LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s claimed a new auction record for Russian artist Ilya Repin on Monday when his 1875 canvas “A Parisian Cafe” fetched 4.5 million pounds at the start of Russian art week in London. The large-scale canvas, depicting a bustlin…
LONDON – Christie’s claimed a new auction record for Russian artist Ilya Repin on Monday when his 1875 canvas “A Parisian Cafe” fetched 4.5 million pounds ($7.4 million USD) at the start of Russian art week in London. The large-scale canvas, depic…
LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s claimed a new auction record for Russian artist Ilya Repin on Monday when his 1875 canvas “A Parisian Cafe” fetched 4.5 million pounds at the start of Russian art week in London. The large-scale canvas, depicting a bustlin…
LONDON (REUTERS).- An auction record for British painter Laurence Stephen Lowry was set on Thursday when his “The Football Match” from 1949 fetched 5.6 million pounds ($9.2 million) at Christie’s in London. The previous record for the artist best known…
LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s auctioneers will offer a portrait by Lucian Freud which it described as “seminal” in the career of the British artist at a sale in London on June 28. “Woman Smiling,” painted in 1958/9, is the only single portrait Freud ma…
