Contemporary African art continues to make an enormous impact in the global art market as works by South African artists achieve record auction prices.
Kazuo Shiraga Untitled, oil on canvas, painted in 1965. Sold for $269,152. Image courtesy of Christie’s auction house ART AUCTION At the auction of Eastern and Western contemporary art in Full Article »
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 »
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
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 »
Sotheby’s 2014 art auction result and art sales give the auction house reason to celebrate and prepare for the 2015 auction season
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 »
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 »
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 »
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
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 »
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 »
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), Hills and Mesa to the West, oil on canvas, painted in 1945. Sold for $3,749,000 as part of Christie’s American Art Sale. Image courtesy of Christie’s ART Full Article »
Top Lot: Lot 12 | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Service scènes de corrida (set of 8 plates) (A. R. 416 – 423), set of 8 partially glazed ceramic plates, conceived on Full Article »
First World War recruitment posters: ‘Come and Do Your Bit’, Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Sold for £350 ($ 560) inc.premium. Image courtesy of Bonhams ART AUCTION: Recruitment posters on sale at Bonhams Full Article »
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
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.
Treasure of Harageh 5 banded Travertine objects are part of the Egyptian treasures sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image: Bonhams ART NEWS ‘Treasure of Harageh’, a collection of 4,000-year-old Full Article »
A Superb and Very Rare Cloisonné Enamel Deep Bowl, Ming Dynasty, 15th-Early 16th century. Price Realized: $2,629,000. Image courtesy of Christie’s Images Ltd ART AUCTION PRICES BY KAZAD NEW YORK, NY., Full Article »
Manjit Bawa (1941-2008), Untitled (Durga), oil on canvas, painted in 2004 is one of the major highlights of the Asian art sale. Auction Price Realized: $425,000. Image courtesy of Christie’s Full Article »