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…
Sotheby’s London to Unveil Ron Arad’s New Design as Part of a Selling Exhibition of Israeli Design
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announce the debut exhibition on Thursday, 5 May to Wednesday, 11 May, 2011 of the latest design project by celebrated designer Ron Arad in association with WMF: “Pirouette” cutlery. The exquisitely designed and crafted cutler…
Colombian Master Fernando Botero to Offer Solo Sale at Sotheby’s in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- On 25 May 2011 Sotheby’s will present a remarkable group of works by the Colombian master Fernando Botero in a single-artist evening sale. The auction, entitled Fernando Botero: A Celebration, takes place alongside A Discerning Eye:…
Major Work by Constantinos Volanakis to Highlight Sotheby’s Greek Sale in May
LONDON.- Sotheby’s Greek Sale, on Monday, 9 May, 2011, will draw together an exceptional array of Greek art, with important examples of 19th and 20th-century masters such as Constantinos Volanakis, Konstantinos Maleas, and Nicos Hadjikiriakos-Ghik…
Sotheby’s London to Unveil Ron Arad’s New Design as Part of a Selling Exhibition of Israeli Design
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announce the debut exhibition on Thursday, 5 May to Wednesday, 11 May, 2011 of the latest design project by celebrated designer Ron Arad in association with WMF: “Pirouette” cutlery. The exquisitely designed and crafted cutler…
Sotheby’s to Hold Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York in May
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 3 May 2011 in New York will offer an impressive range of paintings and sculpture from across the period. A spectacular group of 10 paintings by Pablo Picasso will be led by Femmes…
Sotheby’s London to Sell Important Scottish Skating Scene on Duddingston Loch
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London is to offer Skaters, A Scene on Duddingston Loch near Edinburgh by Scottish artist Charles Lees (1800‐1880) in its sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Tuesday, 17 May 2011. Estimated at £100,000‐200,000, the pa…