ART IN MIND: Artists Raising Money For Mental Health Services – Clare Henry
Organiser June Carey’s initial idea was to ask 12 or 15 friends to paint vases for sale to raise money for mental health
5 November 2019
Fifty International Artists Auction Exclusive Work For Torture Survivors
A star-studded charity art auction featuring exclusive works by Quentin Blake, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Michael Craig-Martin, Howard Hodgkin, Patrick Hughes, Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker, Bridget Riley, and others is to take place from 7 November until 21st November
20 June 2019
Controversial Caravaggio Goes Under The Hammer In Toulouse
A long lost painting attributed by a French provincial auction house to Caravaggio, which languished in a chateau attic in France, for over 100 years goes under the hammer at La Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, on June 27. The much-hyped work just back from a world tour could achieve up to the presale estimate […]
28 March 2019
Marc Quinn Honoured At MTV RE: Define HIV Charity Auction
The eighth Annual MTV RE: DEFINE 2019 Art Auction & Gala is honouring the YBA Artist Marc Quinn who has donated two Artworks produced exclusively for the event.
14 March 2019
George Michael Art Collection Auction Raises £9.4m For Philanthropic Work
The highly anticipated auction of British singer and songwriter George Michael’s art collection which captured the spirit of the 1980s and 1990s, has realised £9,264,000 / $12,302,590 / €10,848,145. Proceeds from the sale will be used to continue George Michael’s philanthropic work.
27 June 2018
New Record For Lucian Freud Painting At Sotheby’s London
A painting by the British Artist Lucian Freud from his ‘last great nudes’ series, Portrait on a White Cover has sold at Sotheby’s London for £a record 22.5million / $29.8 million.
9 December 2017
Help Refugees: Auction Unites A-List Artists To Help Raise Funds
The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is one of 27 artists who have given their support to a high profile charity auction in aid of award-winning NGO, Help Refugees.
29 July 2017
Donald Trump Drawing Sells For £22,000 At Auction In LA
Is Donald Trump a better artist than George W Bush? This is a question on many peoples lips this morning! Now, an original drawing by the US President Donald Trump depicting the Manhattan skyline, with Trump Tower smack in the middle has gone under the hammer in Los Angeles achieving $29,184 (£22,000).
21 November 2016
Record £1.33m For Tintin Explorers On The Moon Drawing By Herge
A black and white Tintin drawing has broken all records by selling for €1.55m (£1.33m; $1.64m). The original pen and ink from the book Explorers on the Moon was created by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Herge. It had been estimated to fetch between €700,000-900,000 before the sale.
Landseer’s Monarch of the Glen Auctioned By Mean Spirited Drinks Brand Diageo
The Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer, one of Scotland’s best-loved paintings has been consigned to Christie’s Auctioneers, in a move that could see it go abroad.
London Design Museum Auction Raises Over £1m For New Kensington Building
Phillips has successfully hosted a Design Auction to benefit the new Design Museum in Kensington London. The sale has raised over £1.1 million towards the construction costs of its new building. The museum, which moves to the former Commonwealth Institute on Kensington High Street and opens to the public on 24 November, received works donated to the auction from leading design […]
7 May 2016
Marcel Duchamp National Treasure Goes Under The Hammer In Paris
The Impressionist and Modern art sale at Artcurial in Paris is offering the seminal oil painting on panel, Nu sur nu by Marcel Duchamp. The painting carries an estimate of £400,000-£550,000 (500 000 – 700 000 € / $555 000 – 775 000 ). The work, offered by N.G.O. Médecins sans frontières in order to finance humanitarian aid, was previously […]
5 September 2015
A. Alfred Taubman’s $500m Art Collection To Be Sold At Sotheby’s
The disgraced Collector and former owner of Sotheby’s, A. Alfred Taubman’s art collection will be sold in a series of dedicated auctions beginning this autumn in New York*. The outstanding collection, which comprises more than 500 works stretching from antiquity to contemporary art, is valued in excess of $500 million, making it the most valuable private collection ever offered at […]
Banksy Street Art Removed From Bethlehem Up For Auction
Murals believed to have been created by the Bristol street artist Banksy on walls in Detroit, and in Bethlehem are to be put up for auction in September. The artist’s work, ‘Donkey Documents’, depicts a donkey having its papers checked by a soldier and was left on a barrier dividing the West Bank from Israel […]
28 January 2015
Ai Weiwei’s Zodiac Heads Under The Hammer At Phillips
Phillips London’s Contemporary Art Evening sale on February 12 will host Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (2010). The group of gold-plated bronze sculptures, number seven of an edition of eight, has a presale estimate of £2 million to £3 million. The Chinese artist’s sculptures are based on the zodiac clock-fountain that once graced the […]
18 January 2015
Jack Vettriano Scotland’s Kitschiest Painter: £1.2m Collection Goes Under The Hammer
