HONG KONG.- Christie’s announced the Evening and Day Sales of Chinese 20th Century Art will be held on 27-28 November at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Together with the Asian contemporary art sales, over 450 highly sought-after pie…
1970 Masterpiece by Wifredo Lam to Lead Sotheby’s November Latin American Art Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announced that the highlight of the 16 and 17 November sales of Latin American Art will be Wifredo Lam’s 1970 masterpiece Les Abalochas Dansent Pour Dhambala, dieu de l’unité (est. $1.75/2.25 million). The painting w…
Sotheby’s Hits Contemporary, Italian Art Targets with Combined Sales of $48.8 Million
LONDON (REUTERS).- Contemporary and Italian art sales in London last week largely underlined the sense that stability was gradually returning to a market that saw values soar in 2007 and 2008 before tumbling dramatically in 2009. Sotheby’s raised a com…
World Records for David Hockney, Aaron Young, Sterling Ruby & Dana Schutz at Phillips de Pury
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company’s October Contemporary Art sales totaled £8,819,900 /$14,129,480 (including premium). The Contemporary Art Day sale saw active bidding with strong results with many works achieving over their pre-sale high esti…
World Records for David Hockney, Aaron Young, Sterling Ruby & Dana Schutz at Phillips de Pury
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company’s October Contemporary Art sales totaled £8,819,900 /$14,129,480 (including premium). The Contemporary Art Day sale saw active bidding with strong results with many works achieving over their pre-sale high esti…
World Records for David Hockney, Aaron Young, Sterling Ruby & Dana Schutz at Phillips de Pury
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company’s October Contemporary Art sales totaled £8,819,900 /$14,129,480 (including premium). The Contemporary Art Day sale saw active bidding with strong results with many works achieving over their pre-sale high esti…
Qing Dynasty Vase Smashes World Record in Glowing China Art Sales at Sotheby’s
HONG KONG (REUTERS).- A Chinese Qing dynasty vase sold for HK$253 million (20.2 million pounds) in a Sotheby’s sale in Hong Kong on Thursday, a world record at auction for any Chinese porcelain. “This is definitely a milestone,” Nicolas Chow, the Deput…
Qing Dynasty Vase Smashes World Record in Glowing China Art Sales at Sotheby’s
HONG KONG (REUTERS).- A Chinese Qing dynasty vase sold for HK$253 million (20.2 million pounds) in a Sotheby’s sale in Hong Kong on Thursday, a world record at auction for any Chinese porcelain. “This is definitely a milestone,” Nicolas Chow, the Deput…
Sotheby’s Islamic Art Sales Series Achieves Record Sum of £25.3 ($40.3) Million
LONDON.- Sotheby’s Islamic Art Sales Series concluded this afternoon, realising an outstanding – above high estimate – total of £25,349,000 ($40,264,239) and a combined sell-through rate by lot of 64%. The total achieved represents a re…
A Life-Size Bronze Sculpture by Henri Matisse Could Fetch $35 Million at Auction
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A life-size bronze sculpture by Henri Matisse, which has never been sold at auction, is expected to be the star of the autumn art sales and could fetch up to $35 million, art experts said. Matisse’s “Back IV (Nu de Dos, 4eme etat)…