Share:Bid rival planned to return sculptures to China By Andrew Johnson The Chinese businessman who sabotaged the controversial Paris sale of two sculptures claimed by the Beijing government from Yves Saint Laurent’s art collection last week may have had the best of intentions. But in preventing the sale as a “political protest”, Cai Mingchao may […]
Share:By Scott Reyburn March 16 (Bloomberg) — Dealers at the world’s biggest art and antiques fair cut prices of some modern works by as much as 20 percent as collectors sink cash into Old Masters, whose prices have held steady to defy the economic gloom. Paintings by Peter Paul Rubens and Gabriel Metsu were sold […]
Share: Andrea Mohin/The New York Times This year’s offerings at the New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show include Jon Eric Riis’s jacket with a modern skull motif. More Photos > By KAREN ROSENBERG The annual spring extravaganza known as Asia Week is under way, but like so much else it’s been downsized. The New […]
Share:WENDY MOONAN A SPITTOON Born in England As director of the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, N.Y., since 1992, David Whitehouse knows his way around the antique glass market. But even he can stumble across real surprises. In October he went to London to preview a Sotheby’s sale of Islamic art. “There were two […]
Share:Jenny Barchfield A Chinese bronze rabbit head, (R) and bronze rat head (L), which sold for 14 million euros each. Photo / AP PARIS – An auction dispersing the vast art collection of the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent lived up to expectations billing it as the “sale of the century”. The auction exceeded […]
Share:Source: Art Daily A pait of visitors look at a marble minotaur on view at the Grand Palais. Photo: EFE/Yoan Valat. PARIS.- The three-day sale of the magnificent Collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé at the Grand Palais, offered by Christie’s in association with Pierre Bergé & Associates auctioneers, realised in total €373,935,500 […]
Share:Art houses can use these fictitious purchase bills to set an inflated benchmark price for works by artists, causing genuine investors to pay more Khushboo Narayan – THE MINT Mumbai: An investigation into the business practices of Osian’s and Saffronart Management Corp., two of India’s premier art houses, has revealed several irregularities in their account […]
Share:Source: Artdaily.com Reporter Ulrich Boser tells the story behind the caper and reveals for the first time the identities of the thieves. NEW YORK, NY.- Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole $500 million worth of art, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, […]
Share:Source: Euronews24.org NEW DELHI — Indians are expressing outrage over a New York auction that is set to sell some of the most personal belongings of India’s great independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi — the gaunt, bare-chested man whose ascetic life defied materialism.The auction is a travesty for many Indians, for whom Gandhi is a […]
Share:TURKISH ART AUCTION Sotheby’s is holding its inaugural sale of Turkish art on 4 March 2009 in London. Check out the art and see 5 Turkish contemporary artists talking about their paintings, photographs and sculptures in the sale. Themes of war, imprisonment, fighting and human sacrifice run through the works. Power and powerlessness are expressed […]
