Fine Art

Christie’s fine art auctioneers has announced the sale of the Estate of Ernst Beyeler, the late Swiss art connoisseur who was one of the greatest art dealers, collectors and curators of our time. The sale, which will include art works Ernst and his wife Hildy lived with at their private home as [Read More]

Sotheby’s have announced that its forthcoming summer Contemporary Art Evening Auction in London will be led by Crouching Nude, an important masterwork by the renowned British artist Francis Bacon (est. £7-9 million / $10-15 million)* which has never before been offered at auction. The 1961 oil on canvas, which is one of [Read More]

On the 24th May 2011, Bonhams and Montefiore Auction Houses launch their inaugural sale of Israeli art in London. Bonhams has teamed up with Montefiore Auction House, Tel Aviv, to offer a selection of works that covers nine decades. This auction is set to be the most comprehensive sale of Israeli art [Read More]

A masterpiece by Victorian artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema set another incredible price at Sotheby’s New York today in the sale of 19th Century European Art. Two determined phone bidders held a steady competition for The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra: 41 BC for over eight minutes, driving the final price to a [Read More]

On March 5th, 2011, auctioneer/owner Ronan Clarke of Clarke Auction had provided his company’s premises, and along with other local appraisers, volunteered his expertise for an antiques appraisal day to benefit the Larchmont Historical Society. While over a hundred people over four hours paid up to forty dollars apiece to have their [Read More]

Sotheby’s will auction one of the most important oils by Austrian artist Egon Schiele ever to come to the market, on 22 June in London. The painting – Häuser mit bunter Wäsche,“Vorstadt” II of 1914 – ranks among just a small number of significant cityscapes by Schiele remaining in private hands. Having [Read More]

A new world auction record has been set for the French artist Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), at Christie’s New York The vividly-hued 1905 landscape, a fitting tribute to springtime in New York, sold for $22,482,500 (£13,489,500/€15,063,275). The magnificent Fauvist landscape – a highlight of the pre-sale exhibition – was fought over by [Read More]

A magnificent 1850 still life by German-born American painter Severin Roesen, Still Life with Fruit and Flowers in a Landscape, is expected bring more than $600,000 as the central highlight in Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Fine American, European Art & Western Art Auction on Tuesday, May 17 at the company’s Design District Annex, [Read More]

Bonhams presents an attractive selection of well-known artists in various media in the Modern and Contemporary Art auction on May 9. Taking place in New York and simulcast to Los Angeles, this bi-coastal auction boasts 165 lots across a variety of price points that will appeal to a wide array of bidders, [Read More]

Christie’s Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art Spring Auction on 30 May, at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, presents distinctive highlights from some of the most vibrant and invigorating voices within Southeast Asia’s art scene. Featuring 115 works spanning the history and geography of the Southeast Asian region, the sale [Read More]

Sotheby’s Amsterdam on Tuesday, 10th May, 2011 features A school class with a sleeping schoolmaster by Dutch Golden Age Artist Jan Steen (1626-1979). This painting may be regarded as one of Jan Steen’s finest treatments of a schoolroom interior. Furthermore, it is thus far his only known representation of a schoolroom that [Read More]

Sotheby’s London has announced that it will offer for sale The Duerckheim Collection, a collection of the most significant and defining German Art of the 1960s and 1970s ever to come to market, in the forthcoming Contemporary Art Auction Series in June. This collection represents a remarkably detailed and complete survey of [Read More]

On May 10, 2011, Bonhams will present 170 lots of stunning photography from famed artists Hiroshi Sugimoto, Edward Weston, Richard Misrach, Ansel Adams, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton and Garry Winogrand during its Fine Photographs auction in New York. This photographs sale will be simulcast in three cities—New York, San Francisco and Los [Read More]

Christie’s African and Oceanic Art department have announced the Paris sale of a major piece of Central Polynesian art originating within the triangle formed by the Society, the Austral and the Cook Islands. The very rare Ohly figure is estimated between 600,000 and 800,000 euros. There is a small corpus of extant [Read More]

Bonhams New York auction of American Paintings, Drawing and Sculptures will take place May 24th, consisting of 98 lots. This season’s sale includes several notable works by Impressionist artists such as John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, James Carroll Beckwith, Ernest Lawson and Maurice Brazil Prendergast to name a few. Alan Fausel, Director [Read More]

The BAT ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Part Two, realised a total of €2,941,725 / £2,582,732/ $4,198,489, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €1 million. Presale interest had been huge and more than 500 clients had registered to bid in tonight’s sale – either in person, [Read More]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong announces a sale of The Mei Yun Tang Collection of Paintings by Chang Daichien – on 31 May 2011. The sale features 25 prominent paintings from this monumental Collection, and is expected to fetch in excess of HK$130 million / US$ 16.7 million*. This Collection is internationally recognised as [Read More]

A rare earthenware ceramic cat made by David Hockney in 1955 sold for an astonishing £33,600 at Bonhams on 20 April against a pre sale estimate of £5,000 -7,000. Although Hockney experimented with ceramics in his youth, the works rarely appear at auction and the subject matter – a rather startled looking [Read More]