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24
Jan
Sotheby’s, the world’s largest publicly traded auction house, fell to a 16-month low in New York on worries that a recession may drag down art prices.
Sotheby’s now lags behind the Standard & Poor’s 500 index after enriching investors…
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24
Jan
What happens when Sigmund Freud’s grandson gets a paintbrush or an etching plate in his hands? Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings at the Museum of Modern Art, offers you a chance to see for yourself. In his first solo show at MoMA, Freud provides a new perspective into his portfolio, not apparent in his exhibition [...]
23
Jan
An ornately carved crystal jug auctioned off in the U.K. as a 19th century French claret jug may in fact be a rare 11th century Islamic artifact.
The jug, estimated to be worth about $400 by Lawrences Auctioneers in southwest Britain, sold last Thursday for $440,000, more than 1,000 times its list price…
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23
Jan
The four major international auction houses have all confirmed record sales for 2007.
The Rothschild Faberge Egg
The Rothschild Fabergé egg sold to the Russian National Museum for £8.9 million
Christie’s, the dominant saleroom over the previous two years, barely clung onto its lead with $6.3 billion (£3.1 billion) of sales against Sotheby’s $6.2 billion (up 51 per [...]
23
Jan
The poster for the Highlands’ first comic expo, Hi-Ex The influence of Scottish writers and artists on some of the best known comic book characters in the world will be examined at a new convention.
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Tags: artists, UK
23
Jan
It’s not that I give a hoot about who’s on top—Sotheby’s or Christie’s. But what activates the needle of my sensitive journalistic spin-monitor are Christie’s representations about its sales leadership and superior profitability—claims that are, respectively, exaggerated and unsubstantiated.
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Tags: Christies, sale, Sotheby’s
23
Jan
Archeologists and art experts are concerned about a wave of forgeries that have appeared on the art market. The fakes are meeting the growing demand for collectable art from the global jet set, but even the musuems are being fooled.
The Flora in Berlin’s Bode Musuem. A da Vinci masterpiece or 19th century fake?
The packed auction [...]
19
Jan
A sketchbook believed to have been Vincent van Gogh’s containing portraits similar to those in his most famous works has been found in Greece, its owner said on Wednesday.
Taken by a Greek resistance fighter from a Nazi train, the sketchbook was discovered in storage boxes by his daughter, who is seeking to…
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19
Jan
News in the US suggests a potential reccession, however, this article in the Financial Times suggests that the art market is roaring along:
Sotheby’s and Christie’s, the two main art auction houses, together sold a record $12.5bn in artworks last year, a rise of more than 40 per cent as the art market showed no sign [...]
19
Jan
Visitors to Louis Tussauds House of Wax are unlikely to forget the experience - no matter how hard they try.
For the museum in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, has garnered a unique reputation for creating the worst waxworks in Britain, if not the world.
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The disembodied heads will be going under the hammer on February 12 with a [...]