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Sotheby's Facebook Wall - Join our specialist Priyanka Mathew & other leading art world figures, including...
Join our specialist Priyanka Mathew & other leading art world figures, including Jan Dalley and Tim Marlow, on Saturday at 2:30pm at The India Art Fair Speakers’ Forum for ‘Decoding the Indian Art Market: A Look at the Driving Factors Behind Collecting Art.’ The panel will analyze the factors that influence the acquisition of art both in the primary market through the galleries as well as via the auction market, and will consider the appetite of Indian collectors for art from beyond the subcontinent. Read more about the fair here:
India Art Fair
www.indiaartfair.in - Yesterday’s sale of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture at Sotheby’s New...
Yesterday’s sale of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture at Sotheby’s New York brought a total of $62.1 million, and established new auction records for Fra Bartolommeo, Simone Martini, and Charles-Antoine Coypel. The sale was also highlighted by five remarkable works that achieved prices over $4 million – view an album of them here:
Results: Old Master Paintings & Sculpture, 26 January 2012
Five works achieved prices over $4 million in the Old Master Paintings & Sculpture sale, held in New York on 26 January 2012. - A spectacular selection of highlights from our February London Contemporary Art...
A spectacular selection of highlights from our February London Contemporary Art sales are on view today and tomorrow in Doha at Katara Art Center. Included in the exhibition is Gerhard Richter’s ‘Abstraktes Bild (Rot)’ from 1991, as well as works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucian Freud, Takashi Murakami, Cindy Sherman and more.
Gerhard Richter
'Abstraktes Bild (Rot)'
Oil on canvas
1991
200 by 140 cm.
Estimate £2.5/3.5 million
Sotheby’s London
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
15 February 2012
 - ‘Master Drawings Week’ opened in galleries across New York this weekend, includi...
‘Master Drawings Week’ opened in galleries across New York this weekend, including the exhibition for our Old Master Drawings sale. The auction will feature a spectacular group of 18th-century French drawings from a distinguished European Collection, including works by iconic artists such as Jean-Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher. View a gallery of highlights here:
Old Master Drawings, 25 January 2012
Highlights from the sale of Old Master Drawings, to be held in New York on 25 January 2012. - Join Sotheby’s Chairman George Wachter and specialist Christopher Apostle as the...
Join Sotheby’s Chairman George Wachter and specialist Christopher Apostle as they discuss The Virgin Annunciate, an exceptionally rare panel completed by Italian artist Simone Martini in the early 14th century – the earliest work in this week’s Old Masters auction.
Simone Martini's 'The Virgin Annunciate'
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George Wachter and Christopher Apostle discuss the significance of 'The Virgin Annunciate', an exceptionally rare and early gold ground by Simone Martini. - A beautiful collection of modern illustrated books will be offered by Paris auct...
A beautiful collection of modern illustrated books will be offered by Paris auctioneers Binoche & Giquello, along with Sotheby’s Paris, on 28 March. The sale of Part II of the Library of R. & B.L. will feature books with over 200 illustrations by famed artists including Chagall, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Gris & more; have a look at some of the highlights, on view in our New York galleries through this Thursday.
Highlights from the sale of Part II of the Library of R & B.L.
Highlights from the Paris sale of Part II of the Library of R & B.L. are on view in our New York galleries through Thursday 26 January. - Our Americana Week sales concluded yesterday in New York with a combined total o...
Our Americana Week sales concluded yesterday in New York with a combined total of $17,900,261 – our highest total for this annual week of sales since 2007 – with new auction records set for a high chest of drawers, a single firearm, and a needlework sampler. View a gallery of highlights here:
Highlights from Americana Week sales, January 2012
Highlights from our sale of Important Americana on 20 & 21 January and our sale of Important American Schoolgirl Embroideries: the Landmark Collection of Betty Ring on 22 January.
