Vienna – A stolen Gustav Klimt painting worth £26m plus that was confiscated by the Nazis must be returned to the heirs of a Canadian Jewish family. It has been in the collection of a well known Austrian museum (the Museum of Modern Arts in Saltbu…
Major Pieces from Private Collections of American Indian Art Offered at Sotheby’s
NEW YORK.- Sotheby’s 18 May 2011 sale of American Indian Art in New York will include major pieces from a number of distinguished private collections including The Bruce and Nancy Berman Collection of Navajo Blankets, paintings from the Hascoe Fam…
The BAT Artventure Collection Part Two Realizes $ 4,198,489 at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- The sale of the world-renowned BAT ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Part Two, realized a total of €2,941,725 / £2,582,732/ $4,198,489, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €1 mill…
Sotheby’s Geneva 17th May Sale of Magnificent & Noble Jewels to Present an Important Pink Diamond
GENEVA.- Sotheby’s Geneva announces that it will present an important pink diamond, weighing 10.99 carats in its sale of Magnificent & Noble Jewels on 17 May 2011 six months after the record breaking sale of the ‘Graff Pink’ – the most e…
Major Pieces from Private Collections of American Indian Art Offered at Sotheby’s
NEW YORK.- Sotheby’s 18 May 2011 sale of American Indian Art in New York will include major pieces from a number of distinguished private collections including The Bruce and Nancy Berman Collection of Navajo Blankets, paintings from the Hascoe Fam…
Sotheby’s Geneva 17th May sale of Magnificent & Noble Jewels To present An Important Pink Diamond
GENEVA.- Sotheby’s Geneva announces that it will present an important pink diamond, weighing 10.99 carats in its sale of Magnificent & Noble Jewels on 17 May 2011 six months after the record breaking sale of the ‘Graff Pink’ – the most e…
Sotheby’s Hong Kong to Sell Mei Yun Tang Collection of Paintings by Chang Dai-chien
HONG KONG.- Following the success of the Spring 2011 Sale Series in April, Sotheby’s Hong Kong announces yet another important sale – The Mei Yun Tang Collection of Paintings by Chang Daichien – on 31 May 2011. The sale features 25 prominent paint…
Photographs from the Heinz Hajek-Halke Estate to Be Sold at Sotheby’s in Paris
LONDON.- On 10 May 2011, Sotheby’s European Photographs department will hold two Photographs sales: L’Essentiel Heinz Hajek-Halke an auction which comprises the most compelling vintage prints from the 1920s to the 1950s of this German avant-g…
Sotheby’s London to Offer Magnificent Nineteenth Century Life-Size Marble Sculptures
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London is to offer perhaps the most magnificent nineteenth-century sculpture to appear at auction in recent years. Chioma di Berenice (Berenice’s Tresses) by Ambrogio Borghi (Italian, 1849-1887) comes to the market from a Privat…
The BAT Artventure Collection Part Two Realises $ 4,198,489 at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- The sale of the world-renowned BAT ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Part Two, realised a total of €2,941,725 / £2,582,732/ $4,198,489, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €1 m…