18 January 2014
Christie’s highly anticipated annual evening sale ‘The Art of The Surreal’ will take place on 4 February, presenting some of the most remarkable works to be offered in the category to date. The auction is led by the most important early Magritte to come to auction in a generation, Les chasseurs au bord de la […]
16 January 2014
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London in February will be led by an exceptional abstract painting by Gerhard Richter. Estimated to realise in excess of £15 million ($25m), Wand (Wall) was held by Richter to be a work of such importance that he chose to keep it in his personal collection for over fifteen […]
15 January 2014
A major portrait by Francis Bacon will be offered at Christie’s in their upcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 13 February 2014. The painting depicts George Dyer and was executed in 1966, at the artist’s creative peak. George Dyer was Bacon’s lover, muse and arguably his greatest influence. A powerful and poignant portrait […]
14 January 2014
Arte Povera artists filled galleries with animals and decaying matter decades before Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. With its idea that humble ‘poor’ everyday materials – both natural and man-made – can be transformed into powerful, evocative works of art, Arte Povera transformed the landscape and language of contemporary art in the late 1960s and […]
13 January 2014
Nye and Company a small New Jersey auctioneers has announced the sale of an extraordinary and historic work by the renowned American portraitist John Singer Sargent. The oil-on-canvas depicts Lady Randolph Churchill. Born Jeanette “Jennie” Jerome in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn in 1854. Jennie Churchill was considered one of the greatest beauties of […]
8 January 2014
Christie’s London has just announced the sale of an exceptional and historic group of Modern Masters: Works from an Important Private Swiss Collection which will be offered at auction in February 2014. Collections often reflect their collectors‟ tastes and histories, but seldom do they also reflect their friendships and relationships as much as the 22 […]
16 December 2013
A fascinating group of jewels and precious objects celebrating the lives and tastes of the Duke and the Duchess of Windsor soared above estimate, selling for £620,125 ($1,016,137) at Sotheby’s London (est. £351,500 – 506,700/ $575,968 – 830,279). The majority of the pieces were presented some 26 years after they were last auctioned in the […]
14 December 2013
Christie’s Auctioneers has announced the departure of a key member of its team. Amy Cappellazzo will leave the company, after the London auctions in February, to pursue her career outside the company. Ms. Cappellazzo, Co-Head along with Brett Gorvy were responsible for developing Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary Art department between 2001 to 2011. She was named […]
12 December 2013
A number of record breaking prices were achieved last night as Sotheby’s Abstraction and Modern Post-War British Art Evening Sales fetched a total of £6,113,350, making the combined total, with the Day Sale results, to top £7,927,725 (est. £5,838,000-8,911,000). The top lot of last night’s sale was a supreme work by Patrick Heron, Atmospheric Strata […]
7 December 2013
It has been a record breaking week for two icons of American realism. A Depression era view of New Jersey by Edward Hopper has sold for $40m (£24.4m), setting an auction record for the US artist, at Christie’s sale of American art. While Rockwell’s “Saying Grace” has fetched a record price of $46 million at […]
3 December 2013
Sotheby’s announced that it has firmly established Sotheby’s Beijing as a marketplace for selling contemporary art. The auction house, the first international fine art auction house able to conduct business in mainland China, Sunday marked the successful conclusion of Sotheby’s Beijing Art Week, a landmark series of sales and events designed to cater to the […]
28 November 2013
A group of 20 works from the renowned collection of David Thomson goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s 10th December 2013. ‘Abstraction’ brings to the market major works by Alan Davie, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton and William Scott. Together they represent one of the best groups of post-war British Abstract Art to come […]
28 November 2013
The iconic lead statuette of the Maltese Falcon from the classic 1941 Bogart film noir of the same name has sold for a record $4,085,000 at Bonhams. The statuette now holds the record for the highest price achieved for a film prop. It was the top lot in a special sale held on November 25 […]
23 November 2013
Tobias Meyer, the Worldwide Head of the Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s has announced that he is to end his association with the auction house. “Tobias Meyer is an important figure and has been at the central to a number of high profile sales for more than 20 years and we are grateful for all of […]
20 November 2013
Sotheby’s in London, has auctioned a defining image of the Pre-Raphaelite art movement and one of the most iconic images of nineteenth century British art. Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti sold for £3,274,500 ($5,274,892), yesterday establishing a new record for the artist at auction. Bidding for this important work was intense, with five international bidders […]
18 November 2013
Sotheby’s is presenting Sotheby’s Beijing Art Week to be held from 28 November to 1 December at China World Summit, Wing Beijing. Beijing Art Week is an ambitious series of arts events to be held by Sotheby’s in China, encompassing fine and decorative art, historic jewellery with a total value of over RMB 1.3 billion […]
