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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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. Read full story at Arts Journal .com
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 … Read more
Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — A Francis Bacon painting is estimated to fetch at least 25 million pounds ($49 million) in a Feb. 6 sale, the most expensive artwork ever offered at a London auction, Christie’s International said. The artist’s “Triptych 1974-77” of figures on a beach is being sold… Read full story