Sotheby’s London sale of 19th Century European Paintings (which included works by Spanish, Orientalist, German, Austrian, Scandinavian and Symbolist artists) brought a total of £11,166,050 (€13,168,101). Vilhelm Hammershoi, Unge Egetræer (Young Oak Trees), oil on canvas. Estimate: £70,000 – 90,000. Sold for: £205,250 (€242,051). Photo: Sotheby’s. Spanish Painting: The top-selling lots of [Read More]
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Fresh-to-market finds from the holdings of an important Fortune 500 company – including photographs from such luminous names as Harold Edgerton, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Sandy Skoglund, Eliot Porter, Ernst Haas, Annie Leibovitz, O. Winston Link and William Wegman – provide the anchor to Heritage Auction’s Signature® Vintage & Contemporary Photography Auction, [Read More]
Sotheby’s auction of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture in New York, on 2 December. will offer works by important American artists and genres, spanning Impressionism, Modernism, 19th Century Paintings, American Illustration and Western Art. The sale is highlighted by paintings from Property from the Collection of Philip and Charlotte Hanes, led by [Read More]
Sotheby’s is to offer important old master paintings, modern British art and other works from the collection of 20th-century press baron and business tycoon Lord Beaverbrook in a series of auctions in both London and New York through January 2011. The highlight of the collection is Claude-Joseph Vernet’s A Grand View of [Read More]
Bonhams announce the November 11, 2010 results of African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art sale in New York. The auction featured unique and traditional works from Africa, Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Indonesia, Australia, Central and South America from as early as 1200 B.C. to the 15th Century, prior to European contact. Fredric Backlar, Director, [Read More]
artnet Auctions is offering an outstanding collection by leading contemporary artists like Christo, Robert Graham, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol and others on offer. Untitled (Inverted Crucifix), 1984, by Keith Haring is the top lot in the sale. This 60 x 60 inch painting in day-glo orange acrylic is offered in pristine condition [Read More]
October was another great month for bidders and auctioneers on Artfact Live! Collectors snapped up vintage Matchbox cars at The Matchbox Forum’s October 7th auction with 71% of the lots selling online; Grogan & Company kicked off its 23rd anniversary with a spectacular October Auction that received over 54,000 online visits and [Read More]
Bonhams are to sell a near-contemporary portrait of Napoleon painted by his valet and close companion Louis-Joseph-Narcisse Marchand in the British & Continental Pictures auction in Knightsbridge on 30 November 2010. Marchand (1791-1876) was Napoleon Bonaparte’s valet and friend. He became an Imperial servant in 1811 and remained faithful to Napoleon after [Read More]
The Finding of Moses, a 19th century masterpiece by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, has been sold for a remarkable $35,922,500, more than seven times the presale high estimate of $5 million*, at Sotheby’s in New York. The monumental canvas was sought-after by three determined bidders who battled for nearly eight minutes. Soon after [Read More]
Bonhams announce the results of its Fall European Painting sale in New York. The highly anticipated event on October 29, 2010 brought in more than $2.5 million. Simulcast to San Francisco, the fall auction offered a broad range of European Works of Art with an emphasis on the Eastern aesthetic and 19th [Read More]
Turkish auction house, Antik A.S. will offer masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art, on 7 November. The sale consisting of selected 180 lots among the finest which ever to have appeared on the market for the first time. Special collection will be exhibited in Antik A.S. galleries during the dates 27 [Read More]
Sotheby’s autumn Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York on 2 November 2010 will present a superb offering of works across the period. From an early painting by Eugène Boudin from 1868 to a Pablo Picasso canvas from the 1970s, the sale features classic Impressionist paintings, key Modern works, [Read More]
With a respectable overall result of EUR 2 million* and many world record prices, the auction of “Modern and Contemporary Art”, intended as an interim auction with works of up to EUR 20.000, was one of Germany’s very important auctions this year. “24 per cent new customers and an average increase of [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York 4 November auction of 19th Century European Art will feature three works by the prominent Italian painter Giovanni Boldini. This offering comes just after the close of the important exhibition Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris, which opened at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in 2009 and traveled to [Read More]
During the last decade of his life, Edward Bawden CBE (1903-1989) carefully put together an archive of some three thousand items which he donated to the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. Now Bawden’s friend and Executor Peyton Skipwith has instigated and curated a unique sale to be held at Bloomsbury Auctions in [Read More]
Two oil on canvas paintings by the official artist of the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Terence Cuneo (1907-1996), commissioned by the Ford Motor Company in 1947, are to be sold at Bonhams’ sale of Important Motor Cars and Fine Automobilia on 6 December. This year the annual end of year sale will [Read More]
Christie’s Hong Kong will hold its Fall sales of Fine Chinese Modern Paintings and Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy on 30 November at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. These sales will showcase over 350 rare and exceptional works from the Chinese masters, valued in excess of HK$260 million (US$34 [Read More]
Following the Bonhams’ sale in June, where a picture by Helen Bradley was sold at a world record price, three pictures by the artist will be offered in the 20th Century British Art Sale held at Bonhams New Bond Street on the 17th November. Born in 1900 in Lancashire, Helen Bradley was [Read More]