LONDON.- Tate Modern has installed a 10-tonne sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, containing approximately eight million individually hand-crafted porcelain sunflower seeds. On loan from the artist, Sunflower Seeds is shown as part of the free displ…
Rare Centennial Vase and Malcolm Forbes Botanicals Lead $1+ Million Heritage Decorative Arts Auction
DALLAS, TX.- A Karl Müller-designed and signed Union Porcelain Works Centennial Vase, manufactured in Greenpoint, NY, circa 1876-1885, sold for $47,800 on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 to lead Heritage Auctions’ Signature® Decorative Arts & Design and Gent…
Sotheby’s to Offer the Evill/Frost Collection of 20th-Century British Art in Three-Part Sale
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London presents the sale of the greatest collection of 20th-Century British Art ever to come to the market: The Evill/Frost Collection, a stand-alone three-part sale which launches with an Evening Sale on Wednesday 15th June 201…
Sotheby’s to Sell a Superb Regency Table, Almost Certainly from Napoleon Bonaparte’s Home
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announces that the auction of Porcelain, Furniture & Decorative Arts from The Evill/Frost Collection on 16th June 2011, will offer an exceptional Regency gilt-bronze, brass inlaid table, which is believed to have been…
Sotheby’s London to Sell a Superb Regency Table, Almost Certainly from Napoleon Bonaparte’s Home in Exile
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announces that the auction of Porcelain, Furniture & Decorative Arts from The Evill/Frost Collection on 16th June 2011, will offer an exceptional Regency gilt-bronze, brass inlaid table, which is believed to have been…
Bonhams & Butterfields to Offer Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On June 13, 2011 at Bonhams & Butterfields in Los Angeles, the firm will offer Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts. Highlights from the 550-lot sale will include property from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with a focus…
Sotheby’s Sells Record $447 Million of Asian Art
HONG KONG.- Auction giant Sotheby’s (BID.N) sold $447 million worth of Asian art, wine, watches and jewellery in its Asian spring sales, in another bullish showing for the Chinese art market despite weak results for a monumental collection of Chinese c…
Ceramics Produce Fireworks During Garth’s March Americana Auction
DELAWARE, OH.- The firing of objects made from earthenware, porcelain, and stoneware comprise the larger category known as ceramics and during Garth’s March 11-12, 2011 Americana auction, the ceramics definitely provided continual fireworks as bid…
Sotheby’s Offers the Greatest Collection of 20th-Century British Art Ever to Come to the Market
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announced the sale of the greatest collection of 20th-Century British Art ever to come to the market: The Evill/Frost Collection, a stand-alone three-part sale which launches with an Evening Sale on Wednesday 15th June 20…
Sotheby’s London to Offer the Greatest Collection of 20th-Century British Art Ever to Come to the Market
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announced the sale of the greatest collection of 20th-Century British Art ever to come to the market: The Evill/Frost Collection, a stand-alone three-part sale which launches with an Evening Sale on Wednesday 15th June 20…