Share:November 12th, 2008 – 2:51 pm ICT by IANS New Delhi/London, Nov 12 (IANS) Leading international auction house Sotheby’s has kicked off its winter carnival sale of art, books, jewellery and antiquities Wednesday with a rich Indian spread. The winter show-cum-sale will be spread over November and December. The auction house is offering a rare […]
Share:Nov. 12, 2008 $125 MILLION AT SOTHEBY’S CONTEMPORARY Sotheby’s New York sale of contemporary art on the evening of Nov. 11, 2008, totaled $125,131,500 (including premium), with 43 of 63 lots selling, or 68 percent. The total presale estimate was $203 million-$280 million. A third of the lots failed to sell, and most of the […]
Share:Sales at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art auction totaled $113.6 million, well under the auction house’s estimate of $227 million to $327 million. Miriam Kreinin Souccar It was another disappointing night for the art world, as sales at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art auction came in far below estimates, capping off a dismal fall season […]
Share:New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Indian art will be the highlight of one of Europe’s best-known contemporary art fairs – ARCO Madrid 2009, which will be held in February 2009 and showcase the works of stalwarts like Subodh Gupta, M.F. Husain and Tyeb Mehta.The 28-year-old fair’s special section Panorama, which features art from guest nations, […]
Share: BOSTON, MA – The textile trade between Great Britain and India flourished in the 17th century, and the influence of India and Southeast Asia upon British interior design could be found in a wide range of household objects, from soft goods such as bed hangings and wall coverings, to ceramics, and decorative screens. While […]
Share:By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) – Down a quiet Hong Kong lane beside the century-old masonry of a colonial-era prison, the 10 Chancery Lane Gallery is abuzz as staff hang bright, bold canvasses and hand-painted photos by three female Indian artists. The past few years have been golden for hundreds of such modish art […]
Share:By Christopher MichaudNEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Impressionist and modern art stumbled again on Thursday when Christie’s $147 million auction fell well short of estimates, most of which were set before the crisis gripping world financial markets.Seeking to put a positive spin on the result, Christie’s honorary chairman Christopher Burge noted that its “$200 […]
Share:Auctioneers feel the chill as sluggish sales and lower prices signal end of a boomBy Arifa Akbar, Arts CorrespondentFriday, 7 November 2008 APFillette sur un Banc, by Edouard Manet, which failed to sell at Christie’s on Wednesday For so long, the booming art market had appeared impervious to the dipping fortunes of the global economy. […]
Share:Source: TNN MUMBAI: The victims of the flood in Bihar in August have found good Samaritans in 31 artists from across the country. From Atul and Anju Dodiya and Jitish Kallat to T V Santhosh and Mithu Sen, artists have donated one work each to an auction organised by Saffron Art, artist couple Subodh Gupta […]
