By Deborah Brewster The boom in the art market has handed strong results to the two big auction houses, with Christie’s and Sotheby’s together selling about $7bn worth of artworks in the first six months of the year – 12 per cent more than last year. Christie’s said yesterday it had total worldwide sales of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Eugenia Levenson Is there a bubble in the art market? Sales of high-end works defy expectations amid an expanding pool of oil-rich buyers.NEW YORK (Fortune) — Luxury these days is a tale of two markets: consumers continue to snap up high-priced Louis Vuitton bags even as they balk at paying full price for Coach […]
Press Trust of IndiaWednesday, July 2, 2008 (London)An untitled sculpture by an Indian sculptor was sold for 1,945,250 pounds after being hotly contested by three bidders on telephone at Sotheby’s in London.The stunning piece crafted by Anish Kapoor soared above its pre-sale estimate of 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 pounds at the auction last night. This price […]
Source: antiques-collectibles-auction-news.com SOTHEBY’S SALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART TO FEATURE EXCITING WORKS BY LEADING INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ARTISTSINDIAN ARTISTS such as Subodh Gupta (b. 1964), Bharti Kher (b. 1969), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), Raqib Shaw (b. 1974) and T.V. Santhosh (b. 1968) are an ever-growing force in Sotheby’s international sales of Contemporary Art – in addition to […]
