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Fourteen Unseen Salvador Dali Paintings Sell at Auction for More Than $1Million
Released: June 19, 2013Surreal, sinister and erotically charged compositions amongst a hoard of Dali works that sold at Bonhams. Fourteen original Salvador Dalí watercolour fruit studies, previously unseen by collectors made their auction debut at Bonhams’ Impressionist and Modern Art sale in London today, 18th June. All fourteen lots in the series sold for the total of £726,700. The collection attracted interest from around the world culminating in battles between buyers on the telephone, internet and bidders in the saleroom. Hasty plum, Prunier hâtif, rushed to first place selling to a bidder on the t...
Color lithograph of Napoleon by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec will headline Elite Decorative Arts' July 13 auction
Released: June 18, 2013(BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – A color lithograph depicting the French leader Napoleon on horseback with two other men by renowned Post-Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Fr., 1864-1901) is the expected top lot in an auction slated for Saturday, July 13, at Elite Decorative Arts, in the firm’s gallery located at the Quantum Town Center in Boynton Beach. Also offered in the auction – dedicated mostly to fine decorative arts and Chinese works –are a large and impressive Chinese carved African ivory emperor and empress, a palace-sized Chinese carved African ivory village, a Ch...
Rago Auctions to Handle Collection of Renowned Dealer/Auctioneer Tony Tenaglia
Released: June 14, 2013RAGO AUCTIONS TO HANDLE COLLECTION OF RENOWNED DEALER/AUCTIONEER TONY TENAGLIA. Lambertville, NJ: Rago Auctions has been chosen to handle the Collection of Tony Tenaglia – the finest pieces acquired over decades of buying and selling by this dealer and auctioneer. The multi-day auction is scheduled for December 6-8, 2013. Tony Tenaglia, who died last November at 55, was legendary in the Bucks County area for his acumen and his passion for antiques. Everyone who followed him at Bristol Auctions, Estate Treasures of Bucks County and the Golden Nugget flea...
PORCELAIN PLAQUE & GILT BRONZE CLOCK FAR SURPASS ESTIMATES AT BONHAMS LOS ANGELES
Released: June 14, 2013LOS ANGELES — Bonhams is pleased to report that two pieces in the June 10 Fine European Furniture & Decorative Arts auction sold in excess of 10x their pre-auction low estimates: an important and large Sèvres porcelain plaque for $152,500 (est. $15,000-20,000) as well as a French gilt bronze and partially malachite veneered mantel clock for $110,500 (est. $10,000-15,000). The 1819 plaque depicts the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine, painted after Correggio’s famous 16th century composition by Swiss enamel master Abraham Constantin. Formerly the official enamel portraitist for the Fre...
Fine Art and Furniture Featured at Gray’s Early Summer Sale
Released: June 12, 2013Gray’s Auctioneers starts summer off in style with the Fine Art, Furniture and Decorations Auction, on June 26th. The auction features a collection of paintings, drawings and fine art prints, as well as furniture, jewelry and decorative arts objects. Highlights of the sale include paintings by two of Cleveland’s most noteworthy and beloved artists, Carl Gaertner and Viktor Schreckengost. Both men, accomplished graduates of the Cleveland Institute of Art in the 1920s, went on to achieve national acclaim in the fine art market. Lot 19 is a dynamic still life watercolor by Schreckengost co...
'Lost' Victorian Painting Rediscovered After 100 Years in Hiding
Released: June 10, 2013An important 19th century painting has come to light that recalls images of sexuality in Pompeii, a subject that shocked audiences in Victorian England. The Ionian Dance by Sir Edward John Poynter, director of the National Gallery and President of the Royal Academy of Arts, will be offered for sale on 10th July at Bonhams’ 19th Century Paintings sale, estimated at £300,000-£400,000. In wonderful condition and contained within the original tabernacle frame, the painting has been rediscovered after almost 100 years out of the spotlight. Last seen on the market in 1915, the paintin...
Princeton University Art Museum Presents Faces and Facets: Recent Acquisitions
Released: June 6, 201350 exceptional new acquisitions demonstrate range and depth of Museum’s collections and include major works by Rembrandt, Smithson, Schwitters, Wilke and many others PRINCETON, NJ—This summer the Princeton University Art Museum features 50 exceptional recent acquisitions in a special installation that underlines both the continuing ambition of the Museum’s collecting activities and the universal scope of its collections. The exhibition, Faces and Facets, includes works by such artists as Jules Olitski, Philip Pearlstein, Bridget Riley, Florian Schmidt, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Smithson, ...
