LONDON.- This autumn Sotheby’s will hold a once-in-a-lifetime sale at the most magnificent of all England’s stately homes – Chatsworth, in Derbyshire. Chatsworth: The Attic Sale – a three-day auction – will have in it all the ingred…
Sotheby’s Sales of Old Master & British Pictures Bring a Total of $94.5 Million
LONDON.- Sotheby’s summer sales series of Old Master & British pictures (paintings and drawings) concluded yesterday, having realised a total of £62,473,325 / $94,514,064 / €75,094,059 – a figure that is above pre-sale expectations (overall …
The Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles at Sotheby’s
LONDON.- One of the highlights of
Sotheby’s fall
2010 Asia Week sales in New York will be a single owner offering of the
Joe
Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles on 14 September 2010. The
bottles
date from as early as the beginni…
J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires Turner Masterpiece at Sotheby’s for Record $45.10 Million
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum
announced today that it made a successful bid at auction on J.M.W
Turner’s
masterpiece painting Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino. The auction took place
at
Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday, July 7. One…
Sotheby’s to Sell Rediscovered Drawing by John William Waterhouse
LONDON.- On Thursday, 13th July, in Sotheby’s London sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art, a newly discovered drawing by John William Waterhouse (1849‐1917) will spearhead the selection of works on paper. Unrecorded in the literature on the a…
The Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles at Sotheby’s New York
LONDON.- One of the highlights of Sotheby’s fall 2010 Asia Week sales in New York will be a single owner offering of the Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles on 14 September 2010. The bottles date from as early as the beginning of the …
J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires Turner Masterpiece at Sotheby’s for a Record $45.10 Million
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that it made a successful bid at auction on J.M.W Turner’s masterpiece painting Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino. The auction took place at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday, July 7. One of the great…
Sotheby’s Sets Record for English Silver – Cooler Sells for 2.5 Million Pounds
LONDON.- The most important piece of English silver to come to the market in 50 Years, a monumental silver wine cooler, weighing 168 pounds (11 ½ stone or 2597 oz.) and measuring well over a meter across, sold this evening at Sotheby’s for £2,50…
Sotheby’s to Sell Contrasting Depictions of Victorian London
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London sale of
Victorian and
Edwardian Art on Thursday, 13th July 2010, will present two paintings
that
provide a fascinating glimpse into Victorian life as it would have been
experienced by London residents at the time. P…
Detailed Drawing of London’s Old St. Paul’s Cathedral, to Be Sold at Sotheby’s
LONDON.- A remarkable previously undocumented drawing by the Bohemian artist Wenceslaus Hollar which provides a unique visual record of the appearance of the East end of London’s Old St. Paul’s Cathedral, has been brought, unannounced, into S…