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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]