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Christie’s sales of Post War art in London on the 6th and 7th of February made a total of $10.5 million (€12 million) and saw Mark Rothko’s painting No. 15 by become the highest seller of the two days, raising $2.35 million (€2.67 million). Works by Francis Bacon also did well with three paintings by the artist ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Bacon’s Portrait of Man with Glasses IV |
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Arco, the most important Spanish international contemporary art fair, opens to the public from the 14th to the 19th of February in the renovated pavilions of the Juan Carlos I exhibition centre in Madrid. In its twenty first edition, this year Arco will host 260 galleries from 33 different countries. A very rich range ...
(Elena Balzani)
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| Logo of the Arco 2002 fair |
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The annual “Dogs in Art” auction held by Doyle, New York in collaboration with Bonhams, London will be held at the William Doyle Galleries in New York on Tuesday the 12th of February 2002, with 300 paintings, drawings and watercolours, prints, sculptures and related dog ephemera ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Phillip Eustace Stretton’s Sheltering from the rain |
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Sotheby's.com and eBay Inc. have joined forces to create the largest on-line art buying service. The new site (which is to be launched at an unspecified date some time in 2002) will replace the separate on-line auctions on Sothebys.com and eBay Premier. Yet, despite Sothebys.com selling a seemingly impressive on-line ...
(Andrew Moore)
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From the 6th of February to the 8th of February, the contemporary art collectors’ attention will be on London, where Christie’s and Sotheby’s contend the market for the latest trends. The first session of the Contemporary Art sale held by Christie’s on the evening of the 6th of February totalled $3,164,303 ...
(Elena Balzani)
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| Gerhard Richter, Mailand: Dom |
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Christie’s, London held their evening sale of Impressionist and Modernist paintings on the 4th of February (consisting of the auction house’s top selection of works – as opposed to their second part sale, the following day, which featured works with lower estimates) making $58.3 million (€62.2 million) with ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Chaïm Soutine’s Paysage de Cagnes |
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Among the top lots featured in the sale devoted to Post-War art that Christie’s London will hold in two sessions on the 6th (7 p.m.) and the 7th of February (2 p.m.) are No. 15 by Mark Rothko and three paintings by Francis Bacon (Man in Blue VII, Head, Portrait of Man with Glasses IV) ...
(Elena Balzani)
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The Palm Beach International Art and Antique Fair opened on the 31st of January and will run until the 10th of February with 75 dealers bringing their wares. The show is doing its best to emulate Maastricht and among the prestige dealers on show are ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Logo of The Palm Beach International Art and Antique Fair |
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Record sales for the Austrian auction house Dorotheum that closed 2001 with overall revenues of € 68.3 million ($ 59 million), a result never before achieved in the auction house’s history. According to management, joining the International Auctioneers was a crucial factor ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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A charity known as the St Francis of Assisi Foundation (based in the UK) is offering up for auction three paintings estimated to sell for $ 11.3 million (€ 13 million). The paintings by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Maurice de Vlaminck, donated to The St Francis of Assisi Foundation by an unnamed ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Giotto, St Francis giving his mantle to a poor man |
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