Employees pose for photographers on an early Victorian private coach capable of transporting around ten people at Christie’s South Kensington in London. The carriage was auctioned in the Althorp Attic Sale, and is one of the carriages among the highlights of selection of works from Althorp and Spencer House, the historic London home of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Henry Herbert La Thangue, Ligurian Grapes. Estimate: £200,000-300,000. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2010. The vitality of the market for Victorian & British Pictures including Drawings & Watercolours continues to gain notable momentum, as demonstrated by the multiple world auction records set at the December 2009 sale where ‘spirited bidding from buyers swept up with Victorian [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
