Sotheby’s Hong Kong presents Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings Spring Sales

HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong presents 187 lots of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art estimated in excess of HK$77 million / US$9.9 million* in two sales on 5 and 6 April during its Spring 2014 Sale Series. At Modern and Contemporary Asian Art – Evening Sale on 5 April, sixteen exceptional works by the region’s most iconic artists will be offered, including works by modern masters S. Sudjojono, Sudjana Kerton, Affandi, Cheong Soo Pieng, Romauldo F. Locatelli as well as leading [...]

Works by Picasso, Calder, Toulouse-Lautrec to headline Cottone’s March 29 auction

GENESO, NY.- On March 29th, Cottone Auctions will be holding their annual Winter Fine Art and Antiques Auction offering 500+ lots in Cottone’s 6000 square foot gallery at 120 Court Street, Geneseo, NY. This important estate auction will include original paintings by noted listed artists, several Tiffany lamps, silver, sculpture, Asian art, antiquities, art glass, Oriental rugs and period furniture. Internet bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com (formerly Artfact.com). Featured will be numerous pieces from the prominent estate of William Levine [...]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong announces Modern and Contemporary Asian Art Evening Sale

HONG KONG.- Following the success of its 40th Anniversary Evening Sale last October which established auction records for 12 modern and contemporary Asian artists, Sotheby’s Hong Kong presents Modern and Contemporary Asian Art – Evening Sale on Saturday, 5 April 2014. Offering more than 50 works, many of exceptional quality, from 20th Century Chinese Art, Contemporary Asian Art and Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art categories, the sale is estimated in excess of HK$400 million / US$51 million* in total. Featuring artists such [...]

Poly Auction Hong Kong to hold 2014 Spring Auctions from 6 to 7 April at Grand Hyatt Hong Kong

HONG KONG.- Poly Auction Hong Kong 2014 Autumn Auctions will be held at Grand Hyatt Hong Kong from 5 to 7 April. The Autumn Auctions will include 7 categories, namely Chinese and Asian Modern & Contemporary Art, Chinese Contemporary Ink Paintings, Classical Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy, Fine Modern Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Jewels and Watches, Chinese and Western Wine. Notably, Poly Auction Hong Kong will also present its inaugural sale of “Chinese and Western Wine” featuring [...]

Christie’s exhibits works by Jean-Michel Basquiat from the Collection of Alexis Adler

NEW YORK, NY.- Before Jean-Michel became Basquiat, and could afford studios and canvases, he painted all over his apartments — on walls, doors, refrigerators, clothes and any other bare surface he could find. In 1979, the artist began transforming the East Village apartment he was sharing with Alexis Adler, just such a living installation. Christie’s presents a blockbuster month-long curated exhibition featuring a grouping of approximately 50 works coming from the Lower East Side apartment, where she lived with Jean-Michel Basquiat from 1979 [...]

James Ensor prints from the Mira Jacob Collection to be offered at Christie’s

LONDON.- Christie’s announced the sale of James Ensor Prints: The Mira Jacob Collection, which will be offered on Wednesday, 19 March in London. This remarkable collection is one of the most comprehensive groups of the artist’s graphic oeuvre in private hands, comprising 161 works dating from 1886 through to 1931. Included are many hand-coloured proofs, some great rarities and all of the artist’s most important printed subjects. The collection was carefully put together by the Parisian gallerist and collector Mira Jacob, one [...]

Francesco Guardi masterpiece to be offered for the first time in over a century

LONDON.- Christie’s announced that Venice, the Bacino di San Marco with the Piazzetta and the Doge‟s Palace by Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) From The Baron Henri de Rothschild Collection will be offered for the first time in over a century, in the London Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale, on Tuesday 8 July (estimate: £8-10 million/ $13-16.5 million / €9.5-12 million). Executed at the height of Guardi’s maturity and depicting one of the most celebrated prospects of Venice, centering on the Doge’s [...]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery presents The Odyssey of a Master: Chao Chung-Hsiang-A selling exhibition

HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery presents a selling exhibition titled The Odyssey of a Master : Chao Chung-hsiang from 28 February to 12 March, offering a retrospective of over 20 works dated between 1958 and 1991 by renowned modern Chinese artist, Chao Chung-hsiang (Zhao Chun-xiang; 1910 – 1991) who created a dynamic and lyrical visual impact by superimposing colourful concentric circles of acrylic paint on ink. Angelika Li, Gallery Director, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, said, “Chao Chung-hsiang devoted his entire life to [...]

