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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Source: samaylive.com New Delhi, Feb 24 : Noted auctioneer Osian’s has clocked Rs 3.38 crore in sales at its second auction this year with contemporary artist Atul Dodiya’s work dedicated to former Team India captain Rahul Dravid fetching the highest bid of Rs 57.6 lakhs. A total of 25 out of 50 selected lots that […]
Source:- Saibal Dasgupta BEIJING: The Chinese foreign ministry on Tuesday joined forces with a group of Chinese lawyers, who have been trying to stop Christie’s from auctioning two bronze statues looted from Beijing 150 years back. The lawyers have been overruled by a Paris court, but the Chinese government is now trying to make it […]
Source: Artmarketmoniter.com The Art Market Monitor sat down with Ian Peck of the Art Capital Group a few weeks ago–just after the Old Master sales and just before the London sales–to discuss Art Capital Group’s view of the market from their unique position providing financing to dealers and collectors. AMM: You saw the Old Master […]
Source :- Time.com The Saint Laurent-Berge auction at the Grand Palais in Paris Pulling in record prices for seven artists, the much-anticipated auction of Yves Saint Laurent’s art collection got off to a flying start on Day One’s sale of Impressionist and modern art. The $266 million tallied on Monday — a record auction for […]
