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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Henri Matisse, “Nu au coussin bleu”, 1924. Estimate: $20-30 million. NEW YORK (REUTERS).- One of the most valuable private art collections ever offered at auction, led by an $80 million Picasso, will be sold in May in a sign that the art market might soon flirt with the record levels seen before the financial crisis [...]

A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, featuring Superman’s debut, is shown. The record price for a comic book, already broken twice this year, has been shattered again. A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1 sold Monday for $1.5 million on the auction Web site ComicConnect.com. The [...]

Henri Matisse, “Nu au coussin bleu”, 1924. Estimate: $20-30 million. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd., 2010. Christie’s announced the sale of one of the greatest private American collections of Modern Art to come to auction: The Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody. Remarkable for its extraordinary depth and quality, the collection boasts a wealth of master [...]