Picasso Marie-Therese Portrait Sells For $155m To SAC Capital Boss
Steven Cohen the 56-year old founder of SAC Capital, has purchased the damaged painting “Le Reve” by Pablo Picasso for… Read More
27 March 2013
Steven Cohen the 56-year old founder of SAC Capital, has purchased the damaged painting “Le Reve” by Pablo Picasso for… Read More
27 March 2013
The Green Lady a painting considered a masterpiece of Kitsch by the Siberian/ South African artist Vladimir Tretchikoff
20 March 2013
The TEFAF Art Market Report 2013 which is considered to be one of the benchmarks for analysing the global art… Read More
14 March 2013
Kiša Lala Reports From Delhi on the rise of women collectors Arriving on New Year’s Eve in the aftermath of… Read More
12 March 2013
Christie’s quietly announced last week that it will be increasing its buyer’s premium by 5% on the first £75,000. This… Read More
24 February 2013
Peter Bainbridge director of the Ruislip auctioneers of the same name, has confirmed that the payment dispute centring around the… Read More
17 February 2013
Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Auction has achieved a total of £74,364,200/ $116,357,664/ €86,321,943, within pre-sale expectations (estimate: £61.2-84.5 million),… Read More
13 February 2013
We reported a year ago that the global art market had recovered from the financial crisis with both confidence and… Read More
13 February 2013
Amedeo Modigliani’s portrait of his lover Jeanne Hebuterne was the top selling lot at Christie’s evening Impressionist and Modern sale… Read More
7 February 2013
A portrait by Picasso’s of Marie-Therese Walter, has been sold at Sotheby’s London for £28.6m. Painted in 1932 the work… Read More
6 February 2013
Over half a billion in Art goes under the hammer in London this month with the launch of Christies, Sothebys… Read More
3 February 2013
Christie’s London, Winter Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale titled, ‘FROM FIGURATION TO ABSTRACTION’, set to fall under the hammer at… Read More
13 January 2013
Christie’s London are offering David Hockney’s ‘Great Pyramid at Giza with Broken Head from Thebes’ (1963) in their February Post-War… Read More
12 January 2013
Sotheby’s, the international auction house have reported their third most successful year ever for global auctions and a new record… Read More
10 January 2013
Tate Modern one of London’s most popular cultural attractions has seen a record 5.3 million visitors in 2012. This is… Read More
8 January 2013
International Art sales realised more than $64bn (£40bn; 49bn euros) last year with analysts predicting that this area of the… Read More
2 January 2013
2012 was a year of surprises in the London auction rooms. It wasn’t only Munch, Picasso and Warhol that made… Read More
27 December 2012
Kent County Council has cut £200,000 for sports development, £200,000 for Kent Music and £100,000 to Turner Contemporary art gallery… Read More
22 December 2012
The piano played by the character Sam in one of the film Casablanca’s iconic scenes has sold for $600,000 (£370,000)… Read More
15 December 2012
A previously unknown 1928 Mickey Mouse cartoon poster topped Heritage Auction’s Nov. 29-30 ‘Vintage Movie Poster Signature Auction’ by fetching… Read More
3 December 2012
Last week, the auction houses threw open their New York bidding rooms and captured the attention of the art world… Read More
23 November 2012
Phillips de Pury & Company auctioneers have revealed highlights from its Latin America Contemporary Art auction “Our 20 November 2012… Read More
16 November 2012
Jeff Koons clumsy sculpture titled Tulip, which sat outside New York’s Rockefeller Center, for the viewing of Christie’s latest Contemporary… Read More
16 November 2012
Sotheby’s in London have sold an original 1967 collage created by the Pop artists Sir Peter Blake and Jann Haworth… Read More
14 November 2012
“Apart from drugs, art is the biggest unregulated market in the world;” declared art critic Robert Hughes at the start… Read More
12 November 2012
Hollywood – A gingham dress with a pinafore worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 classic film, the Wizard of… Read More
11 November 2012
The RA Now auction and exhibition has successfully auctioned off the works of 40 Royal Academicians and a number of… Read More
10 October 2012
If the latest Andy Warhol that you’ve spotted on eBay looks too good to be true, it probably is. ‘There’s… Read More
19 September 2012
An historic painting showing the New Horse Guards from St James’s Park by the Venetian painter Canaletto is to be… Read More
3 August 2012
In the first half of 2012 leading auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s show conflicting views on the state of the… Read More
19 July 2012
As the Summer auction and fair season winds up and galleries mount their group shows, a mainstay of the art… Read More
1 July 2012
Art from the estate of Gunter Sachs, the German billionaire former husband of Brigitte Bardot, has been sold for £35.6m… Read More
24 May 2012