Fine Art

World records set with works from Irving Ramsey Wiles and William Alexander BOSTON, Mass.– Skinner, Inc today announced exceptional results of its recent American & European Paintings & Prints auction, held last Friday, May 21st. Several world records were set with the sale grossing $3,982,398.00, including buyer’s premium. The auction’s top lot [Read More]

An intimate portrait by Pablo Picasso of the artist’s friend Mr Minguell is to feature in the Impressionist and Modern Art auction at Bonhams on Tuesday 22nd June, and is estimated to fetch £700,000-1,000,000. The portrait shows Mr Minguell, a Catalan tailor who was probably introduced to the artist on his visit [Read More]

The June 4th evening sale is divided into two sections — in part because of the remarkably successful acquisition within the contemporary segment — with two corresponding catalogs: „Selected Works” and „Contemporary Art.” Works presented in the section of modern art span from important examples of German Impressionism and Expressionism to art [Read More]

Christie’s London will auction works from the Nicolette Wernick Collection. It will be offered for sale on the morning of Wednesday 16 June, followed by the strong various owner sale of Victorian and British Impressionist Pictures including Drawings and Watercolours. Comprising 91 works, which exemplify the Victorian’s interest in legends, chivalry, fairytales, [Read More]

On May 27 at 1pm Gray’s 19th Century, Modern and Contemporary Fine Art auction will be offering a rare Shimon Okshteyn, oil painting and serigraph on paper mounted on canvas. It is estimated very conservatively at $8,000 – $10,000. The painting is comprised of four individual colored and painted serigraphs laid down [Read More]

Sotheby’s London will offer an exceptional Private European Collection of Prints, on 16 September 2010. The collection consists of masterworks by Pablo Picasso, the most important and innovative printmaker of the Modern Period who has been credited with the creation of some of the most significant works in the medium’s five hundred [Read More]

The work of L.S. Lowry (1887-1976) holds a special place in the heart of the British public and Sotheby’s sale of 20th Century British Art on Wednesday, 26 May 2010, will present four exceptional works by the much celebrated British master. The pictures come from three different private collections and have never [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York will offer a Highly Important Series of Over Forty Autograph Letters and Postcards from Surrealist master René Magritte to poet Paul Colinet, on 18 June 2010. The correspondence forms an extraordinary record of the artist’s creative process in addition to revealing the literary and artistic influences on his work [Read More]

Phillips de Pury & Company’s New York sales of the Halsey Minor Collection and Contemporary Art Part I totaled $37,901,000 selling 88% by value and 78% by lot. At Phillips de Pury in New York today, the much anticipated sales of the Halsey Minor Collection and Contemporary Art Part I offered a [Read More]

A portrait of Sir Laurence Olivier taken by celebrated photographer David Bailey on the actor’s 80th birthday, two years before his death in 1989, is being sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Photographs on 20 May 2010. It is expected to fetch £4,000 – 6,000. Bailey [Read More]

A new auction record for a self portrait by Andy Warhol was set when the artist’s iconic and rare Self Portrait from 1986 sold for $32,562,500, more than double the pre-sale high estimate $15 million, at Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art, in new York The monumental canvas, measuring 108 x 108 [Read More]

New York / Berlin, – artnet Auctions offers continuous online auctions of fine art, prints and photographs. Beginning May 11, artnet Auctions will present 60 modern and contemporary works of art by artists including Damien Hirst, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. Represented in the sale are some of the most [Read More]

Bonhams will hold their first ever Picasso Editions Sale featuring ceramics, prints and jewellery by the most celebrated artist of the 20th century, in Knightsbridge on Wednesday 22nd September. Picasso items have previously been sold in other Bonhams sales, but this will be the first auction to be devoted purely to the [Read More]

Sotheby’s will be holding a spring auction under the heading of ‘Swiss Art’ at its premises in Talstrasse 83, on 14 June 2010. 114 works representing Swiss artistic creativity of the early 20th century will come under the hammer. With an estimate of 13 million Swiss francs, the auction includes masterpieces by [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York Latin American Art sale, on 27 and 28 May 2010, will showcase a range of Latin American painting and sculpture from the continents’ most important artists including exceptional works from several distinguished private collections and estates. Wilfredo Lam’s Sur Les Traces (est. $1.2/1.8 million) and The Ordeal of Owain [Read More]

On June 22, 2010, in its evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in London, Sotheby’s will offer a masterpiece by the father and a key figure of Impressionism, Edouard Manet: Self-Portrait with a Palette, estimated at £20–30 million. Charles Moffett, Sotheby’s Executive Vice President and co-curator of the 1983 landmark Manet [Read More]

Phillips de Pury & Company has announced highlights from the forthcoming New York auction AFRICA on Saturday 15 May 2010, including works of contemporary art, photographs, and editions which reflect the spirit of the continent and its global impact, as expressed by African and non-African artists from around the world. The sale [Read More]

Julian Onderdonk’s 1917 oil painting Bluebonnets at Sunrise headlines the sublime, often stellar lineup of Texas & Western Art in Heritage Auction Galleries’ Signature® Auction, May 15, at the company’s Downtown Dallas Design District Annex, locate at 1518 Slocum Street. The painting, the first major Onderdonk “Bluebonnet” painting to be offered at [Read More]