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Larry Gagosian followed up his purchase of Jeff Koon’s New Hoover Convertibles at Phillips on the 12th of November for a mid-estimate $ 376,500 (€ 428,163) with three purchases at Sotheby’s contemporary on the 14th of November. He snapped up works from the Douglas S. Cramer collection for just over $ 7,000,000 ...
(James Goulder)
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| Tom Wesselman, Still life #28 |
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On the 20th of November a collection of modernist Irish paintings will be offered for sale by de Vere’s auction house in Dublin with a total pre-sale value of $ 700,000 (€ 791,440). The collection which includes works by Gerard Dillon, Louis le Brocquy, Jack B. Yeats and Nathaniel Hone, comes from Aer Lingus ...
(Elena Balzani)
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| James Humbert Craig's Coastal Landscape with Figures |
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A new art award, the Walters Prize was launched at the Auckland Art Gallery on the 4th of November. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said she hoped the new $ 50,000 (€ 55,726) prize would foster debate and "conversation" about contemporary New Zealand art. The Walters Prize is named after Gordon Walters ...
(James Goulder)
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The 20th of November sees Finarte auction house, Milan offer its sale of important Old Master paintings, with the top work being Paolo Uccello’s (1397-1475) Saint Monaca with two small boys. Measuring 79 x 35 cm this tempera on panel is one of the few authenticated works by the artist ever to have ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Paolo Uccello, Saint Monaca with two small boys |
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Still life with a red egg by Ardengo Soffici, Penelope by Mario Sironi and Idol and house by Massimo Campigli are among the top lots of the Modern and Contemporary Art auction that will be held in Milan tomorrow, 20th of November 2001. Over 250 works of art will be presented in two parts, with ...
(Elena Balzani)
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| Ardengo Soffici, Still Life with a red egg |
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A painting acquired by the National Gallery of Ireland in 1896 for 20 pounds sterling (in old money), has been confirmed as an original Rembrandt by the Rembrandt Research Project in Amsterdam. The work, formerly ascribed to an anonymous follower, was recently examined by the project’s director, Professor Ernst ...
(Alex Kearney)
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| A bottom smacking painting by Rembrandt |
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At the Rockefeller Center on November the 13th, Christie’s New York offered its Post-War (evening) auction of 56 lots. Of these, 39 found buyers to give the auction house a healthy 70% sold total and raise $ 25.2 million (€ 28.5 million). While flogging 56 lots is not a tall order when the works are of high ...
(Andrew Moore)
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Phillips contemporary on the 12th of November sold 81% of 44 lots for a total of $ 8,300,000 (€ 9,438,622). Top lot was Untitled (Angel),a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Dating from 1982 it sold for $ 710,000 (€ 807,393) to a telephone buyer, well under the $ 900,000-1,200,000 (€ 1,023,457-1,364,609)...
(James Goulder)
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| Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Angel), 1982 |
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Christie’s has announced it is cutting 20 jobs at its second largest US office, in Los Angeles. The cuts, which account for half of the LA workforce are in response to a fall in profits and the current court action against itself and Sotheby’s in New York. The announcement follows 21 redundancies made in October ...
(Andrew Moore)
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| Christie's Los Angeles office in Beverly Hills |
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The Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize is one of the most celebrated awards in the world of contemporary photography. Last year’s winner Boris Mikhailov created a stir with his pictures of Russians on the fringe of society and this year the British media has focused on American finalist Roger Ballen ...
(James Goulder)
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| Thomas Ruff, Nudes ree07, 2000 |
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