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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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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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Iran Modern Highlights Contemporary Art History in Tehran
Iran Modern highlights contemporary art history in Iran and how the oil boom of the 1970s led to a flourishing art market and new artistic traditions. It is also a reminder that there was a time when Iran had a symbiotic relationship with the West.
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‘The Concert ’at the National Gallery of Art Plays into Art History
Gerrit van Honthorst, Dutch, 1590 – 1656, The Concert, 1623, oil on canvas. unframed: 123 × 206 cm (48 7/16 × 81 1/8 in.). Image courtesy of the National Gallery Full Article »
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Middle Eastern Artists Set to Shine at Art Auction
Artworks by Middle Eastern artists will go on sale at Bonhams in London as part of the auction houses strategy of broadening its share of the market
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Christie’s Auction to Offer Manet’s ‘Le Printemps’ in New York
Edouard Manet (1832 -1883), Le Printemps, oil on canvas,29 1/8x 20 ¼ in. (74 x 51.5 cm.), painted in 1881 is on offer at Christie’s. Estimate: $25 -35 million. Image Full Article »
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Metropolitan Museum of Art President Set to Retire Next Year
Emily Kernan Rafferty, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first female president, is set to retire after leading the museum through a period of sustained growth.
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Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art Shows off Recent Acquisitions
Nativity by Tisi and work by famous artists like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, and Mary Cassatt are part of Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art recent Acquisitions
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Bonhams Appoint Honor Westmacott as Specialist at Its Berlin Office
Honor Westmacott: Bonhams New Picture Specialist for Modern, Contemporary & Impressionist Art in Germany. Image courtesy of Bonhams APPOINTMENT Honor Westmacott is the new Picture Specialist for Modern, Contemporary & Impressionist Full Article »
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Premier Galleries Around the World Prepare for Expo Chicago 2014
David Wojnarowicz, Untitled 1988-89, Gelatin Silver Print, 17 1/2 x 19 inches. Edition 5. Image courtesy of Cabinet. The cabinet is one of the premier galleries participating at this year’s Expo Full Article »
