LONDON.- A full sale room, busy telephone lines and fierce bidding resulted in a sale total of £3.2 million at the Bonhams Fine Jewellery sale in New Bond Street yesterday (13th April). The top lot of the sale was an impressive pair of brilliant- cut …
Pink Diamond Expected to Fetch Up to $15 Million Fails to Sell at Christie’s Auction
NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS).- A more than 10 carat purplish-pink diamond expected to fetch up to $15 million failed to sell at Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction on Tuesday which took in a total of $31.8 million. “We were disappointed that the 10-carat p…
10.09 Carats Fancy Vivid Purple-Pink Diamond to Highlight Christie’s New York Jewels Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Perhaps no greater phenomenon has electrified the global jewelry market in the past year than the skyrocketing prices achieved for large pink diamonds at auction. In the last 15 months, four pink diamonds have fetched more than US$1 mil…
Paintings by Brian Rutenberg on Display at the Morris Museum
AUGUSTA, GA.- I Will Tell You a Place: Paintings by Brian Rutenberg, opened Saturday, January 29, 2011 at Augusta’s Morris Museum of Art. The exhibition—twenty -four brilliantly colored abstract paintings in oil inspired by the low-country o…
Paul Kasmin Presents Dual Exhibition of New Works and Iconic Paintings by Kenny Scharf
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents a two-fold exhibition of works by the renowned pop artist Kenny Scharf, on view at the gallery’s Chelsea locations from January 27th through February 26, 2011. NATURAFUTURA, a new series of large-scale …
Paul Kasmin Presents Dual Exhibition of New Works and Iconic Paintings by Kenny Scharf
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents a two-fold exhibition of works by the renowned pop artist Kenny Scharf, on view at the gallery’s Chelsea locations from January 27th through February 26, 2011. NATURAFUTURA, a new series of large-scale …
Egyptian Archaeologists Discover 4,300-Year-Old Tombs with Vivid Wall Paintings
SAQQARA (AP).- Egyptian archaeologists on Thursday unveiled
a newly-unearthed double tomb with vivid wall paintings in the ancient
necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo, saying it could be the start for
uncovering a
vast cemetery in the area. The t…
Architect Jean Nouvel Brings Splash of Red to UK Gallery
LONDON (REUTERS).- French architect Jean Nouvel has brought a vivid splash of red to London’s Serpentine Gallery with an asymmetric structure featuring red table tennis tables among activities on offer to visitors. The structure, Nouvel’s first complet…