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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Friday, October 09, 2009
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 | Market Upswing: Sotheby's reports third highest sales in Hong Kong
Reuters - October 8th, 2009 17:11
HONG KONG - Sotheby's made a higher-than-expected $168 million or so in total sales for its autumn Asian auctions in Hong Kong. The sales tally for the array of Chinese antiques and paintings, Asian contemporary art, wine, jewelry and watches was 88 percent higher than its spring sales tally, partly due to a 50% increase in lots offered. A rare, Qing dynasty "zitan" emperor's dragon throne sold to a Chinese buyer for $11.07 million and a Qianlong moonflask fetched $5.1 ...Read more | |
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 | Retrospective at Guggenheim: Kandinsky's Futurity
New York Observer - October 8th, 2009 14:52
NEW YORK - The imperative of visionary logic goes like this: if the worldliness of the present world be false, then divest yourself of it, and precipitate a future that rings true. Russian-born Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) remains one of a few artists whose art is definitive in this sense, and so it is a major event when, as now, we are invited to view a retrospective meant to celebrate his singular art at the Guggenheim...Read more | |
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 | Gilt-y Lot: Christie's offers $6.4 million "Cucci Cabinet"
Reuters - October 8th, 2009 13:40
LONDON - Christie's will offer for auction one of only three cabinets by Domenico Cucci known to survive, and expects the rare work to fetch around four million pounds ($6.4 million). The ornate Louis XIV cabinet, dated 1665 to 1675, is being sold by the March family, described by the auctioneer as one of the most powerful banking dynasties of 20th century Spain. The other two Cucci cabinets are owned by the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle. The piece for sale in London on Dec. 10 ...Read more | |
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 | Reclaiming Relics: Egypt demands artifacts’ return, cuts ties with Louvre
New York Times Art - October 8th, 2009 06:55
The nation’s antiquities department says reliefs in the possession of the French museum were stolen in the 1980s from an ancient Egyptian tomb. Egypt also seeks the return of the 3,300- year-old bust of Nefertiti, the wife of the famed monotheistic pharaoh Akhenaten, which has been recently moved to Berlin's Neue Museum, and the Rosetta Stone, a basalt slab with an inscription that was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, now in the British Museum. Read more | |
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