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Egmont Labadie
Three major wine and spirits auctions will happen in Hong Kong in May at Bonhams, Christie’s and Zachys, and one in Taipei at the very beginning of June held by the Ravenel auction house. Here is ARTINFO’s preview of these sales. May 22, Bonhams,...
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Judd Tully
NEW YORK — Auction history was made at Christie’s postwar and contemporary evening sale on Wednesday, which raked in $495,021,500 — the highest ever tally for any auction in any category. It nicked the $491.4 million mark set at Christie’s Impressionist...
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Egmont Labadie
May will be an exciting month for wine lovers across the US with four major wine sales scheduled to take place at Bonhams, Acker, Merrall and Condit, and Christie’s. ARTINFO presents a preview of what to expect.May 18, Bonhams, San FranciscoBonhams ...
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Judd Tully
NEW YORK — Sold to benefit conservation projects for endangered species, the 33 donated art works in the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s “The 11th Hour Auction” at Christie’s realized a whopping $38.5 million Monday evening. It was an excellent portent...
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Egmont Labadie
Here is ARTINFO's preview of six wines sales happening this month in Europe across Geneva, London, and Paris. Christie’s will hold a very prestigious auction in Geneva on May 14-15, featuring wines of Henri Jayer (41 lots of the years 1978 to...
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Judd Tully
NEW YORK — After last night's robust Sotheby's sale, the Impressionist and Modern market continued to swing at Christie’s Wednesday evening, though at a slightly lower volume, totaling $158,505,000 for the 44 lots that sold. The performance fell midway...
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Reuters
Christie's Hong Kong asked model and actress Lynn Xiong to show off a beautiful 75-carat briolette-style diamond. Expected to sell for between $8.5 to 12.5 million U.S. dollars, it's the largest pear-shaped diamond of its kind...
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Egmont Labadie
Sotheby’s London wine auction on April 17 reached a total of £1.35million (pre-sale high £1.28) and was dominated by the Burgundy wines owned by the late Henri Jayer, which represented six of the top ten lots. A nine-bottle vertical of Cros...
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Egmont Labadie
As discussed in a recent preview (read full story here), two wine sales will take place in New York on April 27 at Acker, Merrall and Condit and at Sotheby’s. The catalogues of these sales are now available. At Acker, the auction will prominently...
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Belle Zhao
Click to view jewelry by Cindy ChaoBEIJING — Every year Cindy Chao completes only 36 pieces of jewelry, but that hasn't stopped women and dignitaries from the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from lining up to put their precious gems in her vault...














