Christie’s London two day sale of South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art Including Property From The Estate of Francis Newton Souza realised a total of £12,462,425/$18,092,364/€15,056,174 and was 98% sold by value and 91% sold by lot. The top lot was Syed Haider Raza (b. 1922), Saurashtra, 1983 which fetched £2,393,250/ $3,486,965/ [Read More]
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Sotheby’s London announced that its Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Monday, June 28, 2010 will present collectors with a one-off opportunity to acquire some of the best Post-War and Contemporary artworks by the venerated and highly sought-after School of London artists Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach, as well as Paula [Read More]
Christie’s New York sale of Old Masters & 19th Century Art featuring Select Works from the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries on June 9 achieved $11,749,750/£8,103,276/€9,791,458 with sell-through rates of 60% by lot, 78% by value. The top lot of the sale was William Bouguereau’s Pietà, painted in 1876, which sold for $2,770,500/£1,910,690/€2,308,750 – the [Read More]
Christie’s London announced that they will offer an icon of Pop Art – Silver Liz by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) – at the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 30 June 2010. Unseen in public for over 20 years, the work was executed in 1963 and is one of only 2 paintings [Read More]
Sotheby’s London Important Russian Art auction, the first of our Summer sales of Russian Art this week, tonight realised a total of £10,448,450 ($15,079,203) almost reaching the pre-sale top estimate (est. £7,730,000-11,320,000). The auction, which was well-attended, established two new artist records and achieved an extremely healthy sell-through rate by value of [Read More]
Christie’s International, the world’s leading art business, is pleased to announce the global launch of Christie’s Mobile Web, an optimized mobile experience that is free to all users of web-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), regardless of the device’s operating platform. The move builds on the July 2009 launch of [Read More]
The painting entitled ‘James Wyatt and his Granddaughter Mary Wyatt’ by William Henry Millais, who was assisted in its production by his brother, the better-known Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir John Everett Millais, is expected to fetch £20,000-30,000 at Bonhams 19th Century Paintings auction on 29th September 2010. The stunning work for auction at [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris Summer Evening Sale of Contemporary Art achieved a successful total of €9,517,050 / $11,679,324 / £7,932,168, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €5.1-7.0 million / $6.3-8.6 million / £4.2-5.8 million. The sale achieved exemplary sell through rates of 93% by lot and almost 100% by value and these [Read More]
A wartime oil painting, Bomb Store No.3, depicting the underground bomb store at RAF Fauld in Tutbury near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire by British artist David Bomberg (1890-1957) is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its 20th Century British Art sale on 30 June 2010. It is expected to [Read More]
Grogan & Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers will be conducting their June auction on Sunday, June 6th at 12:00 p.m. The auction, comprised of Fine Art, 18th and 19th century Furniture and Decorations, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs from a variety of estates and collections, will be held at their Dedham [Read More]
Christie’s Hong Kong Spring 2010 sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art marks a 33% increase over the Fall 09 sale total. More than 10 records were set for both established and emerging artists from both the modern and contemporary sections, including the top lot, Italian painter-traveler Romualdo Locatelli’s Bali picture, [Read More]
Sotheby’s sale, the Splendour of Venice, to be held in London on Tuesday July 6, 2010, allows a glimpse into the dazzlingly beautiful world that existed inside some of Venice’s most splendid palazzi during some of the most prosperous and charmed years of the Venetian Republic. The sale will consist of some [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company announced the opening of a new uptown auction and exhibition gallery at 450 Park Avenue. The space will open in November with the first of the “Carte Blanche” sales, an innovative, new series of sales curated by notable art world figures and the fall Contemporary Art evening [Read More]
Sotheby’s Paris will offer one of the most carefully curated ensembles of African & Oceanic Art to be offered on the market in recent years, on June 16. The works come from a number of esteemed private collections, including the famous Friede collection, and the sale is divided equally between Oceania and [Read More]
Bruce Nauman’s masterful charcoal, pencil, pastel and watercolor Human Nature, 1983, is expected to bring $250,000+ as the centerpiece of Heritage Auction Galleries’ June 9 Signature 74; Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art Auction at its Dallas Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. “This sublime piece comes to auction from the Collection of [Read More]
Christie’s announced that they will offer one of the last of the great female portraits painted by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) at the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 23 June 2010. Executed in 1917-18, Frauenbildnis (Portrait of Ria Munk III) is the third and final painting in a series [Read More]
An important painting by the British painter Frank Auerbach of his long-term lover, Estella Olive West, entitled Head of E.O.W. III, 1961, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its 20th Century British Art sale on 30 June 2010. The painting, which has never appeared at auction [Read More]
The summer 2010 sale at Christie’s London, on Wednesday 16 June, will meet the renewed vigor of demand with one of the strongest sales of its type to be offered on the international auction platform for many years. With estimates ranging from £3,000 to £1.5 million, the sale is expected to realise [Read More]