Detail from Edvard Munch’s Madonna The controversial artwork, in Munch’s famous swirling style, had been estimated to fetch £500,000 to £700,000 at Bonhams Prints sale in London. Bonhams said that as well as setting a UK record, the image was also the second most expensive print to be sold in the world. Another Munch work, [...]
Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto by Pablo Picasso The highest-profile piece sold was Picasso’s Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, purchased for £34,761,250 at the much anticipated sale by Christie’s on Wednesday evening. Picasso’s piece was from the collection of Lord Lloyd-Webber and was dropped from a New York sale four years ago at [...]
Edouard Manet’s Self-portrait With a Palette has been owned by such renowned collectors as Auguste Pellerin and Jakob Goldschmidt. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images An important Édouard Manet self-portrait – one of only two that the artist ever painted – set an auction record last night when it sold in London for £22.4m. The artist’s depiction [...]
A stone sculpture by Amedeo Modigliani has sold for €43 million (£36 million) at a Paris auction. “It’s a record for a work by the artist in any category,” said Christie’s, which organised the sale.
Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939), “Roses and Apples”. Estimate £100,000-150,000. Sold for £937,250. The mid-season Russian Art Sale took place today at Christie’s and realized £11,935,750 / $17,330,709 / €14,466,129 selling 76% by lot and 90% by value. The sale had a pre-sale estimate of £7 to £10 million. Enthusiasm and excitement for unique objects and paintings [...]
Christie’s mid-season Russian Art sale on 8 June will offer a strong section of more than 60 lots of Fabergé, including a private collection of 45 lots from a European Royal Family. Highlights of this fine and distinguished Royal collection include a two-colour gold-mounted nephrite table clock, with Henrik Wigström (estimate £80,000- 120,000) as well [...]
A 1932 Pablo Picasso painting of his mistress has sold for $106.5 million, a world record price for any work of art at auction. Pablo Picasso’s 1932 ‘Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust’ is seen at Christie’s auction house in New York. REUTERS “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,” which had a pre-sale estimate of between $70 [...]
