Fine Art

Sotheby’s London has announced as part of its Contemporary Turkish Art sale: Untitled, 1956, a major work by Nejad Melih Devrim, will be offered alongside works by leading Turkish artists. From a private Danish collection, the painting has remained in private hands since it was first exhibited in Copenhagen in 1956 and [Read More]

An oil painting of Penzance by Stanhope Forbes one of Cornwall’s most important artists has auctioned for £170,000. It had a pre auction estimate of £240,000 – £260,000 The picture, “Inner Harbour – Abbey Slip” was painted in 1921. Stanhope Alexander Forbes R.A., (18 November 1857, – 2 March 1947), was an [Read More]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Spring Sale 2010, held on the 9th April, featured an Important and Superb Imperially Inscribed ‘Tai Shang Huang Di’ White Jade Seal, Yubi Mark and Period of Qianlong fetched HK$95,860,000 / US$12,289,744, establishing a world record for white jade and Imperial seal [Read More]

Phillips de Pury sale of the Estate of Mrs. Harry N. Abrams sale offered a unique collection of 20TH Century American and European art with a focus on Post-War and Pop Art from a range of significant artists, attracting over 1000 registered bidders. “There was amazing energy throughout the sale. It demonstrates [Read More]

Seoul Auction, held its Modern and Contemporary Art sale in Hong Kong on 4 April 2010, taking a total of HK$42.8 million (US$5.53 million). Untitled, an important mixed media work by Donald Judd (1928-1994) achieved HK$14,812,000 (US$1,913,695). Works by Robert Indiana, Gerhard Richter and Ron Arad sold for strong prices. Two World [Read More]

Phillips de Pury & Company will hold their BRIC auctions at London’s Saatchi Gallery, on 23rd and 24th April. The BRIC auctions will be the very first sales of Contemporary Art from today’s fastest-growing and burgeoning international powerhouses: Brazil, Russia, India and China. The auctions will launch with an evening sale on [Read More]

Locati Auctions is proud to offer the public a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy photographs and related material from the estate of Lois C. Jennings. This auction is made up of approximately 100 lots. Mrs. Jennings was the daughter-in-law of the celebrated William Nicholson Jennings (1860-1946), an American pioneer in the field of [Read More]

Phillips de Pury & Company has announced highlights of the forthcoming New York Photographs sale on Friday, April 16, 2010. Highlights of the New York Photographs sale include: Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, NJ, 1967, estimated at $70,000-90,000; Robert Frank’s portrait Ben James, Welsh Miner, 1953, estimated at $60,000-80,000; Hiroshi Sugimoto, Chapel [Read More]

Exceptional American and European art will be one of the many highlights of Clars’ April 10th and 11th, 2010 two-day Fine Estates Sale. Clars’ March sale saw record-breaking prices for renowned sculptor Richard MacDonald, and strong prices realized across the board. Continuing this trend, exciting results are anticipated for their April sale. [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York 5 May 2010 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art will feature Henri Matisse’s spectacular “Bouquet pour le 14 Juillet 1919”, the artist’s emotional celebration of the first Bastille Day following World War I (est. $18/25 million)*. The present work also heralds the fresh and colorful style that would [Read More]

Sotheby’s New York spring sale of 19th Century European Art will be held on 23 April and will offer a selection of high-quality works representing the best artists, schools and styles of the 19th century. Works from the sale will be exhibited at Sotheby’s New York galleries beginning 17 April. Sotheby’s 19th [Read More]

2009 proved to be the second most successful year in the Dorotheum’s history and there is every reason to expect that 2010 will likewise turn into a highly successful year, especially in light of the superlative items presented at the first major Dorotheum Auction Week. Among these will be a newly discovered [Read More]

Domestic buyers and sellers of Chinese decorative arts, no matter how experienced in the trade, have come to face each major sale on the auction calendar expecting the unexpected. China’s dynamic economy and the subsequent explosion of that nation’s antique and decorative arts market has created surging, wave-like trends that suddenly, unexpectedly [Read More]

Sotheby’s announced that in its Evening Sale of Old Master and Early British Paintings in London on Wednesday, 7 July 2010, it will present for sale Joseph Mallord William Turner RA’s great masterpiece Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino, with an estimate of £12-18 million. J.M.W. Turner RA, “Modern Rome: Campo Vaccino”. Oil [Read More]

Out nations great love of dogs was in evidence at Richard Winterton’s Fine Art Sale on 25th March when an oil painting of pug puppies proved ‘best in show’. Dogs in art have always been held in high esteem and images of puppies have a particular appeal. Lot 15 a charming oil [Read More]

Top lot at Swann Galleries March 9th 2010 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings was Amedeo Modigliani’s pencil drawing of Beatrice Hastings, circa 1915, which brought $84,000. The portrait of the political activist and literary figure, which was once in the celebrated collection of Joseph L Shulman, had a [Read More]

Christie’s Auctioneers has announced its three Photographs sales this spring season will be held in New York on April 14 and 15, 2010. The three separate sales include two single owner collections, Three Decades with Irving Penn: Photographs from the Collection of Patricia McCabe, and Selections from the Baio Collection of Photographs [Read More]

The renowned Scottsdale Art Auction, held April 10, 2010, will have one-of-a-kind works of fine art expected to break records at this year’s event. A rare Charles M. Russell painting is estimated at $1.8 to $2.8 million, for example. Attendance at the 2010 auction is expected to exceed 400 art buyers, many [Read More]