16 November 2013
Oh what a crazy week for contemporary and modern art at auction: Despite a lot of hot air in the art press over the last few days, with speculation of whether the art market bubble (or balloon in some cases) was about to burst, the climate has again proven the sceptics to be wrong, with […]
9 November 2013
PARTE Contemporary Art Fair takes place in São Paulo between 6th and 10th November. It is the third edition of the fair. The event brings together 34 prestigious Brazilian galleries and three international art galleries. PART is an initiative of members Lina Wurzmann and Tamara Perlman working together since the preparation of the first edition […]
7 November 2013
An Impressionist and Modern art sale at Sotheby’s in New York has raised more than $290m (£180m) This is the second highest result for the auction house, following the sale last year (2012) of Munch’s ‘The Scream’ which set a world auction record for any work of art, realising $119.9 million. The highest prices achieved […]
6 November 2013
Christies’ has set a world record with a portrait of Alberto Giacometti’s brother Diego, achieving $33m, a record for one of the artist’s paintings. This week’s auctions of Impressionist and Modern Art have realised a running tally of $258 million, with the Works on Paper and Day Sales completing the series today. Bidders from more […]
26 October 2013
Bonhams has opened a brand new £30 million headquarters building at 101 New Bond Street. The official launch took place last night (24 October) in the presence of London Mayor, Boris Johnson. Speaking at a packed reception in the new building, the Mayor said, “Why do buyers come here? It’s not just the time zone, […]
22 October 2013
The 7th edition of PAD London has truly mastered the spirit of eclecticism in a record year for the fair. With the addition of Antiquities, Japanese Art, the mix of genres and the exquisitely curated environment proved inspiring to the public, first-time buyers and collectors alike. An illustrious opening night proved auspicious for a week […]
21 October 2013
More than eleven Brazilian galleries have chosen to come to London for Frieze week. Many will move on to Paris for next week’s FIAC. This is just the tip of the iceberg with ten in Bogota (Colombia) galleries exhibiting with the support of the internationalization Project that was made by LATITUDE – Platform for Brazilian […]
19 October 2013
Christie’s London Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 18 October 2013 realised a total including Buyer’s Premium: 27,788,900 GBP. It featured a collaborative work by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol from the prestigious collection of Oliver Stone, the film director whose credits include Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, Nixon […]
18 October 2013
An important auction of contemporary sculpture and installation work was offered from the Saatchi Gallery collection this week at Christies. It realised a total of £3,086,350 / $4,935,074 / €3,635,720. The sale offered 50 works with no reserves and no estimates. Proceeds from the auction will support the Saatchi Gallery’s continuing policy for free entry […]
12 October 2013
An early hand painted Andy Warhol Coca-Cola bottle is going under the hammer at Christie’s Contemporary Art Evening sale in New York. Carrying an estimate of $40,000,000-60,000,000, Coca Cola (3) has resided within the same private collection for almost two decades, and has been featured prominently in every major Warhol exhibition. It will be on […]
10 October 2013
Francis Bacon’s portrait of the artist Lucian Freud may set a new record for the painters work, when it goes under the hammer at Christie’s auctioneers, in New York, in November. It is expected to sell in the region of $85m (£53m). Painted in 1969 the three panelled work, known as a triptych,depicts studies of […]
10 October 2013
Christie’s has announced that it will be offering 32 works from the Estate of the British artist David Bomberg (1890 – 1957) as part of their Modern British and Irish Art sale on 21 November. Proceeds of the sale will benefit Hadassah, a registered charity dedicated to raising funds for Hadassah Medical Organisation in Jerusalem. […]
4 October 2013
Sotheby’s is auctioning the seminal Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) by Andy Warhol as the outstanding highlight of their New York contemporary auction season. At over 8 ft. by 13 ft., the monumental painting is one of only four Car Crash works of this scale in the pivotal Death and Disaster series and the only […]
3 October 2013
The Billionaire hedge fund manager Dan Loeb has spoken out about Sotheby’s lack of vision and has called for the resignation of William Ruprecht, chairman, president and CEO of the auction house, which was founded in 1744. Expressing a shortfall in leadership, excessive pay and perks, and the fact that rival Christie’s has outperformed the […]
29 September 2013
A second abstract painting by the German artist Gerhard Richter, owned by the ageing rock star Eric Clapton will go under the hammer at Christie’s auctioneers this autumn. Last year, ‘Abstraktes Bild (809-4)’ was sold to an anonymous buyer for £21,321,250, setting a record price for any living artist. Clapton purchased three major works by […]
22 September 2013
Sotheby’s has announced a major addition to their highly lucrative American Art auction in New York on 4 December 2013. They will be offering some of the most important original paintings by Norman Rockwell from the family of Kenneth J. Stuart Sr., the artist’s longtime friend and art editor at the Saturday Evening Post. The […]