Auctions
HONG KONG — The all-important auction season kicked off yesterday, April 3, with the sale of elBulli’s wine cellar. Still to come is the marathon of auctions for art, ceramics, timepieces, and other fine collectibles. Below, ARTINFO highlights all...
Poly Auctions officially opened their Hong Kong exhibition space, the Poly Gallery, ahead of their spring auction series.The 232-square-meter space on the seventh floor of One Pacific Place will regularly host exhibitions, lectures, and other art-...
Asia Week kicked off on Tuesday with a bang. As has been the trend in the last few years, there were plenty of lots selling for 10 times estimates. As always, Chinese ceramics are hot, as are traditional Indian and Himalayan works of art. Perhaps more...
The Bonhams Australia sale of works from the collection of recently deceased art collector Colin Laverty at the Museum of Contemporary Art on 24 March will be one of the most closely watched art auctions in recent years. Featuring a range of works by some of...
With her startling copper green face and the sparse background, 'Chinese Girl' may not be the most obvious masterpiece -- but it became one of the best-selling prints of all time and is expected to raise up to $750,000 at auction Wednesday.The once...
Five years after its inception, Asia Week will be bigger than ever this spring. Growing 25 percent over last year, the event will include auctions and special exhibitions at 43 galleries, many of which have traveled to New York from cities across the world....
In the wake of the now largely forgotten price-fixing scandal of 2000, which saw Christie’s and Sotheby’s jointly shelling out $512 million in fines for charging sellers rigged nonnegotiable commissions, the first order of business for the houses was to find...
The 20th- and 21st-century design sales closed out the season with generally good, but not spectacular, results. Judging from the action this time, the frenzied bidding of a few years back isn’t about to return. This bodes well for the long-term health of the...
Between 1988 and 2006, Shun Kurokochi, who describes himself as “an ordinary man working in a bank,” assembled an unusually large collection dedicated to the work of the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara.Bit by bit, Kurokochi saved part of his salary to buy...
A painting by Chinese master Zao Wou-ki leads the Sotheby’s contemporary art auction series in Hong Kong this April. Sotheby’s Hong Kong Spring Sales 2013 will be held April 3-8 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The marathon of auctions...
