Written by Silvia Bosi July 22 2008
Last 8th July Christie’s auctioned among its Old Masters some recovered treasures, whose traces had gone lost. Besides the rediscovery of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s masterpiece “La surprise”, sold for 12,361,250 pounds, 3 drawings by Goya have re-emerged, after 131 years of not knowing anything about them.
At first, it was believed that the three recovered drawings by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) could have fetched a profit equal to 2 million pounds, then they were sold individually and totalled a much higher amount, the same that happened for Watteau’s painting.
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Category: Art Market · News · Newsletter
Written by Elena Lanzanova May 30 2008
The ‘Ancient Paintings and Drawings’ exhibition held on 28th Nay 2008 at Christie’s auction house Milan, totaled 3.756.239 euros, with 87% of sales. For the first time, unpublished work by Giacomo Ceruti, also known as Pitocchetto, was presented.
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Category: Art Market · Italian Art Market · Work of the Week
Written by Elena Lanzanova May 28 2008
translated by Giorgina Arcuri
On 26th May,
Christie’s Milan held a unique event for Italian collectors who are passionate about modern and contemporary art.
Indeed, at Palazzo Clerici the public could attend the auctioning of works executed by artists that have somehow marked the history of Italian 20th-century art:
Agostino Bonalumi,
Mario Sironi,
Giuseppe Capogrossi,
Renato Guttuso and many more.
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Category: Art Market
Written by Elena Lanzanova May 26 2008
translated by Giorgina Arcuri
Only few days are left until the auction of Modern and Contemporary Art that will be held at
Christie’s Milan. For the 26th May the Italian public, but not only, is getting ready for this extraordinary sale that will have as protagonists the most famous names of Italian 20th century art, such as
Mario Schifano,
Giuseppe Capogrossi,
Enzo Cucchi,
Tano Festa,
Renato Guttuso, but also more international figures, including
Tom Wesselmann,
Hans Hartung and
Victor Vasarely.
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Category: Art Market
Written by Elena Lanzanova May 22 2008
translated by Giorgina Arcuri
On 15th May “Photographs” was held at
Christie’s London, a great occasion for collectors of the category who are passionate about works by the most famous names in the history of photography, but also more contemporary artistic figures.
An interesting sale that, despite not achieving a great stir, presented 114 lots fetching 1,402,525 pounds with a 72% sale percentage.
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Category: Art Market
Written by Ilaria Scarinci May 20 2008
The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale at
Christie’s New York had already been anticipated as one of the most important sales of this period. So it was and even more than expected. The evening totalled 33,641,000 dollars, the second highest total ever realized in auction history for the category with 95% of the lots sold.
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Category: Art Market
Written by Ilaria Scarinci May 19 2008
The Contemporary Art Evening Sale, which took place on 14th May at Sotheby’s New York, was a record auction from every point of view. Firstly, for its turnover: 362,037,000 dollars, well above the best estimates which expected the auction to realize between 288.1 million and 354.7 million dollars. This is the second best result ever achieved in the world for a contemporary art auction and the most important sale in the history of Sotheby’s. 73 lots of the 83 presented were sold and represented 86.8% of the works by value.
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Category: Art Market
Written by Ilaria Scarinci May 14 2008
The first
New York session dedicated to impressionists left Christe’s with a turnover of 277,276,000 dollars. Two new important records were broken for Monet and Rodin, however many of their paintings remained unsold.
The 6th May auction brought about some confirmations, but also gave rise to creeping fears that have been circulating on the art market for a while. The top lot of the evening was the splendid painting by Claude Monet “Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil” which went under the hammer for 41,481,000 dollars. With this sale Monet exceeded the previous record at auction, realised last June during the Sotheby’s auction in London; on that occasion, “Ninphéas” from 1904 went under the hammer for 36.7 million dollars.
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Category: Art Market · News · Newsletter
Written by Ilaria Scarinci April 3 2008
Article translated by Amritee Mahabir
The auction that will take place by Sotheby’s in Milan on April 8th is an unmissable date for all art lovers and collectors of contemporary art. The works that will go on show come from a private collection composed of about 150 pieces dating from 1953 onwards.
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