Impressive results for Pablo Picasso: Master Drawings and Living Contemporary auctions at Wright

CHICAGO, IL.- Pablo Picasso: Master Drawings from an Important Private Collection and Living Contemporary were two of the most anticipated sales in Wright’s spring auction season. On April 25, 2013 sales achieved outstanding results for modern and contemporary design and artwork. Comprised of 13 lots, Picasso: Master Drawings totaled $1.7M, selling 77% by lot and 87% by value. The top lot of this dedicated auction was a 1943 drawing of Picasso’s mistress, Dora Maar, entitled Buste de Femme (Lot 5). It sold for [...]

Prints by Bacon, Lichtenstein, and Warhol featured in Swann Galleries’ auction

NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, May 16, Swann Galleries will auction more than 215 examples of Contemporary Art, including unique pieces and multiples. The sale comes on the heels of the Frieze Art Fair and other spring art events in New York. The lot with the highest pre-sale estimate is a late 1960s Untitled painting of a horse by Maqbool Fida Husain, the modernist Indian painter. This grand and powerful piece exhibits the finest qualities of Husain’s celebrated horse paintings—sweeping, bold brushstrokes, a [...]

Sotheby’s Spring Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York to be held on 7 May

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s annual spring Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York will be held on 7 May 2013, led by seminal paintings by Paul Cézanne and Amedeo Modigliani from the Collection of Alex & Elisabeth Lewyt. The auction is further distinguished by: a powerful sculpture of Sylvette David by Pablo Picasso; three superb bronzes from Auguste Rodin’s iconic The Gates of Hell; a vibrant Fauve landscape by Georges Braque; an important painting from by Fernand Léger, sold [...]

Sotheby’s London to sell seminal work by Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt in sale of 19th Century European Paintings

LONDON.- On 23 May 2013 Sotheby’s London will offer a celebrated work by Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt in its sale of 19th Century European Paintings, along with other important works by Scandinavian artists. Painted in 1885, The Boys’ Workhouse, Helsinki comes to auction for the first time in almost thirty years, with an estimate of £350,000-450,000 (€411,000-530,000). The painting, which combines the influences of Edelfelt’s years in France with his innate love of his homeland, will be on public view in Helsinki on [...]

Christie’s in Paris to offer an important private collection of Orientalist art on 20 June

PARIS.- Christie’s will offer an outstanding collection of Orientalist Art at auction, which will take place at Christie’s Paris on 20 June 2013. A selection of masterpieces will be highlighted by the paintings of Etienne Dinet, Felix Philippoteaux and Frederick Arthur Bridgman. The entire sale is expected to realise between €6 million and €9 million. Lionel Gosset, Collections Department Director: “This collection pays a thrilling tribute to Etienne Dinet, an Orientalist painter whose involvement in celebrating Algerian culture results in powerfully authentic [...]

Lost Russian masterpiece by Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich for sale at Bonhams

LONDON.- Madonna Laboris by Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich (Russian, 1874-1947) will be sold in the Russian Sale at Bonhams New Bond Street on 5th June 2013 for an estimated £800,000 to £1.2m. Madonna Laboris by Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) represents a major re-discovery of a masterpiece of great significance for Russian art and Roerich scholars. Always known to exist, the whereabouts of this major work remained a mystery until now. Belonging to a series of works which followed with Madonna Oriflamma in 1932 and Madonna [...]

Previously unseen on the market: Still Life with Fruit by Ilya Mashkov presented at Christie’s

MOSCOW.- Christie’s presents Ilya Mashkov’s (1881-1944) masterpiece Still life with fruit, the finest example of Russian Neo-Primitivism to appear at auction in recent history. Painted in 1910, it was shown at the inaugural Jack of Diamonds exhibition in Moscow in 1911, one of the most significant exhibitions of Russian Avant-Garde. Exceptionally rare, Still life with fruit will lead the Russian Art sale at Christie’s London on 3 June 2013, making its debut on the international market. This extraordinary painting will be unveiled [...]

