Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin, Sir Anthony Caro, Yinko Shonibare, Gillian Wearing, Jonathan Yeo, Bob & Roberta Smith, Nathan Coley and Nika Neelova highlight landmark exhibition in aid of Crisis next Spring.The Crisis Commission has brought together a number...
Sotheby’s auctions for Modern and Post-War British Art make £8m, selling work by Lowry and the fictional creation Nat Tate Sotheby's held its first ever evening auction of Modern and Post-War British Art this week, and by all accounts this inaugural event...
Painting of Piccadilly Circus by L.S. Lowry sells for £5.6 million but falls short of breaking record set by ‘The Football Match’L.S Lowry's much talked-about 1960 painting of Piccadilly Circus sold last night at Christie's for £5.6 million;...
Confusion as last week’s total sales of Asian Art hit impressive £57.4 million, despite fact that 44% of lots remained unsoldAs we reported earlier this month, London has over the past few weeks been host to one of the world's major Asian art events: Asian...
£2.7m Record price for Andreas Gursky's photoA photograph of the Rhine river by German artist Andreas Gursky created in 1999 has sold at auction for a record $4.3 million at Christie's New York. This now becomes the most expensive photograph in the world...
$247.6m sale total at Christie’s makes up for last week’s auction in which even work by Degas failed to find a buyerWe speculated yesterday that the lukewarm contemporary sale at Phillips De Pury was perhaps attributable to buyers guarding their...
Buyers lack enthusiasm at first post-war and contemporary sale of the season, uncharacteristically held by Phillips De PuryPhillips De Pury hosted the first post-war and contemporary sale of the season last night, and, whilst results were by no means as...
London’s Asian Art Fair sees Wealthy Chinese collectors dominating sales This year's Asian Art in London began last week, an event which has been showcasing art from China, India, Japan and Korea for over ten years through a series of specialised...
Sotheby's have enjoyed considerably more success at their first "Impressionist and Modern Art" sale of the autumn season than their rivals Christie's, who suffered mixed results on November 1st. In contrast to the Christie's sale, where excessive estimates for the...