DENVER, PA.- A top-tier private collection of gold, platinum and precious-gem jewelry amassed over several decades will be featured in a single-session, no-reserve specialty auction at Morphy’s gallery on Feb. 26, 2011. The collection – whose…
Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali Works Boost Bumper Sotheby’s "Looking Closely" Sale
LONDON.- A triptych of British painter Lucian Freud by his friend Francis Bacon fetched 23 million pounds ($37 million) on Thursday at a Sotheby’s auction in London, more than double its high estimate. Combined with a new auction record for any surrea…
Fine Jewelry Auction at Morphy’s Features Private Collection of Florida Jewelers
DENVER, PA.- A top-tier private collection of gold, platinum and precious-gem jewelry amassed over several decades will be featured in a single-session, no-reserve specialty auction at Morphy’s gallery on Feb. 26, 2011. The collection – whose…
Sotheby’s to Auction 106 Monumental Early Works by Contemporary Chinese Artists
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong announces the sale of an important private collection of contemporary Chinese Art on 3 April: The Ullens Collection – The Nascence of Avant Garde China, offering 106 masterpieces from the legendary Collection, …
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- An important international exhibition, “Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection” opens at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) February 6 and runs through May 15. Additionally, t…
Ryan O’Neal Donates Farrah Fawcett’s Red Swimsuit to Museum of American History
WASHINGTON, D.C.- In a special ceremony today, actress Farrah Fawcett’s nephew, Greg Walls, and actor Ryan O’Neal donated objects from the private collection of her estate to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The don…
Ryan O’Neal Donates Farrah Fawcett’s Red Swimsuit to Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
WASHINGTON, D.C.- In a special ceremony today, actress Farrah Fawcett’s nephew, Greg Walls, and actor Ryan O’Neal donated objects from the private collection of her estate to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The donation inc…
The Mauritshuis Acquires Unique Painting by Jan Steen from a Private Collection
THE HAGUE.- The Mauritshuis has acquired the exceptional history painting, Moses and Pharaoh’s Crown by Jan Steen (1626-1679), from a private collection. The museum already owns a superb collection of fourteen paintings by Steen, including undisp…
Clark Art Institute Investigates European Portraiture in the Exhibition Eye to Eye
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- A special exhibition of European portrait painting, featuring works by master artists from the late fifteenth century through the early nineteenth century, is on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute from January 23 t…
Andy Warhol Portraits of Prince Charles and Princess Diana for Sale at Opera Gallery
LONDON (AP).- A London art gallery says it is putting on sale two portraits by artist Andy Warhol, created to celebrate the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. The Opera Gallery in London says it acquired the original artworks from a private …