Auctions
Selling the art collection of former tax lawyer Ross Clarke and his wife Rona Clarke in Brisbane was always going to be a gamble for Melbourne-based Mossgreen Auctions. Although the couple are based in Queensland and are well known in their home state,...
SALE: Under the InfluenceLOCATION: Phillips de Pury & Company, 450 Park Avenue, New YorkDATE: September 20, 2012ABOUT: “Under the Influence,” which opens the fall auction season at Phillips de Pury & Company, has an impressive...
As the wider Impressionist and modern market slowly withers on the auction vine — the victim of a paucity of first-rate material — the international market for Surrealism has started to sizzle. Interest in the erotically preoccupied mid-century movement...
SEPTEMBER9/7–11/11: Gwangju Biennale9/7–12/9: São Paulo Bienal9/18–12/31: “Regarding Warhol: 60 Artists, 50 Years,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York9/24–25: Sale of property from the estate of Brooke Astor, Sotheby’s, New York9/25–1/20: “Impressionism and...
The Chinese mainland’s oldest auction company, China Guardian, will be aiming straight at the Hong Kong market’s sweet spot of Chinese traditional modern painting when it holds its first sales in the harbor city on October 7. Works by auction favorites Qi...
If you ever wanted to buy an Andy Warhol, now is your chance. This fall, thousands of works by the Pop icon will hit the market when the artist’s foundation deaccessions its entire collection through a combination of sales and donations. The paintings,...
SALE: Modern & Contemporary South Asian ArtLOCATION: Sotheby’s New YorkDATE: September 10, 2012ABOUT: With Chinese sales on the decline this year, Sotheby’s is wisely focusing one of its three Asia Week sales on the growing South Asian art market. With an...
Deutscher and Hackett’s 29th August 2012 Important Australian + International Art Auction, which included 54 works from the Wesfarmers Collection, produced a respectable total of $4,040,340 against an estimate of $4.5m and $5.7m, and final figures of 83% sold...
Last April, legendary fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy approached Christie’s with a drawing in hand. The pen-and-ink sketch depicted an 18th-century drawing room filled with antique furniture, tapestries, and iron busts. Givenchy's vision will come to life...
SALE: The Taffner CollectionLOCATION: Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh.DATE: September 7, 2012New York television executives Donald and Eleanor Taffner had no Scottish heritage to speak of, but they nonetheless became some of the most notable collectors of...
