Over half a billion in Art goes under the hammer in London this month with the launch of Christies, Sothebys and Phillips February Impressionist/Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sales. Christies features exceptional works by artists such as Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo...
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Damien Hirst Designs A Mundane Statuette For A Sanitised Award
Last week the Brit awards unveiled its coveted design for this years prize. It was conceived by none other than the king of bland, Damien Hirst. This marks the third year in a row that a well known British artist has put their own individual stamp on the statuette....
David Hockney’s Landmark Egyptian Painting Auctioned In London
Christie’s London are offering David Hockney's 'Great Pyramid at Giza with Broken Head from Thebes' (1963) in their February Post-War & Contemporary Art sale. This is an early landmark painting by the British artist known for his painterly Pop realism. The...
Henry Moore Auction Labour Councillors Demand Mayor Halts Auction
Following an outcry from the community at Bermondsey Mayor Rahman’s decision to sell the much loved Old Flo sculpture Labour councillors have tabled a motion at next week’s Council meeting demanding he put the sale on hold whilst the offers of an...
Jeff Koons Deflated Tulip Balloon Sculpture Sells For £21 Million
Jeff Koons clumsy sculpture titled Tulip, which sat outside New York's Rockefeller Center, for the viewing of Christie's latest Contemporary art sale has sold for an artist record of $33.7m (£21.2m). Created between 1995-2004, the tinted stainless steel...
Kate Middleton Painting To Be Exhibited At National Portrait Gallery
The Duchess of Cambridge will have a newly commissioned official portrait hanging in the National Portrait Gallery sometime in 2013, a source has revealed. Since becoming patron to the National Portrait Gallery, in central London rumours and several names...
Rothko Tate Modern Vandalism Man In Court
A man has appeared in Camberwell Green magistrates court charged with wilfully damaging a Mark Rothko painting at London's Tate Modern gallery. The painting part of a group of wall murals commissioned by Seagrams were donated to Tate in 1969 the year of the artist's...
Tower Hamlets Henry Moore Sold To Pay Front-line Services
Tower Hamlets Council are to sell off an important Henry Moore sculpture in order to pay for front-line services. it was decided that it could no longer keep the sculpture safe from scrap metal thieves, on council property.Draped Seated Woman was valued at at least...
Rothko Masterpiece Vandalised With Marker Pen At Tate Modern
A masterpiece by the Abstract Expressionist artist Mark Rothko, owned by Tate Modern has been vandalised with a permanent black marker pen. A Tate spokeswoman confirmed. That part of the Seagram murals donated to the nation in 1969 by the artist, was daubed with...