Ancient Art & Antiques
Sally Gabori, an 89 year old artist from Mornington Island, has won the inaugural Rockhampton Art Gallery $50,000 Gold Award. Gabori, who began painting only five years ago, won the award with a spectacular painting measuring 2 metres by 4.5 metres...
A week of major auctions of Aboriginal art is about to begin in Melbourne with Sotheby’s Australia holding their first Aboriginal art sale of the year on Tuesday the 5th of June.Sotheby’s will auction a total of 105 lots which will include rare artefacts...
Bonhams Australia May series of auctions reflected the usual Bonhams approach to the sale of art and antiques which is characterised by high volume for both the number of sales and the number of lots being sold. An intensive six-catalogue auction series...
SALE: Antiquities at Christie's and Sotheby'sLOCATION: New YorkDATE: June 7-8ABOUT: Next week, New York's auction houses will be taken over by ancient, rare marble statuary as Christie's and Sotheby's prepare for their respective antiquities sales. At Sotheby...
Ousted Tunisian dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family have already been accused of plundering the nation's antiquities, particularly the ancient site of Carthage, for their own personal gain and enjoyment. Now it seems that the family's illicit...
On Sunday May 20 Mossgreen Auctions sold a collection of art antiques owned by Thomas Hamel, an award-winning interior designer, and Martyn Cook, an internationally renowned antique and fine art dealer.Described by the auction house as “one of the biggest and...
Bonhams Australia have reaffirmed their position as the secondary market leaders for Aboriginal art with a magnificent two-part sale taking place in Sydney on the 28th of May. Part 1 of the sale will consist of works from the Superannuation Fund of...
Bonhams Australia will hold an intensive series of six auctions over a three day period in Sydney between the 27th of May and the 29th of May which include a large and varied range of fine art, jewellery and antiques.The first sale will take place on the 27th...
During the Middle Ages, books of hours were more popular than any other text, even the Bible. These intricately illustrated devotional texts began to appear around 1250 and contained a series of psalms meant to be read at eight specific hours of the day,...
On Sunday 20 May at the Sydney InterContinental hotel, Mossgreen Auctions will sell an extraordinary gathering of European and Australian antiques, art and works of art at what the auction house has described as “one of the biggest and most spectacular...
