Fine Art

Bonhams hosts its next sale of South African Art in London, on October 25-26, following two sales which have seen world record prices achieved for works by leading local artists. Heading the line up for this sale is a stunning Irma Stern, ‘Watussi Woman’, from the early 1940s, when Stern was at [Read More]

The August 9, 2011 sale of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture at Bonhams & Butterfields offered a wide array of important Western scenes, Plein Air, Society of Six and landscapes and cityscapes. Simulcast to San Francisco, the highly-anticipated auction brought more than $2.28 million and featured artists such as E. Charlton [Read More]

One of the finest paintings by Robert Gemmell Hutchison, possibly the best loved of Scottish artists, is for sale at the Annual Scottish Sale at Bonhams, Edinburgh on Wednesday 31 August. It has an estimate of £120,000-180,000. ‘Sea Gulls and Sapphire Seas’ was painted in 1909 and represents the artist at the [Read More]

Two rare and important watercolours by George French Angas are to be auctioned at Bonhams Australian Art sale on 22 August at Byron Kennedy Hall, Sydney. One shows the departure of Sturt’s third and final expedition from Adelaide, while the other depicts the first Royal Adelaide Show. They are estimated to fetch [Read More]

Bonhams new Contemporary Art Department announce the sale of a highly important work by one of the most influential Italian artists of the 20th century, Alighiero E Boetti (1940-1994), in the Department’s inaugural sale on 13 October 2011. Attracting a pre-sale estimate of £1,200,000 – 1,800,000 and entitled 1984, this monumental piece [Read More]

The finest group of Colourist paintings to be auctioned in Scotland in a generation is on view in Glasgow at the Blythswood Square Hotel, Glasgow on 3rd August prior to their sale in Edinburgh on the evening of 31st August. At the sale’s heart is a private American collection which is coming [Read More]

This September, the highly anticipated Macmillan De’Longhi Art Auction will be held at the prestigious Mayfair auction house, Bonhams. Now in its fifth year, the aim of the auction is to raise a significant amount of money to help Macmillan to reach and improve the lives of everyone living with cancer. Macmillan [Read More]

A capacity crowd of over 600 buyers of Western Art filled the Grand Ballroom of the Silver Legacy Resort in Reno on July 23, 2011 for the 26th annual Coeur d’ Alene Art Auction. In what has long been the single largest event in the field of Classic Western Art, prices soared [Read More]

On July 28, Gray’s Auctioneers will be auctioning lot 177, a rare Civil War painting from1865 entitled ‘Our Flag is There’. The signature is indecipherable however the Gray’s appraisal team has discovered a sketch by Thomas Nast which was featured on the cover of Harper’s Weekly, February 13, 1864. The sketch is [Read More]

artnet Auctions achieved a world record for the sale of an Andy Warhol 1978 painting entitled Flowers, which sold for US$1,322,500 (Premium), on Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1978. Acrylic and silkscreen inks on canvas, 22 x 22 in. Est. US$1,100,000–1,500,000. Sold for US$1,322,500 Premium The buyer was a private [Read More]

The August 9, 2011 sale of California and American Paintings and Sculpture at Bonhams & Butterfields will offer a wide array of important Western scenes, Plein Air, Society of Six and land and cityscapes. Noted artists represented in the summer auction include E. Charlton Fortune, Granville Redmond, Fredrick Remington and Arthur Grover [Read More]

One of the highlights of The Marine Sale at Bonhams will be an exciting and previously unknown watercolour of ‘H.M.S. Terror and one of her boats off a spectacular iceberg, apparently in the Davis Strait, between Canada and Greenland.’ This remarkable work is estimated to sell for £10,000-15,000 when it is offered [Read More]

An outstanding collection of works by Archibald Thorburn sold for fantastic prices in the 19th Century Paintings auction at Bonhams New Bond Street On Wednesday 13 July. A new world record for the artist was made with the highlight of the collection – the magnificent Peacock and Peacock Butterfly fetched £252,000, more [Read More]

Sotheby’s have announced that its Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 2 November 2011 in New York will be led by one of the most accomplished and celebrated landscapes created by Gustav Klimt. Litzlberg am Attersee (Litzlberg on the Attersee) is a dramatic view of the lush environs of Lake Attersee [Read More]

Sotheby’s have announced the sale of a remarkable group of works by British artists on behalf of The Dartington Hall Trust, to be sold as part of Sotheby’s sale of 20th Century British Art on Wednesday, 16th November, 2011. The works, comprising paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and ceramics by artists including Ben [Read More]

On Wednesday, August 3, Swann Galleries will conduct a two-session auction of Vintage Posters, which features a wonderful assortment of summer resort and beach posters from around the world, World War I and II propaganda posters, and the ever-popular Mather Work Incentive posters. The sale opens with a selection of more than [Read More]

The Haight-Ashbury Collection of original hand-crafted psychedelic art, original 1960s rock posters, including original work by the biggest names in the genre – artists Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse, David Singer and Victor Moscoso, among the many – will be offered as part of Heritage Auctions’ July 29 Signature® Music & [Read More]

A striking and brilliantly conceived poster for the 1934 Aldershot Tattoo, designed by the celebrated printmaking team Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power, is for sale at the Bonhams Print Sale on 12 July. The Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo, to use its full name, was a huge national event in the inter-war years [Read More]