Sotheby?s London will offer for sale a magnificent collection of works on paper by Paul Gauguin that incorporates the artist?s three most significant categories of print?making activity, on Wednesday, 30 March, 201. Executed in France and Tahiti between 1894 and 1902, the works are among the finest within Gauguin’s printed oeuvre, and [Read More]
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Bonhams is pleased to announce the upcoming auction of Important Maritime Paintings and Decorative Arts on Wednesday, January 26, 2011. The 130 lot sale is comprised primarily of property from private collections and important institutions such as The India House and The Steamship Historical Society of America. With a profound focus upon [Read More]
A picture by world renowned Welsh artist Sir Kyffin Williams has been discovered in a local property. The 35cm by 48cm image in ink/wash by Sir John ‘Kyffin’ Williams (1918-2006) is titled ‘Carmel’. It shows a churchyard to the foreground with classic Welsh terraces and mountainous landscape beyond. Provenance with it states [Read More]
A splendid 19th century oil painting portrait of a prize Derbyshire bull by the artist Thomas Roebuck is for sale at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale in London on 19 January. It is estimated at between £6,000 and £8,000. The picture is signed and inscribed ‘Mr Thomas Roebuck, artist, Wirksworth.” The Wirksworth Parish [Read More]
A fine painting of historic Gosport with view across to Portsmouth Harbour is for auction at Bonhams Gentleman’s Library Sale in London on 19 January. The 19th century picture features well known local landmarks including the Semaphore Tower in the Dockyard – Head Office of the Naval Base Commander and Queen’s Harbour [Read More]
Irma Stern’s pre-eminent place in South African Art will be clearer than ever at Bonhams next sale in London on March 23, at which pictures estimated to sell for millions of pounds are on offer. Giles Peppiatt, Director of South African Art, comments: “You could say that the world record beating sale [Read More]
The Photographers’ Gallery will stage a charity auction at Christie’s South Kensington on Thursday 17 February 2011. Designed to raise the final portion of funds to transform its Ramillies Street Gallery, the event will comprise a Live and Silent Auction, offering nearly 70 lots. With estimates ranging from £600 to £10,000, this [Read More]
On January 27, 2011, Sotheby’s Auction of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture in New York will feature significant works by artists from across Europe. The morning session of Important Old Master Paintings is led by Titian’s monumental Sacra Conversazione, a rare work by the artist still in private hands (est. $15/20 [Read More]
Fine art auctioneers Phillips de Pury & Company present Tectonic Shift: Contemporary Art from Chile at Phillips de Pury & Company on view through January 28, 2011. Featuring artists including; Magdalena Atria, Catalina Bauer, Cristóbal Lehyt, Livia Marin, Josefina Guilisasti, Alvaro Oyarzún, Gerardo Pulido, Tomás Rivas, Pablo Rivera, Cristián Silva, Malu Stewart, [Read More]
(ORLANDO, Fla.) – Owners of original and reproduction works of art are being invited to “Turn Your Art Into Quick Cash” by Baterbys Art Auction Gallery for its first-ever Discovery Consignment Auction, slated for Feb. 19 at their Palm Beach County Gallery (13900 South Jog Road in Delray Beach) and Feb. 26 [Read More]
A painting by Maud Earl showing the black Labrador Peter of Faskally, father of 32 field trial champions and the original blood line for all present day Chocolate Labradors, is to be a highlight of the ‘Dogs in Show & Field: The Fine Art Sale’ on 16th February 2011 at Bonhams New [Read More]
The earliest known work by an artist acknowledged as one of today’s leading international female painters, Marlene Dumas, whose pictures sells for millions, will be auctioned by Bonhams on March 23rd in a sale of South African Art. Dumas painted this charming picture of a girl for a student friend, Alida Louw, [Read More]
A beautiful painting by the Victorian watercolourist Helen Allingham entitled By the cottage gate, Mayfield, East Sussex is estimated to sell for £7,000-10,000 in Bonhams 19th Century Pictures auction on 27th January 2011. East Sussex was a county well known to Helen Allingham. Watercolours dating from the late 1870s show her children [Read More]
On January 17, Copley Fine Art Auctions will conduct its first Winter Sale, offering 430 lots of top-notch American paintings, decoys and related folk art. The first lot will cross the block at 11 AM, and all items will be available for preview from 10 AM to 8 PM on Saturday, January [Read More]
An extensive archive of images by the British photographer, Harold Chapman, the single largest collection of Chapman material in private hands, is to be offered for sale at Bonhams by private treaty. The collection, a selection of which is on show at Bonhams, New Bond Street from now until 11 January 2011, [Read More]
Painting by Scottish Artist Who Was Vice-President of the RSPB to Sell for £150,000 Bonhams announce that a beautiful Archibald Thorburn painting entitled ‘The Covey at Daybreak’ will be a highlight of the 19th Century Paintings auction on 27th January 2011, New Bond Street, London. This follows on from the success of [Read More]
The top-selling lot of the November Sales of Russian Art in London was Alexander Yakovlev’s 1926 oil on canvas The Kuli-Kuta Dance, Niamey, which sold for the within-estimate sum of £937,250 (Est. £800,000-1,000,000**) Two new artist records established for Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel with The Assyrian (lot 23, est. £30,000-50,000) and Igor Emmanuiovich [Read More]
A splendid and monumental celebration of Scotland’s military heritage is to be auctioned at Bonhams Fine Picture sale in Edinburgh on 7 December. ‘The Scottish Volunteer Review, Edinburgh 1905″, (£20,000-30,000) which is over 5 feet wide, is the work of Robert Gemmell Hutchison, one of Scotland’s best loved artists and most famous [Read More]