LONDON.- Following the success of Part 1 of the Edward Wrangham Collection in November 2010, which realised over £2 million and included a world record price for an inro** sold at auction, Bonhams is delighted to announce the second sale of the collec…
Diane Arbus, Irving Penn & Christer Strömholm in See the World! at Moderna Museet
STOCKHOLM.- Moderna Museet is presenting the history of photography with this year’s radical rehanging of its permanent collection. 16 April was the opening day for the second instalment of Another Story: See the World!, including works by iconic …
Art Amsterdam This May Promises to be the Most International Yet
Amsterdam,- From the 11th until the 15th of May 2011, the 27th edition of Art Amsterdam will take place in the Amsterdam RAI Parkhal. With 133 galleries participating from throughout Europe, North America and Asia, Art Amsterdam is the largest conte…
Major Work by Constantinos Volanakis to Highlight Sotheby’s Greek Sale in May
LONDON.- Sotheby’s Greek Sale, on Monday, 9 May, 2011, will draw together an exceptional array of Greek art, with important examples of 19th and 20th-century masters such as Constantinos Volanakis, Konstantinos Maleas, and Nicos Hadjikiriakos-Ghik…
The Ukrainian Museum Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster
NEW YORK, NY.- The world’s worst nuclear disaster took place at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. Following an explosion in one of the plant’s reactors, a plume of radioactive fallout contaminated a huge area surroundi…
Extraordinary Example of 19th Century Naturalism Offered in Bonhams Fine Jewellery Sale
LONDON- A pink sapphire and diamond flower brooch, circa 1900, realistically modelled as a cyclamen is one of the highlights of the Fine Jewellery Sale held on the 13th April at Bonhams, New Bond Street. The brooch, from a private collection, is estima…
The 29th Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair Opens 28th April
Brussels, Belgium – Now in its 29th year, the Art Brussels art fair, which will run from Thursday 28 April to Sunday 1 May 2011 is already being heralded as a must-see event for all lovers of contemporary art. Art Brussels, the fair for established a…
Winners of 2011 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards Announced
BRUSSELS.- The 27 winners of the 2011 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards are announced today by the European Commission and Europa Nostra. The awards will be presented on 10 June during a ceremony at the Concertgebouw in …
Duelling Pistols at Bonhams: Objects of Beauty and Death
LONDON.- Today a gentleman no longer needs a set of duelling pistols, which means that Bonhams Antique Arms and Armour sale on April 20th is free to offer twelve sets of pistols estimated to sell for between £2,500 to £60,000, as items of historical …
One Hundred Masterpieces from the Städel Museum at Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni
ROME.- The exhibition presents, for the first time in Italy, a selection of works from the collection of the internationally renowned museum of Frankfurt, founded in 1815 through a bequest by merchant and banker Johann Friedrich Städel (1728-1816) and…