Fresh to the market works lead Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art Works on Paper and Day Sales

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will present its Impressionist & Modern Art Works on Paper Sale and Day Sale on May 9 in New York. The sales are comprised of paintings, drawings, sculptures and works on paper from the leading Impressionist and Modern masters such as Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele and many more. Fresh to the market works from distinguished collections are offered throughout the two sales including highlights from the collections of Andy Williams, [...]

Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Doha Sale achieves $15.2 million, the highest Contemporary art result in the region

DOHA.- Last night, Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Doha auction achieved the strong total of $15,199,750, solidly between the pre-sale expectations of $11.1/16.1 million, establishing the highest price for an auction of Contemporary Art in the Middle East region. The sale was 89.1% sold by lot. Records were set for nine artists, including a record for a living Arab artist. The top lot of tonight’s sale was Donald Judd’s Untitled (Bernstein 90-01), which sold – after an extended bidding battle among four people – for [...]

artnet auction presents over forty works in Street Life: A Sale of Graffiti and Street Art

NEW YORK, NY.- artnet Auctions is featuring Street Life: A Sale of Graffiti and Street Art, an auction of over 40 works by artists such as JA, CES, Banksy, COPE 2, Toxic, Trike 1, Jean-Michel Basquiat, CRASH, FAILE, Futura 2000, Keith Haring, Mr. Brainwash, Ryan McGinness, Ronnie Cutrone, Shepard Fairey, Judith Supine, KAWS, Saber, and SEEN. The works in the sale have estimates ranging from US$2,000 to 50,000. On the heels of the critically acclaimed show “Les BALLETS de FAILE” at [...]

Successful auction season start in Munich: Nesch takes it all

MUNICH.- With an overall result of € 3,4 million* in the April auctions, the season made a promising start, especially as this result tops that of last year’s spring auction by € 1 million. “Besides the high quality on offer, it is particularly the crisis-proof form of investment that is most convincing. Some 21 results above the € 20.000 mark in both auctions of ‘Art from the 20th/21st century of up to € 20.000′ clearly support this. I am already looking [...]

Julian Onderdonk, Porfirio Salinas, highlight Texas Art Event at Heritage Auctions

DALLAS, TX.- Paintings by early Texas Impressionists, such as Julian Onderdonk’s Coreopsis, Near San Antonio, Texas, 1919, Dawson Dawson-Watson’s Texas Cacti, and Porfirio Salinas’s Texas Summer — each expected to realize $20,000+ — join iconic works of the American West, like Fred Darge’s The Posse, Audley Dean Nichols’s Indian Oasis, Arizona, 1919, and Frank Reaugh’s Untitled (Herefords in a Landscape) in Heritage Auctions‘ May 11 Texas Art Signature® Auction in Dallas. “The Texas art market is as strong and diverse as the [...]

Christie’s Prints & Multiples Sale presents a survey of exceptional works by Modern and Contemporary masters

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced its spring Prints & Multiples sale in New York, taking place April 30-May 1. The sale encompasses a breadth of important examples from Modern masterpieces to works of German Expressionism, and includes a particularly strong representation of Post-War and Contemporary prints. With estimates that range from $1,000 to 500,000, the sale presents both new and experienced collectors with the opportunity to acquire a work that fits both their tastes and budget. Encompassing 406 lots, the sale is [...]

Asia’s leading international art fair brings Hong Kong artists to London in June

HONG KONG.- Fine Art Asia 2013 announced its new Chinese name ‘典亞藝博’, which expresses in a more precise and elegant way the essence of the fair, Fine Art and Asia. The fair will again create a high-quality platform for the international art world, with an 8,000-square-metre exhibition space showcasing an array of fine art from both East and West, presented by 100 world-renowned galleries. Fine Art Asia is the pioneer of the art fair business in Asia. With its curatorial expertise and [...]

The partial contents of a fine Palm Beach oceanfront estate to be auctioned by A. B. Levy’s

PALM BEACH, FL.- The partial contents of a prominent Palm Beach oceanfront estate, fine Asian works of art and Persian carpets from a private Delray Beach collection and many other quality consignments will be sold in a two-session auction slated for Sunday, May 5, by A. B. Levy’s, in their main gallery located at 211 Worth Avenue. In all, over 450 lots will come up for bid. Session one will begin promptly at 11 a.m. (EST) and feature lots 1-135. After a [...]