On November 1, 2009 more than 400 art lovers, buyers and voyeurs jostled for space in Freeman’s Philadelphia, PA auction gallery—some sitting on the floor while others spilled out into the foyer. Their purpose: to buy up the paintings, prints and photographs that once lined the halls of the now bankrupt Lehman Brothers offices in […]
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Online Bidders Out in Force for Lehman Brothers Sale
Contemporary Art collectors are eagerly awaiting the November 10th sale set to take place at Bonhams New York. The concise and meticulously assembled sale includes key work by legendary Contemporary and Modern figures such as Willem de Kooning, James Rosenquist, Henry Matisse, Lynn Chadwick, Alexander Calder and James Turrell.
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De Kooning and Lalanne Sheep Sculptures for Bonhams New York Auction
L.S. Lowry’s painting of the village that inspired Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights will go under the hammer on 1st July at Bonhams New Bond Street Sale of 20th Century British Art estimated at up to £180,000.
The painting is one of four Lowry’s included in the sale, the other three representing more conventional subjects for the […]
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Lowry Paintings for Bonhams London Auction
Many a time it is the background story that lends a work of art its true fascination. This once again proves to be the case with one of the top lots at the auction of 19th century paintings, to be held on 1st April 2009 during the Vienna Dorotheum first auction week of 2009.
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Dorotheum Old Master Paintings, 19th Century Paintings, Antiques, and Jewellery
Sotheby’s March 17th sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art in New York will feature a tightly-curated selection of ceramics, paintings, and sculpture of the highest quality, from a number of distinguished American private collections. Included will be superb lots from The Gordon Getty Collection, among them three pieces of fine Qianlong mark […]
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Sotheby?s Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
