Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), the last portrait Gustav Klimt created before his untimely death, has sold in London for £85.3 million ($108.4 million) at Sotheby’s
28 June 2023
They’ve smashed up petrol pumps and glued themselves to museum masterpieces; now, the latest audacious stunt saw mashed potatoes thrown at a Monet by climate activists.
24 October 2022
Results from the major Modern and Contemporary art sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams’ NY has conveyed a message of optimism to the COVID hit art market.
13 May 2021
An outstanding painting by Claude Monet ‘Le Palais Ducal’ 1908 is at risk of going abroad unless a UK buyer can be found . The picture valued at more than £28 million is one of a number of the artist’s works depicting Venice.
10 August 2019
It wasn’t the billion dollar sale that Christie’s optimistically predicted but it was an evening of fierce bidding and record prices for both Matisse and the stalwart of Impressionism Monet.
9 May 2018
Highlights from what many have dubbed the sale to watch in 2018, the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller has been revealed by Christie’s.
22 November 2017
Tate Britain brings together over 100 important works by Impressionist masters such as Monet, Tissot, Pissarro, and others for a blockbuster exhibition this Autumn.
18 July 2017
Despite a week of political unease as America comes to terms with the reality of Donald Trump as President-elect, the market showed some strong sales. Christie’s New York held two major sales this week Post-war and contemporary and Impressionist and Modern Art.
21 November 2016
Paul Carey-Kent travels to Amsterdam to report ‘DAUBIGNY, MONET, VAN GOGH AND MORE: 30 HOURS IN AMSTERDAM’
26 October 2016
Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 23 June will present a further selection of 52 highly covetable works to inspire collectors… Read More
3 June 2015
Sotheby’s Auctioneers has set a new record for the highest total for a London auction. Helena Newman, Sotheby’s Co-Head, Impressionist… Read More
3 February 2015
Sotheby’s London Impressionist and Modern Art Sale will feature “Les Peupliers à Giverny,’’ one of Monet’s depictions of poplar trees… Read More
14 January 2015
The National Gallery London presents the UK’s first major exhibition devoted to ‘the man who invented Impressionism’, Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922)…. Read More
12 December 2014
While visiting the National Gallery of Ireland in 2012, 49-year-old Andrew Shannon attacked and punched a hole through a painting… Read More
8 December 2014
Sotheby’s evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in London has achieved a total of £121,957,000 / $207,875,707 / €152,555,889… Read More
24 June 2014
Cornelius Gurlitt the son of a notorious Nazi art dealer whose secret collection included many Third Reich looted pieces, has died in Germany age 81.
6 May 2014
Cornelius Gurlitt, the elderly son of a Nazi era art dealer has come to a co-operative agreement with German authorities to resolve
8 April 2014
The former secretary of Imelda Marcos’s was indicted in a New York City court room yesterday accused of ‘conspiring to… Read More
21 November 2012
One of France’s wealthiest families accuses another of withholding info on Monet painting stolen by Nazi’s
20 March 2012
