NEW YORK - In its second Evening Sale of the week, Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, achieved $147 million for paintings and sculpture with top lots from Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, and Wassily Kandinsky commanding the highest prices. The sale follows Wednesday’s Evening Sale of two single-owner collections, The Modern Age: The Hillman […]
LONDON - Three centuries of British Art on Paper, exemplifying the dramatic power and also calm beauty captured in the best figure and landscape drawings, watercolours and rare pastels, are offered in Christie’s sale on Wednesday, 10 December 2008. Kick starting British Art Week, this auction features a remarkable range of over 90 drawings, many […]
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British Art on Paper at Christie?s
The sale on 20 November, covers all styles and periods with a real emphasis on quality pieces.
A great example of a classic quality lot, is the Contemporary 18 Carat White Gold Diamond Three Stone Ring (lot 454), whose certificated rectangular step cut diamond weighs 1.36 carat, and is excellently proportioned, beautifully polished and flanked by […]
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Exceptional Jewellery for Tennants Sale
Two of the rarest chairs to ever come onto the market will go under the hammer at Bonhams & Goodman’s Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction in Sydney on Monday 10 November.
Constructed entirely of whalebone, the chairs are the only known life-size examples of whalebone furniture. Bonhams & Goodman’s National Head of Decorative Arts, […]
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Whalebone Chairs for Sydney Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction
Chagall, Faberge and Burliuk among the greats represented, Nov. 14, at Heritage Auction Galleries
Ilya Mashkov, one of the great masters of the Russian avant-garde painting movement, and a founder of the famous “Jack of Diamonds” Group, has long been venerated by Russian art lovers and collectors for his inimitable style and place among the artistic […]
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Russian Fine Art Auction in Dallas
