Fine Art

Christie’s South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art auction in New York will feature works of leading 20th and 21st century Indian and Pakistani artists, juxtaposing tradition with a contemporary edge. The sale presents an exhilarating array of important works and will feature celebrated Modern Masters Tyeb Mehta, Syed Haider Raza, Francis Newton [Read More]

The original preparatory painting for the acclaimed British painter, sculptor and printmaker Allen Jones’ poster for the ill-fated 1972 Munich Olympics is to be sold at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, as part of the Vision 21 sale on 16 March 2011. It has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £7,000 – 9,000. Jones was one [Read More]

Sotheby’s Seventeenth Annual Irish Sale in London, to take place on Tuesday, 29 March, 2011, brings together exceptional masterpieces by eminent Irish artists. The group of works, many never before offered on the market, boasts superb and rare pictures by John Lavery, Roderic O’Conor and Mary Swanzy. Louis le Brocquy is represented [Read More]

A stainless steel 57cm high model of Paul Mount’s iconic Spirit of Bristol sculpture is to be sold at Bonhams as part of its Vision 21 sale on 16 March 2011, and has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £2,000 – £3,000. Cornwall-based artist, Paul Mount, who died in 2009 at the age [Read More]

The Football Match, 1949, by Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976) will be offered at auction on 26 May 2011 in Christie’s sale of 20th Century British Artin London. An exceptionally rare depiction of one of Britain’s most popular sports – football – by one of the country’s most iconic British artists, this [Read More]

Quinn’s Auction Galleries will host its 500-lot International Furnishings, Fine & Decorative Arts sale on March 5, 2011. “The selection of fine art and furniture in this auction is, by far, the finest and most diverse we have ever offered,” said Quinn’s VP Communications & Marketing Matthew Quinn. “The main consignor is [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of Indian and South East Asian Art on 25 March 2011 will be led by one of the most important paintings by a modern Indian painter ever to have appeared on the market. Untitled (Reclining Nude) is one of the highlights of Sotheby’s Asia Week series of auctions in New [Read More]

Sotheby’s will offer The Robert Rubin Collection, one of the most important collections of African art to have appeared on the international market in recent years, on 13 May 2011 in New York. Mr. Rubin (1934–2009) was a founding trustee of the Museum for African Art in New York and a major [Read More]

Sotheby’s announced that Paris will become the company’s European centre for sales of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design and Photographs. Biannual sales in each category will be held at the Galerie Charpentier in May and November. From 2011, 20th Century Decorative Art & Design sales will be held exclusively in Paris. [Read More]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong announce the sale of an important private collection of contemporary Chinese Art on 3 April: The Ullens Collection – The Nascence of Avant Garde China, offering 106 masterpieces from the legendary Collection, which are expected to bring a total of HK$100 million to HK$130 million / US$12.7 million to [Read More]

Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Evening sale in London was led by Pablo Picasso’s iconic 1932 painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter, La Lecture, which sold to a round of applause for £25,241,250 /$40,711,612 / €29,744,296, more than double the low estimate (est. £12 – 18 million/$18.5-27.8 million). Following a heated bidding contest that lasted [Read More]

Also, the original 2-piece costume worn by TV’s Captain Kangaroo changed hands for $9,323. (OCEANSIDE, N.Y.) – An original oil on canvas painting by the renowned Russian artist Boris Israelevich Anisfeld (1879-1973) sold for $93,225 at a three-day multi-estate sale held Jan. 21-23 by Philip Weiss Auctions, in the firm’s spacious gallery [Read More]

Paintings by Sam Newton, Alfred Hair, Willie Daniels and James Gibson will cross the block. (ORLANDO, Fla.) – Several original works of art by Florida’s legendary Highwaymen – the loosely affiliated group of African-American artists who eked out a meager living mainly in the Fort Pierce area of Florida, from the 1950s [Read More]

Bonhams is mounting a campaign in Yorkshire to unearth paintings, prints and related objects by David Hockney for its dedicated Hockney sale in London on 20 April. The auctioneers will be offering free, confidential valuations at Salts Mill, Saltaire, on 19 February 2011. Bonhams will also be holding a general valuation, at [Read More]

A previously unknown painting by Walter Sickert, entitled The Blind Sea Captain, is one of the highlights of the 20th Century British Art Sale in New Bond Street on the 9th March. The painting, which is estimated to sell for £40,000 – 60,000, is from a private collection, inherited by the vendor [Read More]

A beautiful picture by the prolific British maritime and figurative painter, Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929), entitled Sleeping Sailor, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of The Marine Sale on 22 March 2011. Initially sold for £15 to Arthur Taylor, it has now attracted a pre-sale estimate of [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields is offering an original drawing featuring five vignettes by famed children’s author and illustrator Beatrix Potter during the Fine Books & Manuscripts Auction on February 13, 2011. The piece by Potter, circa 1893, depicts a guinea pig grooming and dressing (est. $12,000-$18,000). At least three of the rare illustrations [Read More]

Christie’s International, today announced worldwide sales for 2010 of £3.3 billion/$5.0 billion, up 53% by £ on last year’s figure of £2.1 billion (Figures include buyer’s premium). The highest sales total in the 245 year history of the firm, the figure is also the highest annual sales total ever recorded in the [Read More]