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The Tate Gallery, London will announce this year's Turner Prize winner at a ceremony at the newly relaunched Tate Britain on December 9. Shortlisted artists for this year's $ 28,450 (€ 32,000) controversial prize include Richard Billingham, Martin Creed, Isaac Julien and Mike Nelson. An exhibition of the artists' ...
(James Goulder)
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On the 4th of December new records were set for the Italian artists Mario Sironi and Mario Marini during the IA Modern paintings auctions. The IA is a grouping together of 10 independent auction houses from all around the world who hold their sales of Modern and Impressionist art on the same day, thereby sharing catalogue ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Marino Marini’s Cavaliere |
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The Sotheby’s-Christie’s auction commission rate scandal saw closing arguments round off the month long trial in New York, with the jury now to be sent away to deliberate on the case. Federal prosecutors have charged the two ex-heads of the companies, Alfred Taubman (Sotheby’s) and Anthony Tennant (Christie’s) ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Diana “Dede” Brooks in the dock |
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Christie’s inaugural paintings auction on French ground will be held at its new salesroom at 9, Avenue Matignon, Paris, with a collection of Old Master and 19th century paintings coming from Charles-Otto Zieseniss. Zeiseness was for 30 years, Deputy Chairman of the Fondation Napoleon and sat on the boards of both ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| François Curiel, Chairman, Christie's Europe |
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A record price for a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) was made at Sotheby’s, London on the 29th of November when the artist’s portrait of Omai, an 18th century Tahitian youth, sold for $ 14.6 million (€ 16.5 million), $ 4.3 million (€ 4.8 million) higher than its top-end estimate ...
(Andrew Moore)
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“The unseen Brera” is an initiative of the Milanese Pinacoteca that will bring to the public’s eyes, in a cycle of quarterly exhibitions, works that have not yet found a permanent place in the rooms of the museum. The initiative was inaugurated on the 1st of December with the display in the 19th Century hall ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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| Pelagio Palagi, La partenza di Cristoforo Colombo da Palos |
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The New York International Antiquarian Fine Art Fair opens for the first time to the public at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan on Friday 30th of November. The fair comprises over fifty leading dealers in fine art and antiques from Europe and the United States, including a contingent of 22 dealers from the UK ...
(Luisa Vassallo)
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| Logo of the New York International Antiquarian Fine Art Fair |
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The largest exhibition of artworks owned by HRH Queen Elizabeth II has been announced for display and will open in May 2002 to celebrate her Golden Jubilee, or 50 years on the throne. Opening in London, the new $ 28.1 million (€ 32 million) Queen’s Gallery, the biggest addition to Buckingham Palace for 170 years ...
(Andrew Moore)
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The Manchester Art Gallery has acquired the brass lantern featured in William Holman Hunt's (1827-1910) painting The Light of the World for $ 73,400 (€ 82,930). The UK museum had tried to buy it in November at Bonhams in London but the work sold to an anonymous private collector. Virginia Tandy, the director ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| William Holman Hunt's The Light of the World (detail) |
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A pair of oils by Alessandro Magnasco, depicting Saint Anthony the hermit in prayer in a wood and Saint Paul the hermit in prayer in a wood will be presented at the Old Master Paintings sale at Sotheby’s Milan on the 4th of December. The landscapes that provide the setting for the figures recall the style ...
(Annalisa Rossi)
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| Alessandro Magnasco, Saint Paul the hermit in prayer in a wood |
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