Fine Art

Christie’s announce the recent discovery of a previously unrecorded 17th masterpiece by the Dutch master of Mannerist sculpture Adriaen de Vries (1550-1626): a bronze Mythological Figure Supporting the Globe, which is estimated to realise between £5 million and £8 million when it is sold in The Exceptional Sale of Decorative Arts on [Read More]

Sotheby’s London sale of South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art twill take place on the 31st May 2011. Comprised of 62 lots, several with unprecedented provenance, the auction is expected to fetch in excess of £2.8 million. Highlighting the sale will be works by Sayed Haider Raza. His Bindu is an important [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of Latin American Art in New York on 25 and 26 May 2011 will showcase a range of Latin American painting and sculpture from the continents’ most important artists including exceptional works that are fresh to the market and in some cases have been recently re-discovered. Major works by Wilfredo [Read More]

Swann Galleries April 28 auction of Old Master through Modern Prints saw active bidding from collectors and dealers in the saleroom and via telephone. As a result, 10 new auction record prices were achieved for individual prints and portfolios. The sale’s top lot was Marc Chagall’s Bible, 1931-39, with 105 etchings, one [Read More]

Sotheby’s auction of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture at in New York, on 19 May, will be led by important works from the Collection of Edward P. Evans. A well-known member of the equine community, Mr. Evans’s collection features a range of 19th- and 20th-century paintings, with a particular emphasis on American [Read More]

Christie’s two-week sales series devoted to important Impressionist, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art totaled $556,944,875 (£338,398,139/€384,154,653) and yielded average sell-through rates of 87% by lot and 90% by value. These results underscore Christie’s position as market leader for the major spring sales series in the Americas. The next round of auctions in [Read More]

While the Cropsey oils are expected to be the May 15th highlight, the auction will consist of over 450 lots consigned from estates in the greater New York area including Brooklyn Heights, the West Village, West End Avenue, Riverdale, Larchmont, Rye, Scarsdale and Greenwich CT. Other fine art in this auction are [Read More]

Christie’s announce Frank Weston Benson’s Eleanor and Benny (estimate: $3-5 million), an important example of the artist’s highly personal style of American Impressionism will highlight its upcoming auction of Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 18 May 2011, at 10 am. Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951), Eleanor and Benny, signed ‘F.W. Benson.’ [Read More]

A wonderful collection of 47 Snaffles images gathered over many years by a Yorkshire personality, Lt Col Bill Weightman, will be sold at Bonhams Knowle on May 24th. “Images of horse racing, country life and military life are all well represented in this once in a lifetime collection,” says Mark Jones, Bonhams [Read More]

The power and depth of the Charles Martignette Collection of Illustration Art continued to exert its influence on May 4 in the form of Gil Elvgren’s Gay Nymph, 1947, which brought $286,800 – a World’s Record price for the artist – against a $60,000+ pre-auction estimate–in Heritage Auctions’ $3.409+ million Signature® New [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York will auction works by important American artists and genres, spanning Impressionism, Modernism, 19th Century Paintings and Western Art, on 19 May. The sale is highlighted by two important private collections: Property from the Collection of Edward P. Evans, featuring works by American Impressionist and Ashcan School artists, and Property [Read More]

Sotheby’s will present a highly selective sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in Paris on 1 June 2011. This prestigious sale pays homage to the most notable artistic trends of the 20th century, Surrealism and Cubism, and offers major works by such great modern artists as Joan Miró, André Masson and Alberto [Read More]

Bonhams is pleased to announce that as part of its Annual Scottish Sale in August it will be offering an outstanding collection of paintings by the Scottish Colourists. Works by all the major artists of the Colourist movement are featured, including ‘Peony Roses’,an important picture by S J Peploe, estimated at between [Read More]

As well as being a well known poet, Edward Lear (1812-1888) was also a prolific artist. The next 19th Century Paintings auction at Bonhams New Bond Street features a beautiful topographical scene of Bethlehem which Lear completed from sketches he made whilst travelling in the Middle East. It is estimated to sell [Read More]

Sotheby’s two-part sale of The Collection of Allan Stone, brought a total of $54,805,500, well above the pre-sale high estimate of $46.8 million, and was 93% sold by lot. The auction was held 50 years after the founding of The Allan Stone Gallery and celebrated the artists represented and collected by this [Read More]

Sotheby’s London Sale of 19th Century European Paintings on Wednesday, 18 May, 2011 will bring together some 163 works by artists from no fewer than 15 countries: among them Spain, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Italy, France, Switzerland, Britain, Israel, the Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, and South America. Among the distinct categories of pictures [Read More]

Sotheby’s Amsterdam will offer at auction on Tuesday 17 May 2011 Marie-Antoinette (1986) by the German artist Anselm Kiefer (1945). Kiefer’s Marie-Antoinette was a gift to designer and interior decorator Benno Premsela from the famous Dutch furniture designer Martin Visser . Premsela received the present work for his help with the negotiations [Read More]

A portrait of François Roques, the first outside artistic advisor to the renowned Fashion House Hermès, will be offered in the Russian Sale on 8th June at Bonhams, New Bond Street. Painted by Marie Vassilieff in 1930, the portrait is estimated to sell for £50,000 – 80,000. During the 1920s François Roques [Read More]