Paintings by the popular commercial artist Jack Vettriano are estimated to reach £1.2m when they are sold at auction, in Edinburgh, in March. Bonham’s are selling the lots consisting of 12 paintings which have never been offered before. The works, belong to an anonymous collector and include some of Vettriano best loved subjects. Chris Brickley from […]
11 January 2015
Christie’s Unveils Stellar Selection For London’s The Art of The Surreal Auction
Christie’s stellar selection of 36 lots in the much anticipated annual London evening sale of The Art of The Surreal on 4 February 2015. The auction comprises works from many important collections, led by Joan Miró’s masterful L’oiseau au plumage déployé vole vers l’arbre argenté, 1953, from a Distinguished European Collection (estimate: £7-9 million, illustrated […]
Lauren Bacall’s Art Collection For International Tour
The impressive art collection assembled by acclaimed actress of stage and screen, Lauren Bacall, who died in August 2014, is going on international tour prior to auction at Bonhams, New York on 31 March. The 700-piece art collection of the actress who died at the age of 89, will go up for auction at Bonhams […]
18 December 2014
Winston Churchill Painting Sells For Record £1.7 Million
It would seem that there is a new fashion for the paintings of World War II political ‘hobbyists’. First we had a century old painting by Adolf Hitler that was auctioned off at the Weidler auction house in Nuremberg last month. The work went under the hammer for €130,000, or £102,000; and now it is […]
Georgia O’Keeffe $44.4m Painting Sets New Record Price For A Female Artist At Sotheby’s
The $15 million or £9.5 million estimate for Georgia O’Keeffe’s work was shattered after a rather intense bidding war between two rivals. ‘Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1’, a 1932 painting of a simple white flower, was finally bought after the flurry by an unnamed buyer with a telephone bid at Sotheby’s auction house. The floral […]
BBC Incompetence As Television Centre Memorabilia Goes For A Song
The BBC have been criticised for not properly promoting a series of auctions of memorabilia, from Television Centre, the last of which raised only £100,000
Lost Masterpiece Discovered In French Attic At Christie’s Auction
Two works by the artist John Duncan Fergusson were recently rediscovered in France by a brother and sister while they were sorting through the contents of a family attic of their home in Giverny. The duo’s grandparents lived in the area at the turn of the 20th century, at the same time as it was […]
Lauren Bacall’s Art Collection For Bonhams Auction
The 700-piece art collection of actress Lauren Bacall, who died earlier this year at the age of 89, will go up for auction at Bonhams next year; reports Reuters. The actress’s holdings of paintings, sculpture, jewelry – including tribal and twentieth century art – are estimated to be worth nearly £2 million, According to the […]
Christie’s To Auction Collection Of Late Actor Maximilian Schell
The late Maximilian Schell was a renowned Austrian and Swiss film and stage actor, who also wrote, directed and produced a proportion of his own films. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film ‘Judgement at Nuremberg’. Christie’s has now announced that they will be auctioning 45 works from the […]
Damien Hirst To Auction Cabinet Piece For Victim Education Programs
Deyrolle auction house in Paris is to partner with the Turner Prize winning artist Damien Hirst and online auction Paddle8 to present Damien Hirst with Deyrolle: The Cabinet of Curiosities Signification (Hope, Immortality and Death in Paris, Now and Then). Profits will be donated to Victim, a charity founded by Damien Hirst, and allocated to […]
David Hockney Faxed Art For Charity Auction
Great British artist David Hockney’s work ‘DH at the Beach’ – which was faxed by the artist from California to a Bradford childhood friend in the 1980s – is to be auctioned to raise funds for a charity in York, UK. The work was sent by Hockney from his Malibu beach home to Michael Powell […]
Sotheby’s To Auction Most Iconic Works By Georgia O’Keeffe
Sotheby’s in New York will offer one of the most iconic works by artist Georgia O’Keeffe ever to appear at auction. ‘Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1’ comes to auction as the centerpiece of its American Art sale in 20 November. One of Three Works by the artist on Offer from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Sold […]
Golden Opportunity at Christie’s For Bond Fans
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Goldfinger, EON Productions has commissioned a one-off gold-plated replica of James Bond’s iconic Aston Martin which Christie’s will offer in a special online auction to benefit the NSPCC. The third scale replica of the DB5 has been signed by Bond Production Designer Sir Ken Adam, who designed the modifications to the […]
Edmund de Waal Donates Art For Prisoners Abroad Charity Auction
Leading artist Edmund de Waal has donated a major work of art to an auction for the charity Prisoners Abroad. The work titled ‘watermark, 2012’ consists of eight thrown porcelain vessels in white, cream and celadon glazes, in a black lacquer lead-lined box and will be be launched and subsequently auctioned on eBay on 28th […]
15 May 2014
Christie’s Sets $975m Benchmark For Post War and Contemporary Art Sales
Christie’s has set a new benchmark for the Post-War and Contemporary art market, raising a record total of $975 million and setting 35 new price achievements during its successful sale week. “The current commentary on the art market currently avoids what is truly driving it. It is the work of art itself,” said Steven […]