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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, November 19, 2009
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 | Stunning ruby suite, colored diamonds demand record prices
Bloomberg - November 19th, 2009 00:13
Sotheby’s set a record for a matching group of ruby jewelry with its sale of 19th-century ruby and diamond earrings and a necklace once owned by Mary, the Duchess of Roxburghe. The two lots were sold in Geneva yesterday for a combined price of 5.8 million Swiss francs ($5.77 million), five times the high estimate, to two Asian buyers. A record €2.05 million ($3.08 million) was paid for a rare, large 2.52 carat green diamond. Intense blue diamonds also reached new price ...Read more | |
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 | Big Botero nude leads $14.7 million Latin American art sale
Reuters - November 18th, 2009 23:13
A one-ton nude sculpture by Colombian Fernando Botero sold for $1.14 million in a robust sale of Latin American art at Christie's in New York Tuesday night. Nearly 12-feet long, Botero's 'Smoking Woman' shows a jaunty woman sprawled on a sheet, daintily holding a cigarette. The artist's Madonna-like watercolor "Mother and Child" fetched $614,500, a world auction record for his work on paper. In all, Christie's raked in $14.7 million, its ...Read more | |
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 | Clock runs out on father of Sydney's antique trade
Brisbane Times - November 19th, 2009 00:38
He would be remembered, colleagues said, as the father of the Sydney antique world. W.F. "Bill" Bradshaw, died yesterday at age 87. Just five months ago he sold his last piece, a fine English lacquer longcase clock. The former prime minister described him as ''simply the most knowledgeable antique dealer Australia has known.'' He lived his life with humor and ''on a diet of cheese, pickled onions and wedding cake.''Read more | |
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 | Truth-telling Lincoln letter up for sale
Guardian - November 18th, 2009 19:37
George Patten, aged eight, boasted at school about having met Abraham Lincoln. The boy's friends thought he had made the story up, and bullied him. On 19 March 1861, Lincoln took the trouble to write to the boy's class: "To whom it may concern: I did see and talk with George Evans Patten, last May, at Springfield, Illinois. Respectfully, A. Lincoln." The letter has been put up for sale by Philadelphia's Raab Collection at $60,000. Last year another letter written by ...Read more | |
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