Van Gogh in Paris
Released: June 6, 2013Eykyn Maclean will present Van Gogh in Paris in September 2013; a landmark exhibition exploring the years from 1886 to 1888 when Van Gogh was living and working in Paris. This period was paramount to the artist’s development and proved to be a turning point in his career. Van Gogh’s work evolved considerably as he began to move away from the dark palette of his early Dutch period to the vivid and lively colour characteristic of his later work. Nicholas Maclean explains, “This exhibition explores the period of Van Gogh’s work at its most pivotal moment. We wanted to place the evolutionof hi...
London Art Week: New Initiative Provides Platform for Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the City’s most Prestigious Galleries and Auction Houses
Released: June 5, 2013London Art Week is an exciting joint venture that unites Master Paintings Week and Master Drawings and Sculpture Week (formerly Master Drawings London). The new collaboration will provide a coherent platform, sharing advertising and creating a new online portal through which the individual websites can be accessed. London Art Week, from June 28 to July 5, 2013, will also produce a map with the locations of all the participants making it easier for collectors to navigate the week. More than 50 specialist dealers across the fine art disciplines and the major London auction houses will take p...
Roerich Painting Becomes Most Expensive Russian Artwork Ever Sold at Auction
Released: June 5, 2013Russian art returned to fighting form at Bonhams with a record-breaking Russian sale on June 5, 2013, totalling £12,384,675 and setting two new world records. In an overflowing salesroom, the mesmerizing Madonna Laboris by Nikolai Roerich (Russian, 1874-1947) sold to a bidder on the telephone for £7.9million, setting a new world record price for the artist and making it the most valuable Russian picture ever to be sold in a Russian art auction. The lost masterpiece Madonna Laboris was always known to exist but its whereabouts had remained a mystery until it was rediscovered by Bonham...
THE METRO SHOW ANNOUNCES "METRO CURATES" A REFINED FOCUS ON DEALER-CURATED PRESENTATIONS AT METROPOLITAN PAVILION, CHELSEA, NYC, JANUARY 22-26, 2014
Released: June 6, 2013When the 2014 edition of the METRO Show opens for its five-day run on Wednesday evening January 22, at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, fairgoers will experience a thoroughly engaging concept billed METRO Curates. This all-encompassing theme puts forth single-artist and/or focused presentations curated by METRO dealers to distinctly articulate their point of view and where their specialty lies. Says Caroline Kerrigan Lerch, director of the METRO Show: "METRO Curates is our way of initiating a conversation between the dealer and the fairgoer, whether th...
Rediscovered Masterpieces to be Unveiled during Master Paintings Week
Released: June 3, 2013Master Paintings Week (MPW), now in its fifth year and already an important event in the London art calendar, takes place from 28 June to 5 July 2013 and, for the first time, will have the support of The Crown Estate. The successful collaboration between twenty leading dealers and three international auction houses highlights the extraordinarily wide selection of European paintings dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries available in London. A number of newly rediscovered works will be displayed during Master Paintings Week including The Expulsion of the moneychangers from the templ...
Rare Bernard Buffet Oil, Faberge, Antique French Furniture & Silver Featured at Clarke's June 3rd Auction
Released: June 1, 2013On Monday, June 3rd at 5 pm, Clarke Auction will present what might be one of its best auctions to date. Normally a press release is written about one or two rare and important items and it is easy to highlight them. This time there is so much wonderful and rare stuff in each and every category that it is suggested that you view the catalog thoroughly at www.ClarkeNY.com as not everything can be mentioned. In our art section we have a freshly discovered large and important oil on canvas by German surrealist artist, Richard Oelze, $60,000 – 80,000. This magnificent painting is well...
Introducing Art Baltimore 2013: Historic, Modern & Contemporary Galleries
Released: May 31, 2013The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, the largest indoor summer fine art, antiques and jewelry show in the country, proudly introduces Art Baltimore 2013 – a concept that features a spectacular selection of international fine art galleries at the Baltimore Convention Center – August 22-25, 2013. The show’s diverse array of artworks and galleries have been carefully selected and strategically integrated into the show, offering guests the opportunity to experience a variety of high quality fine art and an unrivalled art experience. Art Baltimore 2013’s objective is to highlight leading gall...
GROGAN & COMPANY CELEBRATES TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
Released: May 30, 2013Dedham, Massachusetts - Twenty-five years ago this past March, Michael Grogan conducted the Inaugural Auction of his new company, Grogan & Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers. To commemorate this milestone, Grogan and Company will be holding their Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Auction on June 16th, 2013. The auction will offer a fine selection of Fine Art, Furniture and Decorative Works of Art, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs. "It is exciting to be celebrating our twenty-fifth anniversary with such a diverse and quality filled auction," stated Michael B. Grogan, "With ...
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