Share:Source:- Saibal Dasgupta BEIJING: The Chinese foreign ministry on Tuesday joined forces with a group of Chinese lawyers, who have been trying to stop Christie’s from auctioning two bronze statues looted from Beijing 150 years back. The lawyers have been overruled by a Paris court, but the Chinese government is now trying to make it […]
Share:Source :- Time.com The Saint Laurent-Berge auction at the Grand Palais in Paris Pulling in record prices for seven artists, the much-anticipated auction of Yves Saint Laurent’s art collection got off to a flying start on Day One’s sale of Impressionist and modern art. The $266 million tallied on Monday — a record auction for […]
Share: Source – Artdaily.org LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place at Christie’s this evening and realized $91,210,543. The top price of the evening was paid for Claude Monet’s Dans la Prairie, 1876, which was exhibited at the seminal third Impressionist Exhibition in 1877 and which sold at this evening sale for […]
Share:Georgina Adam 19.1.09 Issue 198 The general economy and also the art economy is clearly headed for some choppy waters…” This is what mega-dealer Larry Gagosian told his staff in a tough-talking, if ungrammatical, memo published last November in Flash Art, as the global financial meltdown continued to panic investors, the US recession was officially […]
Share:By Souren Melikian Published: January 9, 2009 LONDON: A new order is emerging in the art market and, in startling contrast to the broader economy, this calls for a celebration. That art would follow a separate course in the current global crisis was bound to happen because a fundamental characteristic singles it out among all […]
Share:By Lindsay Pollock / The Art Newspaper Institutions are increasingly likely to loan works of art to the most powerful private galleries This past autumn season in New York City one could admire numerous works of art from major institutions without setting foot inside a museum. Instead, a 1930 Picasso bather from the Museum of […]
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:Christie’s auction house in London hopes to raise more than 57 million pounds at an upcoming auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art auction. As banks go bust and the world’s stock markets reel, Christie’s unveiled the works that are up for grabs. The auctioneer hails the collection as the most valuable and comprehensive autumn sale […]
