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19
Jun
Swindon is about to get its taste of “affordable art” as Swindon’s local auctioneers, Kidson-Trigg at Highworth, are holding an unusual auction on Tuesday. This 300 lot picture auction is a dispersal sale of C20th, Traditional, Modern and Contemporary Art from Jarvis Hotels Ltd.
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There is an opportunity to view the sale this Sunday 10am - [...]
19
Jun
Pablo Picasso’s Sylvette has become the most expensive painting ever sold at auction in Australia.
The brightly coloured portrait sold for $6.9 million at an auction in Sydney.
Kensington’s Deutscher-Menzies Gallery had estimated the work would go for between $5 million and $7 million.
The previous record for a work sold at auction in Australia was set last [...]
6
Jun
An 18th-century canvas by the Italian painter Pietro Fabris was the top seller at Sotheby’s Old Master sale Thursday. “Villagers Preparing to Depart for the Festival of the Madonna Dell’Arco” was bought for $722,500, well above the high estimate of $400,000. The 142-lot auction posted overall sales of $8.13 million, a solid but not thrilling [...]
6
Jun
June 5 (Bloomberg) — A high-profile liquidation of English furniture from bankrupt Salander-O’Reilly Galleries LLC remains scheduled for June 7, after an objection to the sale by Lawrence Salander’s father-in-law was rejected by a judge.
The auction at Stair Galleries in Hudson, New York, is the biggest to date from the remains of Salander-O’Reilly. The [...]
30
May
April 19 (Bloomberg) — Nick Walker, an old spray-mate of fellow British street artist Banksy, sold 750,000 pounds ($1.5 million) of paintings and prints this week at the start of his first one-man show in the U.K., the gallery said yesterday.
All but two of 60 original Walker works on offer, many featuring his anarchical alter [...]