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On occasion of the Katara Art Center exhibition of the Highlights of the Sotheby’s London Auctions of Contemporary Art, we are organizing art specialists exhibition walk through on the 26th and 27th of January.
Interested artists, art lovers and general public are invited to attend. RSVP is advised, as the number of places is limited for each session.
The education sessions are object based and informal, attendees are encouraged to participate with questions and interaction with the 2 art specialists leading the sessions.- Sotheby’s specialist Christopher Apostle introduces us to two very rare and impo...
Sotheby’s specialist Christopher Apostle introduces us to two very rare and important Italian paintings by Fra Bartolommeo and Bartolomeo Schedoni from the collection of Dodie Rosekrans.
Property from the Estate of Dodie Rosekrans
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Christopher Apostle introduces us to the renowned collector, Dodie Rosekrans, and two of her very rare and important Italian paintings by Fra Bartolommeo and... - The exhibition of ‘The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini’ at The Me...
The exhibition of ‘The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York isn’t the only place to view great Renaissance portraiture this week: the exhibition for Sotheby’s Old Master Drawings auction opens on the 21st in NY, featuring a 15th century portrait most recently attributed to Florentine artist Piero del Pallaiuolo. Interestingly, ‘Portrait of a Young Man’ appears to be a work in its own right, rather than a preparatory study for a painting.
Lot 27
Attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo
Portrait of a Young Man, Head and Shoulders, Wearing a Cap
Pen and brown ink over black chalk;
bears letter in brown ink, lower right corner: X
360 by 228 mm; 14 ¼ by 9 in.
Est. $300/400,000
Sotheby’s New York
Old Master Drawings
25 January 2012
 - Today is the last day to view Joan Miró’s monumental masterpiece 'Peinture' in o...
Today is the last day to view Joan Miró’s monumental masterpiece 'Peinture' in our NY galleries – the work returns to London tomorrow in advance of the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 8 February. 'Peinture' is part of a critically important series that Miró executed in Paris in 1933, which he viewed as a personal breakthrough: in a letter to Matisse, he described the works as ‘a great success that might mark a red letter day in my career’.
 - Sotheby’s Chairman George Wachter examines Lucas Cranach the Elder’s stunning, e...
Sotheby’s Chairman George Wachter examines Lucas Cranach the Elder’s stunning, early portrait of ‘Lucretia’ and the story behind the work’s illustrious subject.
Lucas Cranach the Elder's 'Lucretia'
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George Wachter examines Cranach the Elder's stunning, early portrait of Lucretia and the story behind the illustrious woman. - Colin Gleadell reports in The Telegraph about a group of five drawings by Lucian...
Colin Gleadell reports in The Telegraph about a group of five drawings by Lucian Freud that will be offered in our upcoming Evening Auction of Contemporary Art in London on 15 February. Highlights from this exceptional and encyclopaedic collection, which spans more than four decades, are currently on view in our New York galleries through Thursday.
Lucian Freud drawings to go under the hammer - Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk - An impressive selection of highlights from Sotheby’s upcoming London evening sal...
An impressive selection of highlights from Sotheby’s upcoming London evening sales of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art are on view in our New York galleries from Tuesday through Thursday of this week. Visit us to view works by iconic artists including Miro, Richter, Klimt, Basquiat, Monet and many more:
London Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary highlights in NY
Highlights from the Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Art sales to be held in London in February 2012. These works and more are on view in New York from 17-19 January. - Can you tell your Ming from your Qing? Our London Chinese Works of Art specialis...
Can you tell your Ming from your Qing? Our London Chinese Works of Art specialists, Robert Bradlow, Stephen Loakes & Angela McAteer, are heading to 14 European cities in the next 7 weeks to offer free valuations; they’re hoping to make some exciting discoveries like a Doucai altar garniture which sold in London in May for £2.1 million. Here's their schedule, which starts in Belgium on 19 Jan: http://bit.ly/zzuFBq
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