NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, May 12 Swann Galleries will conduct a two-session auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books, and 19th & 20th Century Literature. The sale begins at 10:30 a.m. with a selection of architecture and art journals, livres d’…
Phillips de Pury & Co. Announces Highlights from New York Contemporary May Sales
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced the highlights from the May Contemporary Art Part I and Contemporary Art Part II sales. The sales will feature important and iconic modern and contemporary works. Contemporary Art Part I includes 51 l…
Stolen Klimt Worth At Least $27 Million Returned After 70 Years To Jewish Heir
Vienna – A stolen Gustav Klimt painting worth £26m plus that was confiscated by the Nazis must be returned to the heirs of a Canadian Jewish family. It has been in the collection of a well known Austrian museum (the Museum of Modern Arts in Saltbu…
Major Pieces from Private Collections of American Indian Art Offered at Sotheby’s
NEW YORK.- Sotheby’s 18 May 2011 sale of American Indian Art in New York will include major pieces from a number of distinguished private collections including The Bruce and Nancy Berman Collection of Navajo Blankets, paintings from the Hascoe Fam…
Sotheby’s Geneva 17th May Sale of Magnificent & Noble Jewels to Present an Important Pink Diamond
GENEVA.- Sotheby’s Geneva announces that it will present an important pink diamond, weighing 10.99 carats in its sale of Magnificent & Noble Jewels on 17 May 2011 six months after the record breaking sale of the ‘Graff Pink’ – the most e…
Major Pieces from Private Collections of American Indian Art Offered at Sotheby’s
NEW YORK.- Sotheby’s 18 May 2011 sale of American Indian Art in New York will include major pieces from a number of distinguished private collections including The Bruce and Nancy Berman Collection of Navajo Blankets, paintings from the Hascoe Fam…
Sotheby’s Geneva 17th May sale of Magnificent & Noble Jewels To present An Important Pink Diamond
GENEVA.- Sotheby’s Geneva announces that it will present an important pink diamond, weighing 10.99 carats in its sale of Magnificent & Noble Jewels on 17 May 2011 six months after the record breaking sale of the ‘Graff Pink’ – the most e…
The Cat that Got the Cream at Bonhams Hockney Ceramic Sale Makes £34,000
LONDON.- A rare earthenware ceramic cat made by David Hockney in 1955 sold for an astonishing £33,600 at Bonhams today (20 April) against a pre sale estimate of £5,000 -7,000. Although Hockney experimented with ceramics in his youth, the works rarel…
Photographs from the Heinz Hajek-Halke Estate to Be Sold at Sotheby’s in Paris
LONDON.- On 10 May 2011, Sotheby’s European Photographs department will hold two Photographs sales: L’Essentiel Heinz Hajek-Halke an auction which comprises the most compelling vintage prints from the 1920s to the 1950s of this German avant-g…
Sotheby’s London to Offer Magnificent Nineteenth Century Life-Size Marble Sculptures
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London is to offer perhaps the most magnificent nineteenth-century sculpture to appear at auction in recent years. Chioma di Berenice (Berenice’s Tresses) by Ambrogio Borghi (Italian, 1849-1887) comes to the market from a Privat…