The Russians are coming. The multi-million pound herd of buyers who stampede around the world in pursuit of the art market’s “next big thing” is rushing this weekend to buy into what they hope will be the latest bubble: Russian art. Natalia Goncharova, who died in 1962, was already the highest selling female artist at [...]
Marcel Wanders Bon Bon Gold Sotheby’s announced a new and exciting collaboration with Sudeley Castle with an inaugural selling exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary design to be staged in the spectacular grounds of the estate from Friday 28 May to Sunday 1 August 2010. The Sotheby’s selling exhibition, arranged in association with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, will [...]
To the untutored eye little is different about “The Actor,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rare Rose Period Picasso, other than that it is now safely behind plexiglass. It’s virtually impossible to tell that on a January afternoon a woman taking an adult education class accidentally fell into the canvas, causing a six-inch vertical tear [...]
Irving Penn, John F. Kennedy, Washington, D.C., 1960, gelatin silver print, printed 1984, 15 x 15in. Estimate: $25,000 – 35,000. © 1961 (renewed 1979) Condé Nast Publications Inc. Over the past two days, three important auctions of photographs were held at Christie’s New York, including two significant single-owner sales with dedicated individual catalogues, Three Decades [...]
It was a big story in late 2007: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was suing celebrated architect Frank Gehry, alleging serious flaws in the design of his Stata Center, a science building of boldly angled walls and swooping curves on the Cambridge, Mass. campus. Among the alleged problems: leaks throughout the building, mold growing [...]
Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519). La Bella Principessa, ca. 1480-90. ‘Picture kept in a drawer ‘is £100m da Vinci’.” That’s how the article in The Sunday Times on July 27, 2008 breathlessly reported the incredible story of how the Paris-based American dealer Peter Silverman discovered a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. Visiting [...]
Edvard Munch (1863-1945), Fertility, oil on canvas. Estimate: $25,000,000 – 35,000,000 Christie’s announced it will offer Edvard Munch’s Fertility (estimate: $25-35 million) – one of the most important works by the artist remaining in private hands – as the cover lot of its upcoming Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on May 4. Painted [...]