Archive for the ‘Auctions’ Category
Bonhams will give over its Madison Avenue location to “Africa Now: Contemporary African Art,” a first auction of recent African artworks.
1198 via ARTINFO
Hoping to find new growth and fresh hype, Sotheby's hopes to propel young Dutch designers into international stars.
1177 via Fast Company
Polaroid Corporation will send its photography collection to the block, which includes work by many of the century’s leading practitioners.
1133 via ARTINFO
Both day and evening sales at Phillips de Pury London raised $10,096,428 (before buyer’s premiums).
1056 via The Art Collectors
A bronze sculpture, entitled L’Homme qui marche I, by Alberto Giacometti became the most expensive work ever sold at auction.
994 via Art Observed
Masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt and Henri Matisse will go under the hammer this week at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in UK.
983 via Art Observed
Christie’s and Sotheby’s battle for an estimated $100 to $150 million worth of artworks from the estate of Frances Lasker Brody.
977 via Lindsay Pollock
Expectations were high for the Old Master auctions that took place last week at Sotheby’s and Christie’s in New York.
972 via Art Observed
Old Master & 19th Century Art sale in London in December realized £68,380,250 - the highest ever total for an Old Masters auction.
952 via Art Observed
The hell-raising son of a Christie's baron Henry Allsopp will become a contemporary specialist at the house's competitor.
949 via ARTINFO
A self-portrait of Lucian Freud nursing a black eye after a fight with a taxi driver is to go up for auction for an estimated $6.5 million.
873 via Evening Standard
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Sotheby's unveiled 3 impressionist and modern art masterpieces which are to be auctioned on February 3rd in London.
817 via Guardian
Portrait of a Woman Called "La Belle Ferronnière" is set to be auctioned at Sotheby’s on Jan. 28 (est. $300-500k).
811 via ARTINFO
Auction sales of high-value works by Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst dropped 50% in 2009. It may take a decade to recover.
761 via Bloomberg
Rembrandt’s "Portrait of a Man, Half-Length, With His Arms Akimbo" (1658) might have been sold to Steve Wynn for $33.2 million.
722 via ARTINFO
Annual sales of contemporary art slumped 75 percent at Sotheby's and Christie's evening sales in 2009 - made a total of $482.3 million.
714 via Washington Post
Hugh Grant confessed that he was drunk when he ordered an assistant to bid at Sotheby's for a Warhol that he later sold for £13m.
661 via Guardian
As supply diminishes and demand increases for Old Master works, sales at the auctions in London may be remembered as significant.
647 via Art Observed
Russia's State Hermitage Museum last night bought 92 watercolor portraits valued at $4.8 million from the Paris-based Popoff Collection.
636 via Bloomberg
Raphael's "Head of a Muse" (1508-11) went for £29.1 million ($47.9 million), the highest price ever paid for a drawing at auction.
631 via ARTINFO
Thanks to MOCA's online auction Lady GaGa's costume, mask and hat could be yours - all bids close on November 30, 2009 at 11:59pm.
478 via MOCA
