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Claude Monet auction most expensive in European art history

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Share:By Stephen Adams The stratospheric state of the global art market has been underlined by figures that show last month’s ‘Monet’ auction at Christie’s in London was the most lucrative in European history. The sale of Monet’s Le bassin aux nymphéas doubled the previous record for a work by the Impressionist artist Despite the global […]

Barrister’s $2m gift of rare Asian art

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Share:Michael Abbott, QC, with a 17th century Balinese temple door he donated to the Art Gallery of SA. TIM LLOYD July 18, 2008 12:30am A $2 MILLION art gift yesterday has given the Art Gallery of South Australia national leadership in South East Asian art. The gift of 75 rare textiles and objects, some dating […]

‘Contradictions and Complexities’

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Share: DIFFERING ASPECTS: Mithu Sen’s “Perhaps You” is part of a group exhibition at d.e.n. contemporary featuring works by female artists from India. By Holly Myers, Special to The Times July 18, 2008 “Contradictions and Complexities: Contemporary Art From India,” on view at both d.e.n. contemporary and Western Project, takes a straightforward approach to an […]

Sotheby’s sees high prices for Indian artists

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Share:KOLKATA: Sotheby’s day sale of contemporary art in London has seen some Indian artists achieve tidy prices. Raqib Shaw’s Chrysanthemum & Bee,which was estimated at £80,000-120 ,000, has been picked up for £103,250 and Anish Kapoor’s After Marsyas, with an estimate of £70,000- £90,000, has sold for £109,250. At the same time, a Subodh Gupta […]

Christie’s to Sell Yves Saint Laurent Art Collection

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Share:July 16 (Bloomberg) — Christie’s International said it will be selling the art collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge in Paris in February 2009. The auction will be held in association with Pierre Berge & Associates, the Paris auction house owned by the fashion designer’s former business partner, Christie’s said today in an […]

Art sales: Old Masters tot up £100m

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Share:Colin Gleadell on the London sales With auction prices for contemporary art still somewhere in the stratosphere, it often felt like catch-up time at the Old Master sales in London last week. The Misers was estimated at £100,000, but spiralled on trade competition to £2.1 million Three drawings by Goya, for instance, unseen for more […]

India to hold biggest-ever art summit in August

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Share:New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) India will join the ranks of global art hubs like Basel in Switzerland and Miami in the US with its first multi-disciplinary global art fair, the India Art Summit, here August 22-24. The fair will showcase the most comprehensive collection of Indian modern and contemporary art by over 100 artists […]

CHRISTIE’S AUCTION OF IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART REALISES £144 MILLION / $284 MILLION / €182 MILLION

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Share:London – Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place this evening (24 June 2008) and realised £144,440,500 / $283,970,023 / €182,428,352 – the highest ever total for an art auction held in Europe. The top lot of the auction was Le bassin aux nymphéas, a masterpiece painting by Claude Monet which realised £40,921,250 […]

Showcase Singapore, Asia’s premier art event

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Share:Source:- easiertravel.com Fortune Cookie Projects, a partnership between Mary Dinaburg and Howard Rutkowski, has organised Showcase Singapore, a boutique art fair of twenty three of the best international contemporary art galleries who will feature their work in the showcase. The event will be held in Singapore from the 9th to 12th September 2008, in association […]

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