Fine Art

The greatest and most horrific monsters, aliens and giant mutated creatures in the history of cinema, including Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man, will be on the block as part of Heritage Auctions’ July 16-17 Signature® Vintage Movie Poster sale at the company’s Dallas headquarters, 3500 Maple Avenue. “Collectors will have a [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of Old Master and British Drawings on July 7th and 8th 2011 in London will present for sale a range of important drawings from the 16th to the 19th centuries. In addition to works by artists Hans Bol, Jacopo Ligozzi, Joseph Mallord William Turner and John Constable, a remarkable highlight [Read More]

‘Hollywood’, a rare screen print by the celebrated American artist, Ed Ruscha, whose 50 year career was the subject of an acclaimed 2009 retrospective exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery, is one of the leading items at the Bonhams Print sale in London on 12 July. The print, a representation of one of [Read More]

Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Sale brought £108,803,550 / $174,129,201 /€120,923,897 – in excess of pre-sale expectations (estimate: £74-105 million) and establishing the highest total ever achieved for any sale of Contemporary Art in London. Buyers from 14 countries participated in the auction, which achieved remarkable sell-through rates of 89.8% by lot [Read More]

Sotheby’s Paris, sale devoted to Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings, yielded €7.6m – the highest total for a sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings by Sotheby’s France to date, including three world records. The sale’s highest price of €1,241,252/$1,773,492 was paid by a French buyer [Read More]

Sotheby’s London Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale, on 6th July 2011, will offer a selection of newly discovered and important works of exceptional quality and rarity, many of which have remained in private collections for decades. Estimated to reach a total in excess of £31 million, the auction of 73 [Read More]

Christie’s fine art auctioneers will offer a selection of works from the collection of Kay Saatchi at the Post-War and Contemporary art auctions in London on 28 June, 2011. The collection features an outstanding and rare group of early works on paper by Lucian Freud, executed in the 1940s, Ron Mueck’s Big [Read More]

Christie’s will auction a drawing made by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes at its Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolours sale on July 5. This enchanting drawing was numbered by Goya himself as sheet 37 of an unbound series of pages, commonly called Album E or the Black Border Album [Read More]

Paintings by Wu Guangzhong, one of China’s most important contemporary artists, headline the biggest and most valuable sale to date at Surrey’s premier auctioneers Ewbank Clarke Gammon Wellers. The three-day Summer auction is on June 29, 30 and July 1. Leading the sale are six works on paper by Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) [Read More]

Sotheby’s is to auction the oil study A Bearded Man with Hands Raised by Sir Anthony Van Dyck (estimated at £200,000-300,000) in its 6th July 2011 sale of Old Master and British Paintings. The work, depicting a bearded man with his torso uncovered, was painted when the great 17th Century Flemish artist [Read More]

Three works by Joan Miró one of the greatest Surrealist painters are to be auctioned at Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art sale on Tuesday 21st June, New Bond Street, London. The three works all display the signature striking style of the artist, and have attracted pre-sale estimates to tempt a range of [Read More]

Sotheby’s suction of The Hascoe Family Collection of Important Czech Art on June 13 brought a Grand Total of 11,103,903 GBP (18,032,738 USD) (303,326,131 CZK), beating the pre?sale estimates. Commenting on the sale results, Tessa Kostrzewa, Deputy Director of European Paintings at Sotheby’s London, and Filip Marco, Head of Sotheby’s Prague Office, [Read More]

On the 29th June, Bonhams will include a hidden self portrait by L.S Lowry in the 20th Century British Art sale in New Bond Street Group of People with the Artist is estimated to sell for £100,000 -150,000 and was executed in the same year as Lowry staged his seventh one-man show [Read More]

Phillips de Pury & Company, announces highlights from the upcoming June Contemporary Art Evening and Day auctions. Highlights of the Contemporary Evening sale are on show now at Phillips de Pury & Compay’s new space, 45-47 Brook Street at Claridge’s London. The sales will feature important modern and contemporary works across multiple [Read More]

Portrait Has Descended through the Same Family for Over 200 Years and Has Been Known as the “Confesseur de Rubens” Sotheby’s has announced that it will sell a newly discovered portrait by the great 17th Century Flemish painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck in its 6th July 2011 sale of Old Master and [Read More]

A work by Bauhaus master Josef Albers, Study for Homage to the Square: Stucco Setting, 1958, brought $262,900 as the top lot in Heritage Auctions’ $1,552,954 Signature® Modern & Contemporary Art Auction, providing the principal fireworks in an auction that saw strong prices realized across the board for a wide array of [Read More]

Sotheby’s Amsterdam sale of 19th Century European Painting brought €1,586,925 ($2,312,848), within pre-sale expectations (est. €1.5 – 2 million). The auction achieved sell- through rates of 46.9% by lot and 69.2% by value, and set three new artist records. The highest price achieved was for Winter in the Streets of a Dutch [Read More]

An oil painting entitled ‘The three-masted English merchantman Integrity in two positions in the Saint Lawrence River arriving at Montreal’ will feature in the Old Master Paintings auction on 6th July at Bonhams, New Bond Street, London. Any painting which incorporates a named merchant vessel in British North America and which can [Read More]