the author Edmund de Waal in his memoir “The Hare with the Amber Eyes”, Harriet Szechenyi was fascinated in building a unique collection that had passed from hand to hand, [Read More]

Contemporary dance company Armitage Gone! Dance will benefit from the sale of artworks by seven major contemporary artists at Christie’s New York on November 9, 2011. The lots will form a prominent part of the auction house’s much watched Post War and Contemporary morning session. The artists participating in the special tribute [Read More]

Watermelon Slices, a major work by Rufino Tamayo depicting one of his signature themes is to be among the highlights of Sotheby’s auction of Latin American Art in New York on 16 November 2011. The painting is being sold by The Museum of Modern Art in New York to benefit the Acquisitions [Read More]

Antik A.S., will auction exceptional paintings by the most important Modern & Contemporary Turkish Artists. The auction will take place on October 22, 2011 at the Swissotel the Bosphorus and will present selected 175 lots among the finest which ever to have appeared on the market for the first time. Special collection [Read More]

Several paintings from the collection of one of the UK’s first abstract expressionist painters, Frank Avray Wilson (1914-2009), are to be sold by Bonhams as part of its Contemporary Two sale at Knightsbridge on Knightsbridge Wednesday 19 October. Hans Hartung (German, 1904-1989) Untitled 1948 signed and dated 48 mixed media on brown [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York sale of 19th Century European Art on 4 November 2011 will offer a number of rare opportunities for collectors across diverse collecting categories. The auction will be a showcase for the best of the eclectic artistic styles that flourished throughout the 19th century: Barbizon school, Academic realism, Belle Époque [Read More]