Nashville TN.- The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of “Fit to Print: Contemporary Poster Art From the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Collection”. The exhibition will open on Thursday, May 26 and wi…
Phillips de Pury & Company’s May Photographs Auction Totals £1,420,438 /$2,296,848
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company’s May Photographs sale totaled £1,420,438/$2,296,848 selling 80% by value and 67% by lot. “Strong works by leading photographers across the spectrum are continuing to command excellent prices. We are also…
Magnificent Masterpiece by Ilya Repin to Be Offered at Auction for the First Time by Christie’s
LONDON.- Ilya Repin’s magnificent A Parisian Café will lead Christie’s forthcoming Russian sale, which will take place on Monday 6 June in London. Painted in 1875, the work depicts a lively French café scene and represents a daring deviatio…
Large Scale Plan of The Titanic Up for Bids at Henry Aldridge and Son in Wiltshire
LONDON (AP).- A large-scale plan of the Titanic, prepared for the official inquiry into the ship’s sinking, is being offered at an auction in Britain. Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneers estimates that the 32.5-foot-long (9.9-meter) cross-section of the s…
American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture Bring $27.1 Million at Sotheby’s New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Today’s auction of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture at Sotheby’s New York achieved $27,124,125 in total, above a pre-sale low estimate of $25.3 million. Six of the paintings on offer brought prices over $1 million, and …
Bonhams Spring Auctions Offer Snuff Bottles, Soapstone Figures & Chinese Works of Art
HONG KONG.- Following on from the extraordinary results of Part I and Part II, in which every snuff bottle from the celebrated Mary and George Bloch Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles has sold, with world records broken in eleven different categories,…
More than 45 Extraordinary Works by Austrian Artist Egon Schiele at Richard Nagy Ltd.
LONDON.- More than forty-five extraordinary works by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, previously unseen in the UK, will be unveiled at Richard Nagy’s new gallery on Old Bond Street from 19 May – 30 June 2011. Much of the four thousand works Schi…
Sotheby’s London Sees Strong Prices for Spanish, Orientalist, German, Austrian and Central European Works
LONDON.- Sotheby’s sale of 19th Century European Paintings in London today (which included works by Spanish, Orientalist, German, Austrian and Central European artists) brought a total of £5,403,625 ($6,190,388). German, Austrian and Central Euro…
Extraordinary Works by Austrian Artist Egon Schiele at Richard Nagy Ltd.
LONDON.- More than forty-five extraordinary works by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, previously unseen in the UK, will be unveiled at Richard Nagy’s new gallery on Old Bond Street from 19 May – 30 June 2011. Much of the four thousand works Schiel…
Bonhams Spring Auctions Offer Snuff Bottles, Soapstone Figures & Chinese Works of Art
HONG KONG.- Following on from the extraordinary results of Part I and Part II, in which every snuff bottle from the celebrated Mary and George Bloch Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles has sold, with world records broken in eleven different categories,…