Fine Art

Sotheby’s Evening Sales of Contemporary Art and 20th Century Italian Art, including ‘Italian Identity’ – an important private collection – brought the combined total of £39,456,950/$62,081,566/€45,048,011 against the pre-sale estimate of £34,982,000-48,338,000 – in excess of the total achieved for the equivalent sales last year (£34 million). A total of six artist [Read More]

Christie’s announces it has been selected to offer Property from The Collection of Lew and Edie Wasserman as part of its major fall sales in New York City. Assembled largely in the 1950s and 60s by the “king and queen of Hollywood,” the collection includes several seldom-seen works by important artists such [Read More]

Sotheby’s will present Abstraction-Figuration: A Private Collection, a remarkable offering of paintings that thrive in the fertile space between abstraction and figuration. The collection is led by one of the most important groups of works by Gerhard Richter ever to appear at auction, which will be among the highlights of the Contemporary [Read More]

Tiancheng International Auctioneer Limited will offer Monumental Head of Pierre de Wissant (Pierre de Wissant, tête colossale), a bronze head sculpture in colossal form by the legendary Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) at Tiancheng International’s inaugural auction on November 28th in Hong Kong. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Monumental Head of Pierre de Wissant , bronze, [Read More]

Christie’s New York announces the auction of an exceptional selection of Pop Art masterpieces at its Post-War and Contemporary Sale on November 8, 2011. The constellation of major works to be offered will include stars such as Roy Lichtenstein’s I Can See the Whole Room…and There’s Nobody in It!, Andy Warhol’s Silver [Read More]

Christie’s announces its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on November 1 will be led by Edgar Degas’ Petite danseuse de quatorze ans, the most celebrated sculpture to have emerged from the Impressionist era. With its unflinching realism, bold and unconventional combination of materials, and staunch rejection of idealized grace, Petite danseuse [Read More]

Bonhams announce 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. The sale is led by works from the 19th century and highlighting the group is “The Trysting Place” by British painter [Read More]

Sotheby’s annual autumn auction of Important Russian Art in New York will be held on 1 November 2011. In response to persistent demand for rare and historic works with exceptional provenance, the sale will offer 26 museum-quality masterpieces spanning important genres in Russian art, from 19th century paintings to the early avant-garde [Read More]

Bonhams sale of Islamic and Indian Art on October 4th at New Bond Street attracted stiff competition for the best items, boosting prices way beyond pre-sale estimates. The cover lot, A 16th century Iznik bottle flask from a private Belgian collection, estimated to sell for £60,000 to £80,000 made £184,850. This important [Read More]

An important painting by Frank Auerbach entitled E.O.W., Nude on Bed is one of the highlights of the 20th Century British and Irish art sale, taking place on the 16th November at Bonhams New Bond Street. Estimated at £500,000- 800,000, the painting has been consigned from a North American Institution and has [Read More]

The first printed depiction of one of the most famous buildings in the world, the Taj Mahal, was sold for £31,250 today (October 4) at Bonhams ‘India and Beyond: Travel and Photography’ sale in London. It had been estimated at £30,000-35,000. It is included in a volume of aquatint views of India [Read More]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn 2011 Sale of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings achieved HK$82.8 million / US$10.6 million, more than doubling the presale estimate (HK$33 million / US$4.2 million*), and achieving the Second Highest Sale Total For A Various-Owner Sale Of This Category At Sotheby’s Hong Kong. Hendra Gunawan, Tuak Manis [Read More]

Coinciding with Gerhard Richter’s Retrospective at Tate Modern (October 2011 to January 2012), Christie’s is to offer five definitive works by the artist in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 14 October. The group is led by the artist’s seminal Kerze (Candle) painted in 1982, which has not been seen [Read More]

SOTHEBY’S SCANDINAVIAN SALE on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 will be headlined by Interior with Ida in a White Chair by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916). Estimated at £500,000-700,000, the painting is one of the most important works by the artist ever to be offered at auction and comes to the market from a Private [Read More]

Phillips de Pury & Company announces the highlights from its London Contemporary Art auctions. The Evening auction will feature 36 lots with a low estimate of £10,060,000 /$15,938,000 and a high estimate of £14,600,000 /$22,111,000. The Day auction will comprise of 256 lots with a low estimate of £4,351,500/$6,273,300 and a high [Read More]

Sotheby’s fine art auctioneers have announced the sale of a group of works from the collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem across a series of sales throughout the upcoming autumn and winter auction seasons, in both New York and London. The group will be led by works in the New York sales [Read More]

Sotheby’s auction of Important Russian Art on 1 November 2011 will be led by Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin’s Pearl Mosque at Delhi, the most accomplished painting from the artist’s famed Indian series and his most significant canvas to appear at auction in over a century (est. $3/5 million*). The monumental work – measuring [Read More]

Ketterer Kunst are to auction a rare painting by Willem I van de Velde on 27 October. With Willem I van de Velde’s grisaille-work ”Englische Kriegsschiffe“ (English Warships) a masterpiece of marine painting will be offered at Ketterer Kunst in Munich. ”This means that a painting by the presumably most renowned 17th [Read More]