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Bluebird, Butler... Jack Vettriano seeks a grand reunion
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
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Vettriano expects his most famous painting The Singing Butler to be part of a milestone exhibition he is planning to cover 20 years of his work, he said yesterday. Sotheby's auctioneers are to help him track down his best-known paintings, seeking loans...
Tags: Jack Vettriano, Scotland, London, National Galleries, singing butler, Sotheby, Royal Scottish Academy, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Entertainment Culture
Sotheby's sells rare green diamond to anonymous buyer for €2 million
Geneva :: Switzerland | 8 days ago
Credibility It was the highest price ever paid for a vivid green diamond. A ruby and diamond necklace and earrings made for the Duchess of Roxburghe in 1884 sold for €3.86 million, five times its estimated price, at the auction in Geneva.
Tags: green diamond, Sotheby, Switzerland, Geneva, Auction, Diamond, Gemstones, Sotheby's
Stylized nudes expected to top Latin American art sales
Santiago :: Chile | 11 days ago
Credibility A bronze of a voluptuous nude holding a cigarette and a volcanic landscape strewn with lifeless limbs top this week's Latin American art auctions. The New York sales at Christie's and Sotheby's follow strong auctions this month for Modern and Impressionist...
Tags: Sotheby, Latin American, Christie, Chile, Santiago, Auction, Christie's, Arshile Gorky, Business Finance, Auctioneering, Manhattan, Sotheby's
Dollars, cents and sensibility
New York City :: NY :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility Christie’s went first , selling 39 of 46 lots for a total of $74.1m on November 10th. It was less than a quarter of their $325m total exactly two years ago, but still a respectable outcome given the difficulty of obtaining consignments. No one wants to...
Tags: Christie, Mr Doig, Peter Doig, Sotheby, highest price, New York City, Andy Warhol, Christie's, Damien Hirst, Jose Mugrabi, Manhattan, Sotheby's, Auction
Warhol artwork sells for $43.8m
New York :: NY :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility The 1962 silk screen print, which shows 200 life-sized images of dollar bills, had a pre-sale estimate of $8m to $12m (£4.8m to £7.3m) at Sotheby's. The contemporary sale fetched $134.4m (£81.3m) with 52 out of 54 lots sold. Warhol's 1963 painting Green...
Tags: New York City, Sotheby, Andy Warhol, New York, Christie's, Robert Rauschenberg, Auction, Philip Guston, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Modern painters, Sotheby's, Auctioneering, The Velvet Underground, Art dealer, Yves, Artist, Rebecca Belmore, William Kurelek, Entertainment Culture, Roberta Latow, Art, Visual arts of the United States, Henry Geldzahler
Warhol painting a hot ticket at NYC auction
New York City :: NY :: USA | 15 days ago
Credibility A painting by pop artist Andy Warhol, "200 One Dollar Bills," brought $43.8 million at auction, more than three times its highest presale estimate of $12 million. The piece, one of Warhol's first silk-screen paintings, sold at Sotheby's on Wednesday evening.
Tags: Sotheby, Andy Warhol, art market, warhol paintings, contemporary art, dollar bills, New York City, Auction, Christie's, Jeff Koons, EBay, Pablo Picasso, Auctioneering, Manhattan, Sotheby's, The Andy Warhol Museum, Campbell's Soup Cans, Pop art, The Velvet Underground, 15 minutes of fame, Business Finance, Peter Doig, Auction theory
Richard Attenborough art sale beats expectations
London :: United Kingdom | 16 days ago
Credibility British paintings from the collection of film director Richard Attenborough fetched 4.6 million pounds ($7.7 million) at an auction on Wednesday, well in excess of pre-sale estimates of 1.9-2.9 million pounds. The 50 paintings, including one Attenborough...
Tags: Richard Attenborough, West London, Sotheby
With Top Quality Offerings, Sotheby's Nets $181 Million
New York City :: NY :: USA | 22 days ago
Credibility The stunning performance of Impressionist and Modern art in Sotheby’s Wednesday sale where 56 paintings, drawings and sculptures brought just over $181 million can leave no one in doubt that the art market is as vigorous as it ever was before last year’s...
Tags: Sotheby, art market
Prices Far Surpass Estimates at Sotheby’s Auction
New York City :: NY :: USA | 23 days ago
Credibility In an Impressionist and modern art sale that had all the right ingredients quality, value and variety Sotheby’s salesroom was teeming on Wednesday night with a United Nations of enthusiastic bidders from Latin America, China, the United States, Russia...
Tags: Sotheby, modern art
Inside Art: Thanks for the Memories, Andy Warhol
New York City :: NY :: USA | 28 days ago
Credibility One spring day in 1965, during her senior year in high school, Cathy Naso, a wide-eyed girl from Brooklyn, stepped off a dingy freight elevator and into Andy Warhol’s legendary Factory. Though she was there to write about Warhol for a French class assignment,...
Tags: Andy Warhol, Cathy Naso, Sotheby
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