Major private collection of Scottish born Russell Flint paintings to be auctioned

EDINBURGH.- Lyon & Turnbull will sell a major private collection of paintings by Edinburgh born artist Sir William Russell Flint at auction of British & European Paintings – 30th April 2014 at 33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh EH1 3RR. The collection is worth £200,000 with estimates ranging between £5,000 and £50,000. By his death in 1969 Sir William Russell Flint was a world famous artist: a long term Royal Academician and President of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour. A familiar face [...]

Christie’s to offer most important collection of Old Master Drawings to come to the market in a generation

LONDON.- Christie’s announced the sale of The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection which will be offered over a series of sales in London, Amsterdam and Paris throughout 2014 and 2015. This extensive collection of Old Master drawings is the most important to come to auction in a generation and features works by the greatest masters such as Rubens, Rembrandt, Goltzius, and de Gheyn. Formed by Professor I.Q. van Regteren Altena (1899 – 1980), a distinguished art historian and former head of the [...]

Important collection of women’s art anchors Waddington’s Contemporary Canadian Art Auction

TORONTO.- Waddington’s presents its largest and most diverse offering of Canadian Contemporary art on March 4, 2014. The auction will feature over 120 lots ranging from conceptual, large-scale works by Robert Fones to Montreal street artist, Stikki Peaches, and the all-women Femmarte Collection. This is the third auction of Waddington’s contemporary art division, Concrete Contemporary Auctions and Projects, proving the potential for a commercial secondary market for contemporary art. Auction Highlights Stephen Ranger, Waddington’s Vice President and Director of Concrete Contemporary, is [...]

The collection of ‘Les Trois Garçons’ to be offered at Christie’s South Kensington in March

LONDON.- On the 5 March Christie’s South Kensington will offer for sale the inspiring collection of ‘Les Trois Garçons’, Michel Lasserre, Hassan Abdullah, and Stefan Karlsson, who are best known for their Shoreditch restaurant of the same name. The restaurant has long been a celebrity destination, for stars such as Madonna, Nicole Kidman, Grace Jones, Kate Moss, Damien Hirst, Tom Ford, Gilbert & George, Ronnie Wood, and Yoko Ono. The trio are also the proprietors of the glamorous cocktail bar Loungelover, café-come-design shop [...]

Magicians of Printmaking: The Collection of Stamperia d’Arte 2RC to be offered at Christie’s

LONDON.- Christie’s announced the forthcoming sale of BUONO DI STAMPA: Prints from the Archive of Stamperia d‟Arte 2RC to be held on Wednesday, 26 February in South Kensington. The 112 carefully selected works, which will be seen together for the first time, have been lovingly assembled over fifty years from the renowned studio of Stamperia d‟Arte 2RC, that was founded in 1959 by the Rossi family in Rome, Italy. These unique prints, are the bon à tirer impressions, that tell the intimate [...]

Bonhams announces Sale of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art

LONDON.- Bonhams sale of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art on April 8 in London features stand-out works from the region’s leading artists. The sale’s cover lot, Sohrab Sepehri, Untitled, is an important work from the artists emblematic Tree Series, estimated at £120,000-£150,000. Poet, artist and philosopher, Sepehri was one of Iran’s most celebrated and influential modern intellectuals. The present work is an extremely fine example and carries an impeccable provenance having been purchased in 1971 from the artist by his close [...]

Saffronart’s back-to-back live Modern and Contemporary Indian art auctions show art market strength

MUMBAI.- The Saffronart auction sale room at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai was packed with over two hundred collectors, in addition to online and telephone bidders from around the world, generating tremendous enthusiasm for the artworks on offer. A surge in excitement was palpable as S.H. Raza’s Haut De Cagnes, the highlight of the evening sale of Modern art, appeared on screens. Estimated at Rs. 3 – 5 crores (US$ 491,805 – 819,675), competitive bidding between room and phone bidders drove it [...]