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Vlaminck, Monet lead Christie's sale
Bloomberg / May 4th, 2011
Christie’s Impressionist and modern art sale on Wed. night was boosted by a boldly-colored fauve landscape. Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958)'s Paysage de banlieue soared to $22.5 million, almost double the artist's previous auction record of $10.8 million. Hedge fund manager Steve Cohen was the ...
$170 million Sotheby's sale begins Spring series
Wall street Journal / May 4th, 2011
A Picasso-packed Sotheby's sale with 44 paintings, drawings and sculptures brought in $170 million for Impressionist and modern art on Tuesday evening in New York. Hefty pre-sale estimates and choosy bidders kept the sale subdued while it fell soundly within the overall pre-sale estimate ...
Spring Show attracts fresh crowd, steady sales
Art Newspaper / May 3rd, 2011
The inaugural Spring Show, organized by the Art and Antiques Dealers League of America, had a promising first-run at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. About 1,495 attendees, including a contingent of designers, celebrities, and collectors, enjoyed the opening night party on April 27. Over the ...
Detained artist Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads opening delayed in New York
Zodiac Heads / May 2nd, 2011
Update: The official unveiling has been rescheduled to Wednesday morning, May 4. Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, the first major public art sculpture by celebrated contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, was supposed to make its outdoor debut on May 2 in New York at the historic Pulitzer ...
Milton Avery & the End of Modernism
Nassau County Museum of Art / April 25th, 2011
Milton Avery & the End of Modernism, currently at the Nassau County Museum of Art on Long Island, looks at work by the artist who brought the sketch, with its spontaneity, movement and fleetingness, to the status of a finished painting. The exhibition features Avery’s intense ...
Klimt canvas looted by Nazis to be returned
Telegraph / April 24th, 2011
A Gustav Klimt painting looted by the Nazis from a Jewish family will be returned to its rightful heir in Canada. Currently owned by Salzburg’s modern art museum, the painting is estimated to be worth
Choice European antiques as investments
Wall Street Journal / April 24th, 2011
There are bargains to be had in most areas of antique European furniture," New York antiques dealer James Sansum says in the Wall Street Journal, "with English Georgian and German Biedermeier offering style and quality for the buck."
'Fairytale find' of medieval treasure in Austria
Huffington Post / April 23rd, 2011
An Austrian man who was digging in his garden found buried treasure – hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find.
Freshly-found Cropsey paintings headline Clarke auction
Antiques and the Arts / April 19th, 2011
A recent appraisal day held by Clarke Auction, of Larchmont, New York, yielded the exciting rediscovery of two lost paintings by 19th century Hudson River School artist Jasper F. Cropsey. Missing for 150 years was Cropsey's "Autumn in America," a work from the artist's first series of ...
Winterthur Museum acquires one of the earliest known American depictions of the Easter Bunny
Winterthur / April 18th, 2011
Delaware's Winterthur Museum recently acquired one of the earliest known American depictions of the Easter Bunny, which was sold at Pook & Pook auction house in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Together with the Christmas tree, the custom of the Easter rabbit and colored eggs was brought to ...
Delinquent, delayed payments stumble Chinese auction market
Newsweek / April 17th, 2011
China has catapulted to the world's largest art auction market, ahead of the U.S. and U.K., with an estimated $8.3 billion in sales, according to Artprice.com. But are mainland buyers slow to pay sellers, or paying at all for their bids? Newsweek takes a look at the rise of the Chinese mainland ...
Rediscovered Kensett painting soars at auction
Antiques and the Arts / April 14th, 2011
A rediscovered work by John Federick Kensett (American, 1816–1872), "Study for 'View of the Beach at Beverly, Massachusetts,'" fetched $310,500 (with 15% buyer's premium), ten times the low estimate of $30,000, at Eldred's Americana sale on Cape Cod. From a private estate, the highly-contested ...
Barberi table, Baryshnikov's painting lead Sotheby's Russian sale
Bloomberg / April 13th, 2011
A two-part auction of Russian paintings and works of art at Sotheby's in New York this week brought $16.1 million, slightly above its high presale estimate of $15.8 million. Buyers pursued the highest-quality lots, including a micro-mosaic table made by Italy’s Barberi workshop for the Russian ...
Museum directors push petition to free Ai Weiwei
Change.org / April 13th, 2011
On April 3, prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was seized by government agents when he tried to board a plane in Beijing. His charge is unspecified "economic crimes," according to the Chinese government. Change.org is circulating a petition started by 12 leading figures in the international art ...
Christie's to offer American masterworks from Westervelt Collection on May 18
ArtfixDaily / April 11th, 2011
Works by American masters such as Bierstadt, Burchfield, Hartley, Hassam and Wyeth, culled from one of the most important corporate collections of American paintings, will be offered this spring at Christie's in New York. A selection of 29 paintings from the private collection of The ...
Salander employee found guilty of scheming to defraud
Bloomberg / April 7th, 2011
The former director of bankrupt Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Leigh Morse, was convicted by a New York jury in a scheme that prosecutors said defrauded the estates of artists. She was found not guilty of a grand larceny count alleging the theft of $77,000 from actor Robert De Niro Jr. whose ...
Library's Hassam painting may be offered at auction
GoErie / April 7th, 2011
A task force has recommended that the Blasco Library in Erie County, Penn., sell its painting "Summer Afternoon, Isle of Shoals,'' by Frederic Childe Hassam, to fund an endowment for library collections. Christie's has provided an estimate of $2.5 to $3.5 million for the work which may go to ...
Islamic art reaches new auction record
Los Angeles Times / April 6th, 2011
Sotheby's in London sold a 16th century illustrated portfolio from the "Shahnameh" ("Book of Kings") of Shah Tahmasp of Persia, for 7.4 million pounds ($12 million) on Wednesday, a new auction record for an Islamic work of art. The leaf comes from the Persian national epic depicting Faridun ...
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei disappears
Christian Science Monitor / April 5th, 2011
Chinese authorities have not disclosed the location of artist and social activist Ai Weiwei since detaining him on Sunday at Beijing's airport. The Communist government in China has been stepping up arrests of political dissenters following uprisings in the Middle East. The ...
Growing Gagosian Gallery
Wall Street Journal / April 4th, 2011
Estimated to move a staggering $1 billion worth of modern and contemporary art annually at his 11 global galleries, dealer Larry Gagosian represents 77 of the world's top artists and estates, including Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Cy Twombly, Richard Serra, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Ed ...