Two examples of Francis Bacon female nudes, a rare entity from the artist, will be on offer, priced from $25 million to $35 million, Phillips is staking its claim as a serious competitor to established auction houses at New York’s contemporary art sales next...
A. Alfred Taubman, the self-made billionaire/developer of the modern shopping centre, who was jailed for commission fixing and collusion with Christie's, when he was Chairman of Sotheby's Auctioneers, has died in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, age 91. Taubman was a...
Cedric Christie's Massive Retrospective - Up To Now will be presented at the Sidney Cooper Gallery. It is actually a 'mini'-retrospective of serial works by this well respected British sculptor. The exhibition brings together Christie's...
Works from two pioneering art world figures: Ileana Sonnabend, one of the most innovative, daring, and stimulating gallerists of 20th-Century art, and her daughter Nina Castelli Sundell, the visionary curator and scholar who worked to introduce...
Religious or not, we are all familiar with the spirit of giving, new life and general goodwill associated with decorating and eating eggs at Easter. The practice in any case dates back to ancient times, Christianity only taking it up with later examples found from...
An exhibition focusing on the actress, singer and style icon, Marilyn Monroe, representing the emancipation of women in the 1950s is being mounted at Liechtenstein's National Museum, Vaduz. The show highlights the strength behind the phenomenon who, even 53...
A drawing by Vincent Van Gogh is set to be unveiled at TEFAF Maastricht, after its definitive authentication. The landscape is going on show for the first time for over 100 years, the Guardian reports. The artwork has been valued at $10 million, or £6.6 million....
Gustav Klimt's murals, The Beethoven Frieze should not be returned to the family of the original Jewish owners, an Austrian panel has decided. The paintings were looted by the Nazis from the family of the Jewish industrialist August Lederer. They were returned after...
In January of this year the German state-owned bank Portigon AG of North Rhine-Westphalia, the rebranded successor of the WestLB which folded in 2012 during the financial crisis, decided to deaccession its entire art collection. The bank holds approximately 400-pieces...