Coinciding with Gerhard Richter’s Retrospective at Tate Modern (October 2011 to January 2012), Christie’s is to offer five definitive works by the artist in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 14 October. The group is led by the artist’s seminal Kerze (Candle) painted in 1982, which has not been seen [Read More]
Christie’s announce the sale of Fine Musical Instruments on October 14. The sale will offer over 150 instruments ranging from an 18th century violin and cello by Giovanni Grancino, to an extraordinary Gibson mandolin, and to more contemporary guitars, including a C.F. Martin model designed in collaboration with Eric Clapton. Guitars Commencing [Read More]
SOTHEBY’S SCANDINAVIAN SALE on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 will be headlined by Interior with Ida in a White Chair by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916). Estimated at £500,000-700,000, the painting is one of the most important works by the artist ever to be offered at auction and comes to the market from a Private [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company announces the highlights from its London Contemporary Art auctions. The Evening auction will feature 36 lots with a low estimate of £10,060,000 /$15,938,000 and a high estimate of £14,600,000 /$22,111,000. The Day auction will comprise of 256 lots with a low estimate of £4,351,500/$6,273,300 and a high [Read More]
Sotheby’s fine art auctioneers have announced the sale of a group of works from the collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem across a series of sales throughout the upcoming autumn and winter auction seasons, in both New York and London. The group will be led by works in the New York sales [Read More]
Bonhams presents its Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts sale, October 31-November 1, featuring several historical San Francisco highlights, and timed to coincide with the oldest continuously operating international antiques show on the West Coast, The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show. Royal Italian Neoclassical giltwood stool, Naples, early 19th century, height 29in (73cm); [Read More]
Christie’s South Kensington bi-annual auction of Travel, Science and Natural History held on 29 September 2011 realized a total of £2,018,650 / $3,153,131 / €2,313,373, selling 78% by lot and 93% by value. This result is the highest total ever achieved for this category at Christie’s South Kensington saleroom; the sale was [Read More]
Proxibid (www.proxibid.com), the world’s largest real auction marketplace, will provide live online bidding when a collection of high-end photographic prints and books crosses the auction block to benefit the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. The live auction, featuring auctioneer Denise Bethel, senior vice president and director of the [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York announces that it will offer six works generously donated by leading contemporary artists to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF). Works by Cecily Brown, Tracey Emin, Jim Hodges, Howard Hodgkin, Jeff Koons and Keith Haring will be include in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Day Sale on 10 November 2011, [Read More]
Doyle New York will auction Prints and Books from The Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation Collection on Tuesday, November 8, 2011. This important single-owner sale brings together Mr. Fath’s two most enduring passions — politics and art. CREEKMORE AND ADELE FATH Creekmore Fath (1916-2009) was an influential figure in Texas politics. [Read More]
RM Auctions, in partnership with the Force India Formula One Team, is proud to offer a unique Force India Formula One ‘Art Car’ as a featured attraction at its highly- anticipated London, UK sale next month (26 October, 2011). Racing chassis VJM1-05 has been wonderfully hand-painted by world-renowned motorsport artist Dexter Brown [Read More]
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, have announced the single-owner auction of the Estate of Dr. Paul J. Vignos, Jr. on November 6-8, 2011. Dr. Vignos, who passed away in June 2010, was an accomplished rheumatologist at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as a generous philanthropist, avid sportsman and art lover. Over the [Read More]
Guoman Hotels is to welcome top London salesroom Dreweatts Bloomsbury to its Cumberland hotel on October 10th for two style-packed auctions.Eight works by legendary graffiti artist Banksy, a vintage Hermes crocodile ’Kelly’ handbag and a collection of costume jewellery that once belonging to the Duchess of Windsor are among the lots on [Read More]
A gem-set gold pendant from the treasury of the legendary Indian ruler, Tipu Sultan, was the star lot in the sale of the contents of Lord Glenconner’s St Lucian home at Bonhams in London on 28 September. The pendant, which is set with a 38 carat emerald surrounded by nine precious stones [Read More]
Sotheby’s auction of Important Russian Art on 1 November 2011 will be led by Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin’s Pearl Mosque at Delhi, the most accomplished painting from the artist’s famed Indian series and his most significant canvas to appear at auction in over a century (est. $3/5 million*). The monumental work – measuring [Read More]
Sotheby’s fall Photographs auction on 5 October 2011 in New York will offer a varied range of material from the 19th to the 21st centuries — from an early copy of Gardner’s Sketch Book of the War to Contemporary photographs by Peter Beard, Robert Rauschenberg, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. Of particular [Read More]
Ketterer Kunst are to auction a rare painting by Willem I van de Velde on 27 October. With Willem I van de Velde’s grisaille-work ”Englische Kriegsschiffe“ (English Warships) a masterpiece of marine painting will be offered at Ketterer Kunst in Munich. ”This means that a painting by the presumably most renowned 17th [Read More]
Phillips de Pury & Company together with the Guggenheim Museum are proud to announce a special auction to benefit the Museum this fall. The Guggenheim auction will be the first of its kind to be held outside of the Museum and will be an evening sale taking place on November 7 at [Read More]