Fine Art

One of the iconic images of the Swinging Sixties by the artist Richard Hamilton, who died recently, is for sale at Bonhams Print Sale in London on 29 November. ‘Release’ shows Mick Jagger and Hamilton’s art dealer Robert Fraser handcuffed together in the back of a police car shielding their faces from [Read More]

Swann Galleries’ autumn auction of African-American Fine Art on October 6 features many exciting discoveries—significant works by important artists that were previously unrecorded or never exhibited. The earliest piece in the sale is one of these recent findings, an Untitled (Landscape) oil on canvas painting by Robert S. Duncanson. This large example [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York announces that it will offer Property from the Collection of Edward P. Evans across a series of sales this autumn in both New York and London. Furniture and decorative arts from the Collection will comprise the single-owner sale of Property from the Collection of Edward P. Evans in New [Read More]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese Art Autumn Sale 2011 will be held on 3 October, offering a meticulous selection of over 140 lots estimated at HK$190 million / US$24.4 million*. Curated along thematic lines, the auction will present two special sessions – Female Artists of 20th Century China and The Art [Read More]

Christie’s is to present two remarkable photograph sales , in October, comprised of important works by eminent photographers such as Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank. In addition to the various owners Photographs sale, Christie’s will offer The American Landscape, Black and White Photographs from the Collection of Bruce and Nancy [Read More]

Christie’s New York presents its mid-season sale of Fine American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, featuring an excellent selection of 19th and 20th century works at prices ranging from $2,000 to $120,000, on September 27. Highlights include exceptional works by Norman Rockwell, George Inness, John Marin and Samuel Johnson Woolf, as well as [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York week of Asian Art sales concluded this morning with Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art which brought $2,262,000 (est. $2.6/3.8 million).* This brings the combined total for the weeks three sales to $31,447,375. The auction was led by the cover lot Eglise by SH Raza. The painting comes from [Read More]

MacDougall’s auctioneers have announced that its forthcoming Russian Art Auctions will be headlined by Merchant’s Wife, an exceptional masterpiece by Boris Kustodiev. The painting is estimated at £1,200,000?1,800,000, and will be among the top lots of London’s fall 2011 Russian week. Boris Kustodiev, Merchant’s Wife. Estimate: £1,200,000-1,800,000 Merchants’ wives, or Kupchikhas as [Read More]

Love is a strong theme running through the next sale of South African Art at Bonhams on October 26th in London. It is evident in all three works by the country’s major artists, Stern, Pierneef and Preller. With Pierneef this emotion is evident in his powerful evocation of a landscape he loved [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York sale of Classical Chinese Paintings, the company’s first dedicated sale in this field for more than a decade, realized the superb total of $6,467,000 (est. $2.6/3.7 million). The auction, which saw more than 87% of the sold lots achieve sums in excess of their pre-sale estimates, established a strong [Read More]

Bonhams auctioneers is to join forces with the Pakistan educational charity, Pakistan Rising, to help raise much needed funds for primary schools in Pakistan. Ten of Pakistan’s finest artists have donated work for the auction which takes place at 6.45pm on 3 October at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London. Pakistan Rising [Read More]

Bonhams has announced a sale of Fine Prints, October 25, 2011 in San Francisco, and simulcast to Los Angeles, the auction will feature a wide range of lithographs, woodcuts, etchings and screenprints spanning myriad centuries. The sale is led by a brightly-colored lithograph of “Ambassadeurs, Aristide Bruant,” 1892, by French Post Impressionist [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York has announced it will auction The Collection of Allan Stone Volume III, on 23 September 2011. The sale of property from the renowned New York dealer follows two exceptionally successful auctions in May 2011. Just as in those sales, this offering is made up of outstanding examples by the [Read More]

Freeman’s auctioneers have achieved another extraordinary success when a ‘double dragon’ white jade seal realized over $3.5 million, making it the highest selling lot in the biannual Fine & Decorative Asian Arts auction. The Qing Dynasty seal was sold to a bidder in the room by auctioneer and head of Asian Arts [Read More]

A set of the very earliest photographs of Burma taken by the British Victorian photographer, Linnaeus Tripe, are for sale at the India and Beyond: Travel and Photography sale at Bonhams in London on 4 October. This very scarce volume is estimated at £70,000 – 90,000. Linnaeus Tripe was a British army [Read More]

Ketterer Kunst in Munich has announced the sale of German Avant-Garde paintings on 28 October. Max Schwimmer (1895 Leipzig – 1960 Leipzig), Herbstlandschaft, 1920. Watercolor and charcoal drawing This year’s offering focuses on works made from around 1900 up into the late 1930s. It will be lead by Hans Michaelson’s oil painting [Read More]

Sotheby’s London announce that its Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Thursday, October 13, 2011, will be headlined by Boy’s Head of 1952 by Lucian Freud (1922-2011) depicting Charlie Lumley, one of Freud’s most immediately- recognisable subjects from this seminal early period in his oeuvre. This oil on canvas transmits a remarkable psychological [Read More]

Fourteen leading international artists have donated major photographic works of Venice to be sold at auction in aid of Venice in Peril on 3 November 2011 at Phillips de Pury & Company, London. The artists were invited to photograph Venice to create a collection of new images of the city as part [Read More]