DALLAS, TX- A 1928 Chinese “Auto Dollar” Year 17 KM-Y428, L&M-609, AU58 PCGS brought $74,750 – a record price for the type – as one of the top lots in Heritage Auctions’ $9.6+ million April 14-18 Rosemont, IL Signature(r) World & Ancient Coins Auction,…
Archives of American Art Receives Second Multimillion Dollar Grant to Support Digitization Project
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Terra Foundation for American Art has awarded a $3 million grant to the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art to support another five years of the Archives’ digitization project and to fund a new position that will create and …
Sotheby’s Sales of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings Totals US$13.8 Million
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Spring 2011 sale of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings today fetched a stunning total of HK$108 million / US$13.8 million, tripling pre-sale estimate (HK$36 million / US$4.6 million*). The sale set the world re…
Sotheby’s HK Spring 2011 Sales of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings Totals US$13.8 Million
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Spring 2011 sale of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings today fetched a stunning total of HK$108 million / US$13.8 million, tripling pre-sale estimate (HK$36 million / US$4.6 million*). The sale set the world re…
Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art Auction at Antik A.S. Totals $ 9.5 Million
ISTANBUL.- Antik A.S. in Istanbul, the sale of Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art totals of $9,500,000 within the presale estimate of $6 million. Competition was fierce for many of the top lots, with multiple bidders participating. Erol Akyavas’s…
Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art Auction at Antik A.S. Totals $ 9.5 Million
ISTANBUL.- Antik A.S. in Istanbul, the sale of Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art totals of $9,500,000 within the presale estimate of $6 million. Competition was fierce for many of the top lots, with multiple bidders participating. Erol Akyavas’s…
Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art Auction at Antik A.S. Totals $ 9.5 Million
ISTANBUL.- Antik A.S. in Istanbul, the sale of Modern and Contemporary Turkish Art totals of $9,500,000 within the presale estimate of $6 million. Competition was fierce for many of the top lots, with multiple bidders participating. Erol Akyavas’s…
Sotheby’s to Offer for Sale The Celebrated Collection of Stuart Cary Welch
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s will offer for sale the outstanding and scholarly collection of Islamic and Indian Art assembled by the late Stuart Cary Welch. This celebrated collection, which is estimated to realise in excess of £6 million*, will be o…
Rhode Island Man Accused in $6M Con Says Witnesses Lied
By: Ian MacDougall, Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP).- As his trial drew to a close, a former Rhode Island art dealer said Friday that witnesses lied to the jury in claiming he duped them in what prosecutors call a $6 million con. Rocco DeSimone …
Sale at Christie’s Offers Superb Chinese Works Largely Unseen for Thirty Years
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 24, Christie’s New York presents Magnificent Qing Monochrome and Earlier Works of Art from the Gordon Collection, a single-owner sale highlighted by a group of magnificent imperial monochrome-glazed porcelains from the Qing…