Archive for the ‘Christies’ Category

Impressionist ‘jewel’ expected to break 18.5 million record

A masterpiece by Claude Monet, said to be one of the greatest Impressionist pictures left in private hands, is expected [...]

Hundred-carat colourless diamond auctioned

A record-breaking diamond expected to fetch £3 million at auction is to go under the hammer later this year. Enormous [...]

No signs of City crisis as Bacon sells for 26m

“When I die, my paintings won’t be worth anything, I’ll be forgotten,” Francis Bacon once told a friend. How wrong [...]

Art market holds steady as stocks and property wobble

It’s the most expensive post-war work of art ever to be sold in Europe – £26.3m with commission. Stocks and [...]

Paintings go for £105m at auction

LONDON A painting by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Akte im Freien (Drei badende Frauen), fetched £3 million at auction – a record [...]