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Auction Record: Christie’s Begins 2015 Celebrating 2014
Andy Warhol’s Triple Elvis [Ferus Type] on auction during Christie’s November Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, New YorkIt helped with the auction record. Image courtesy of Christie’s ART AUCTION Full Article »
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Abraham Lincoln’s Hair, Autographs and Rare Letters Go on Sale
Abraham Lincoln: “Take the Oath” Autographed Note Signed. Estimated at Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions ART AUCTION Revealing Abraham Lincoln Civil War Letter, hair, and other important documents go on Full Article »
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Female Artists Prepare to Shine as Art Auction Season Begins
The ascent of female artists in the 2014 art auction season raises hope for 2015. Here are some of the top female artists from last year’s auction season
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Bonhams Smashes Art Auction Records for Ben Enwonwu in London
Ben Enwonwu, The Durbar of Eid ul-Fitr, Kano, Nigeria, broke the artist’s previous best by selling for £193,250. Image courtesy of Bonhams ART AUCTION: Ben Enwonwu, one of Africa’s leading artists, Full Article »
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Auction Result Gives Sotheby’s Cause to Celebrate Art Sales
Sotheby’s 2014 art auction result and art sales give the auction house reason to celebrate and prepare for the 2015 auction season
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Sotheby’s Celebrates Art Auction Season With Best and Brightest
Sotheby’s auctioneers at work auctioning Jasper Johns’s 1983 Flag in the 2014 auction season . It set a new record for the artist when it sold for $36 million. Image courtesy Full Article »
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Caravaggio’s Painting Leads Christie’s Auction of Old Masters Art
Theodoor Rombouts (Antwerp 1597-1637), A Merry Company, oil on canvas 94 x 671⁄8 in. Estimate: $2,000,000-3,000,000. Old Masters. Image courtesy Christie’s ART AUCTION Old Masters Week at Christie’s in New York sets the Full Article »
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Netherlands Rijksmuseum Buys Adrien de Vries Sculpture
Adrien de Vries, Bacchic Figure Supporting the Globe. Sold for $27.9 million, the sculpture will be on display at the Netherlands Rijksmuseum. Image courtesy of Christie’s ART AUCTION Christie’s Sells Bacchic Figure Full Article »
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Latin American Art and Artists Shine at Christie’s Art Auction
Christie’s Latin American Art Evening Sale achieves $20.2 million in an art sale where several new auction prices were set for Latin American Artists
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Chinese Billionaire Liu Yiqian Buys $45 Million Thangka for Museum
Detail of the Imperial Embroidered Silk Thangka Yongle Six-Character Presentation Mark and of the period(1402–1424). Image courtesy of Christie’s Images Ltd ART AUCTION BY KAZAD Chinese Billionaire Liu Yiqian breaks Full Article »
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Rare Coins From Newman Collection Brings Over $10.4 Million at Auction
1794 -silver dollar, AU50 NGC Ex Col E.H.R. Green. Sold for $470,000. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions ART AUCTION Newman Collection of rare coins set off a bidding war at Heritage Auctions Full Article »
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Norman Rockwell’s Painting Tops Christie’s American Art Auction
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), Hills and Mesa to the West, oil on canvas, painted in 1945. Sold for $3,749,000 as part of Christie’s American Art Sale. Image courtesy of Christie’s ART Full Article »
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Picasso’s Ceramics Auction Exceeds $1 Million at Christie’s
Top Lot: Lot 12 | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Service scènes de corrida (set of 8 plates) (A. R. 416 – 423), set of 8 partially glazed ceramic plates, conceived on Full Article »
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War Posters for Recruitment Memorialized at Bonhams Art Sale
First World War recruitment posters: ‘Come and Do Your Bit’, Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Sold for £350 ($ 560) inc.premium. Image courtesy of Bonhams ART AUCTION: Recruitment posters on sale at Bonhams Full Article »
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Art Sale: Christie’s Expands Global Demand for Fall
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), L’Anse des Pilotes et le brise-lames est, Le Havre 1903, oil on canvas 18 ¼ x 21 ¾ in. is one of the works in Christie’s art Full Article »
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Intimate Love Paintings by Joan Mitchell Unveiled at Auction
Two Intimate Love Paintings by Joan Mitchell in Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art auction reveal her cherished friendship with Patricia Molloy
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Ned Kelly Riddled with Bullets for Sale at Bonhams Australia
Sidney Nolan (1917-1992), Shot (Kelly), c.1991. Estimate: AU$ 60,000 – 80,000 (US$ 52,000 – 70,000) ART AUCTION AUSTRALIA — On Monday, 119 rare artworks by Sir Sidney Nolan, arguably Australia’s Full Article »
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Asian Art Make Record Art Prices at Sotheby’s Hong Kong
Liu Xiaodong (b. 1963), Disobeying the Rules 1996, oil on canvas, 180 x 230 cm. One of the top Asian Art pieces at the auction. It sold for HK$66.2 million Full Article »
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Sophie Kinsella Gets Agatha Christie’s Three-Stone Diamond Ring
Henry Wickham buys Agatha Christie’s mother’s three-stone diamond ring for $35,452 at Bonhams auction as a gift for his wife, Sophie Kinsella
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Famous Scottish Artists Thrill Art Collectors in Edinburgh
Famous Scottish artists and top colorists win the hearts of art collectors in Edinburgh during Bonhams art auction that included works by splendid Scottish landscape artists.
