Fine Art

Sotheby’s New York auction of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 19 May 2010 will offer collectors a rich array of works by American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The auction contains a strong selection of modern pictures, with many paintings that are both rare and fresh to the market. [Read More]

Christie’s New York May sales series of Impressionist and Modern Art totaled $360,029,725/ £238,430,281/ €279,092,810, concluding two remarkable days of sales that yielded a new world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. On Tuesday evening, Christie’s sold Pablo Picasso’s 1932 masterpiece, Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art brought a total of $195,697,000, nearly reaching the high end of the presale estimate (est. $141/204 million). Forty-three works achieved prices over $1 million, ten works exceeded $5 million, four works brought prices over $10 million, and two works sold for over [Read More]

A Pablo Picasso artwork, painted in 1932, has set a new record for the most expensive art work sold at auction, fetching $106.5m, at Christie’s auction house in New York. The 5-foot by 4-foot painting shows the reclining nude figure of Marie-Therese Walter with an image of Picasso in the background looking [Read More]

Bonhams is proud to announce the largest ever dedicated sale of Orientalist Art in Dubai on May 13, 2010 which includes masterpieces from renowned European and American artists from the 19th and 20th Centuries. This exhibition and sale will showcase some of the most important examples in private hands. Highlights from the [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields held its Spring auction of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture on April 20, 2010. The Los Angeles-based sale featured a wide variety of important California, Western, Society of Six, Hawaiian scenes and Plein Air works by established American artists including Joseph Kleitsch, Franz Bischoff, Edgar Payne, Granville Redmond [Read More]

A painting inspired by the psychic spirits of dead soldiers and bought by a grieving Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who lost a son in WW1 is for sale as part of the Owston Collection in Sydney with Bonhams on June 25 and 26. The painting by William Francis (Will) Longstaff (Australian, 1879-1953) [Read More]

Sotheby’s London announced that the Spanish section of its 19th Century European Paintings sale on Wednesday, 2 June, 2010 will be headed by a rare work by Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923). Joaquín Sorolla stands out as the period’s most prolific and renowned artist and was the subject of a major retrospective of his [Read More]

Christie’s, announces that its eighth auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art, estimated at $4.8 million, realized $15,122,125 / AED55,528,443, selling 96% by value and 86% by lot. This is an extraordinary result which reflects the quality of the sale and the passion of the collectors that Christie’s has helped to bring [Read More]

Sotheby’s biannual sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art in London will take place on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 and presents for sale over 220 lots. The auction, estimated to realise approximately £4 million, will be headlined by a unique pair of Imperial gilt and patinated-bronze winter plum trees, their [Read More]

“About a year ago anxious prospects made for uncertainty, but the art market has not only proven stability in challenging times, it even reached new heights“, said Robert Ketterer, owner of Ketterer Kunst. “Its the quality that counts“, he continues in view of his main auction on 12 June 2010, which has [Read More]

A very rare and unusual screen-print by Ben Nicholson is one of the star lots in Bonhams Prints from the St Ives School sale on 25 May in London. The image, George and Rufus (£2,500 – 3,500), is printed in colour on rayon and was based on a series of paintings that [Read More]

A masterpiece valued at HK$120 million/US$15,480,000 by Ming Dynasty Chinese classical painting master Shitao (1642–1707) will be offered by leading international auction house Christie’s at its Hong Kong Spring Sales on May 28th. Shitao, a renowned scholar-artist, was one of the most influential painters of his time and had a profound effect [Read More]

Montserrat College of Art’s (www.montserrat.edu) annual Artrageous!24 benefit art auction will be held Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. at 72 Cherry Hill Drive, Beverly, MA. http://www.montserrat.edu/ Alumnus Eric Hopkins http://www.montserrat.edu/ of North Haven Island, Maine, will be this year’s Honorary Artist. Through his art and with his thoughts and ideas [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York will offer, as part of its May 5 and 6 Impressionist and Modern Art Evening and Day sales, Property from the S. Joel Schur Collection, perhaps the finest collection of masterpieces by Rembrandt Bugatti in private hands. Bugatti was a singular figure whose vision was devoted to unique and [Read More]

An important portrait by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) and undoubtedly the most important early masterpiece by Louis le Brocquy (b. 1916) will headline Sotheby’s annual Irish Sale in London on Thursday, 6 May 2010. Over 65 works from the sale are to be part of an extensive touring exhibition which starts at [Read More]

Dreweatts and Bloomsbury Auctions are holding a 97 lot, cutting-edge Urban Art sale (pdf catalogue) on Wednesday 21st April at 24 Maddox Street, London W1. A signed pencil sketch of a Shark bearing its teeth, a skull, a butterfly and a heart by the world renowned Damien Hirst, inscribed ‘for LJ Don’t [Read More]

Phillips de Pury & Company New York has announced that it will offer The Halsey Minor Collection of Contemporary Art and Design at auction. Mr. Minor, a technology entrepreneur, founded CNET Networks in San Francisco in 1993. Since then he has amassed a highly important collection of works by renowned artists and [Read More]