President Vladimir Putin has had the honour of presenting a £9m Fabergé egg to the Hermitage Museum in celebration of their 250th birthday. The Russian President attended a party on Monday with the gift that originally belonged to Catherine the...
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£4.1 Million Landscape Is World’s Most Expensive Photo Upsets Critics
The Australian landscape photographer Peter Lik's photographic work, 'Phantom' is now the most expensive photo in history at an impressive $6.5 million, or £4.1 million. The work is a black-and-white shot of Arizona's Antelope Canyon, with a piercing...
£28 Million Tapestry Breaks The World Record For Chinese Art
A Tibetan ‘thangka' tapestry went under the hammer at Christie's Hong Kong on Wednesday for HK$348.4 million, or £28 million, setting a new world record for a Chinese artwork sold at international auction, SCMP reported. The Shanghai-based billionaire Liu...
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...
Two Sigmar Polke Works Saved From Liquidation
The state bank of Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia has decided against selling two Sigmar Polke works of art following a countrywide controversy over the deaccessioning of two Andy Warhol works of art - reported by Monopol.The German casino conglomerate Westspiel,...
Manet Painting Breaks Artist’s Record With £40 Million Sale
A work by Edouard Manet has set a new auction record for the French impressionist. 'Spring', a portrait of a French actress, sold at Christie's in New York for £40.6 million, a sum that almost doubled the previous record of £20.7 million for a work by...
Chinese Film Mogul Purchases Van Gogh’s Masterpiece For £39m
Wang Zhongjun, the chairman of Huayi Brothers film studio in China has purchased Van Gogh's painting "Still Life, Vase with Daisies and Poppies", at Sotheby's New York, Tuesday for £39m $61.8m. Zhongjun is one of China's wealthiest men. A spokesperson for the...
Alberto Giacometti $101m Chariot Sculpture Leads Sotheby’s Modern Sale
Sotheby's Autumn Impressionist and Modern sale in New York has realised $422 million, against presale expectations of $316.5–424.9 million. This has been a record breaker for the auction room setting the highest-ever auction total in Sotheby's...
Kainer Heirs Sue UBS Over Nazi-Looted Degas
According to the New York Times; the descendants of Jewish collectors Ludwig and Margret Kainer, whose fortune, and art collection was sized by the Nazis during World War II, have begun legal proceedings against executives at the Swiss bank UBS , claiming that they...