NEW YORK, NY.- On Dec 3, Christie’s will offer a very rare first edition of the lyrics and music of the Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key (estimate: $200,000-300,000) as part of its autumn Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana …
Rare First Edition of the Star Spangled Banner to Be Sold at Christie’s in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- On Dec 3, Christie’s will offer a very rare first edition of the lyrics and music of the Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key (estimate: $200,000-300,000) as part of its autumn Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana …
Rarities and Rediscoveries: Great Works of Art at TEFAF Maastricht in March 2011
HELVOIRT.- TEFAF Maastricht has built its reputation as the world’s most influential art and antiques fair on the unique quality of its exhibits. The 24th edition at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands …
Rarities and Rediscoveries: Great Works of Art at TEFAF Maastricht in March 2011
HELVOIRT.- TEFAF Maastricht has built its reputation as the world’s most influential art and antiques fair on the unique quality of its exhibits. The 24th edition at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands …
Collection of American Furniture, Paintings and Works on Paper Acquired by the National Gallery
WASHINGTON, DC.- One of the largest and most refined collections of early American furniture in private hands, as well as major Dutch paintings, American paintings, and works on paper, including some 40 floral watercolors by Redouté, acquired with gre…
Sotheby’s to Offer Most Important Work by Titian to Appear at Auction in Nearly Twenty Years
NEW YORK, NY.- A monumental work by the Renaissance master Titian will be offered early next year in Sotheby’s sale of Important Old Master Paintings in New York on 27 January 2011. A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and…
Christie’s Sale in Dubai Features Works from Around the Middle East & Turkey
DUBAI.- Christie’s October 26th, 2010 Dubai sale of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art is blessed with a further selection of works from the renowned Farsi Collection, one of the most comprehensive groups of modern Egyptian art in private …
Sotheby’s to Sell Paintings Depicting Tipu Sultan’s Victory Over the British at the Battle of Pollilur in 1780
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that on the 230th anniversary of the renowned Battle of Pollilur in India, which took place on 10th September 1780, Sotheby’s London, in its biannual Arts of the Islamic World Sale on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, will o…
Sotheby’s to Sell Paintings Depicting Tipu Sultan’s Victory Over the British at the Battle of Pollilur in 1780
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that on the 230th anniversary of the renowned Battle of Pollilur in India, which took place on 10th September 1780, Sotheby’s London, in its biannual Arts of the Islamic World Sale on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, will o…
Former Director of the Nelson-Atkins Ted Coe has Died
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Ralph T. Coe, the third Director of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and one of the nation’s foremost authorities on American Indian art, died Tuesday in Santa Fe, N.M. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Ted Coe,”…