NEW YORK (REUTERS)- A new exhibit featuring massive statues, dragon-shaped roof ridge ornaments and art from the Yuan dynasty gives visitors a glimpse of ancient China that the first Westerners would have seen 700 years ago. “The World of Khubilai Khan…
Private California Collection of Impressionist Paintings Highlights Christie’s Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced it has been selected to offer The Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein Collection as part of its major fall 2010 and spring 2011 sales in New York and Hong Kong. Assembled over more than four decades by Walter Shorenstein,…
World of Khubilai Khan Revealed in New Exhibit at the Metropolitan
NEW YORK (REUTERS)- A new exhibit featuring massive statues, dragon-shaped roof ridge ornaments and art from the Yuan dynasty gives visitors a glimpse of ancient China that the first Westerners would have seen 700 years ago. “The World of Khubilai Khan…
Private California Collection of Impressionist Paintings Highlights Christie’s Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced it has been selected to offer The Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein Collection as part of its major fall 2010 and spring 2011 sales in New York and Hong Kong. Assembled over more than four decades by Walter Shorenstein,…
Sotheby’s Presents Sale of Modern and Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that its strongest Modern and Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art Sale ever staged by the company, will take place in London on Wednesday, October 20, 2010. In terms of the quality and range of works of art on offer, the 83 l…
Sotheby’s Presents Its Strongest Ever Sale of Modern and Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that its strongest Modern and Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art Sale ever staged by the company, will take place in London on Wednesday, October 20, 2010. In terms of the quality and range of works of art on offer, the 83 l…
Christie’s New York Announces Highlights of Dennis Hopper Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s presents The Dennis Hopper Collection. A veritable master within a range of categories, Dennis Hopper was at once an artist, a filmmaker, an actor, and a passionate art collector. Amassing more than 250 works of art throu…
Rare Chinese Woodblock Prints on Display at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Visitors to the Chinese painting galleries at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will see rarely viewed 17th-century Chinese woodblock prints that are the world’s earliest true color prints. Cultivating Nature: Printmaking for Paint…
Peter Blum Gallery Shows Works of Art by Matthew Day Jackson
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum presents the exhibitions The Tomb at the Soho gallery and In Search of at the Chelsea gallery. Both shows opened on Thursday, September 16th. This is Matthew Day Jackson’s second one-person show with the Peter Blum Galler…
Sotheby’s Asia Week Sales in New York Total $27,649,251
NEW YORK, NY.- The Asia week series of auctions at Sotheby’s New York concluded today with the South Asian Art sale which made $7,547,250 to bring the overall total for the week to $27,649,251 well within the $ 21.9/31.2 million estimate. The sale…