Art News
Princess Diana's Family Paintings Fetch $21.5 Million
Bloomberg
The equivalent auction last year - the first in Christie's new format of
Old Master and 19th-century paintings and drawings - fetched 20.3 million
pounds …
Diplomats' wives put Faberge eggs under the hammer to help Russian …
RT
"An auction of fine art donated from museums and private collections helped
to raise some of the funds as the expat community sought to give something
back …
Historic million dollar jewels headline NY auction
Washington Post
"Art and jewelry were more resilient than any other sector in the … set a
new per-carat record when it went under the hammer for a total $7.7
million. …
Rothko, Matisse among top lots at Sotheby's NY
Reuters
… under the hammer as part of the May 5 impressionist and modern art
auction. … for further signs of the recent strong recovery in art market
prices, …
Asian Art Auction Sets Records for Artists
New York Times
On Monday, a work by Liu Ye, a well-known contemporary Chinese artist, went
under the hammer for $2.45 million, almost three times the pre-auction
estimate. …
Carla Bruni's bum is going under the hammer!
Bild.com
The motto of the auction is 'sex'! At the auction, 220 pieces of erotic art
will go under the hammer – some chaste and mild, others wild and obscene. …
Monroe-inspired shoes made of pans -The Press Association
Marilyn is part of the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale which takes place on Thursday at 7pm, offering 52 lots with a total pre-sale estimate of …
At London Sale, a Giacometti Sets a Record New York Times
By CAROL VOGEL One of Alberto Giacometti's best-loved bronzes, "Walking Man I," has broken the world record price for a work of art at auction, …
Picasso portrait fetches £8.1m at Christie's auction -BBC News
A Picasso masterpiece unseen in public for 43 years has gone under the hammer at auctioneers Christie's for £8.1m. Tete de Femme (Jacqueline) had been …
Impressionist art under the hammer | Video | Reuters.com
Impressionist art under the hammer. (01:01) Rough Cut … The auction will also feature paintings by Henri Matisse, Rene Magritte and Joan Miro among others, while sculptures on … Most Recent. Embed this channel: Most Recent Feed RSS …
Rembrandt, Raphael Set for Records in $133 Million London Sales
Bloomberg
This contrasts with estimates for contemporary art, which have been slashed by as much as 50 percent after the financial crisis. "Prices at
auction are very …
"Tate Modern Announces "Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective"
Art Daily
Highlights will include Landscape Table, circa 1945 (Centre Pompidou) and the three
paintings of The Betrothal series 1947 (Yale University Art Gallery, …
"A Robust Recovery" at Christie's Hong Kong
ARTINFO
29 evening sale of contemporary Asian art and 20th century works, a centerpiece of each season, delivered a 44 percent
increase over results from earlier …
A taste for the classics
China Daily
Another 14 works of Chinese painting and calligraphy from their collection went under the hammer at the Poly
autumn auction. It is notable that the couple …
The art market: Street cred for Caro
Financial Times
Bruce Nauman's neon piece, $Violins Violence Silence$
(1981-82),offered at Sotheby's contemporary art
auction in New York earlier this month, …
Snap it up
Financial Times - London,England,UK
It was a coarse, dealer-orientated attempt to identify a new
"emerging market" … Rudolf Kicken from Berlin leads a
smaller but strong European contingent …
Damien Hirst brings home the Bacon, but it's just ham
Times Online
… auction house to be dedicated to the work of one artist, marked the
point of maximum inflation of the contemporary-art bubble. Even as the
hammer fell, …
King Kong, Bond's Sunglasses, Hepburn's Dress on Sale
Bloomberg
The presale low estimate had been 1.6 million pounds, based on hammer prices.
Auctioneer Simon de Pury, accompanied by musician Matthew Herbert in a DJ …
