Monthly Archives: November 2009

At Sotheby’s in New York, Andy Warhol’s monumental masterpiece, 200 One Dollar Bills, brought a remarkable $43,762,500, soaring past the pre-sale estimate of $8/12 million. Competition was fierce. Auctioneer Tobias Meyer opened the bidding at $6 million and was immediately met with [Read More]

Sotheby’s sale of 19th-Century, Modern and Contemporary art, to be held in Amsterdam on Tuesday, December 15, 2009, will have at its core a group of works from a celebrated Dutch private collection. Put together over some 30 years with enormous commitment [Read More]

I.M. Chait is to offer more than 400 lots of exceptional Chinese and Japanese art on November 15. The collections are directed at both mid-level collectors and high-level connoisseurs seeking good and realistically priced investments. I.M. Chait’s sale leads with an extensive [Read More]

On Sunday, November 22, the Museum kicks off Thanksgiving week with Families Explore: The Victorian Era. Experience the Victorian period through storytelling, crafts and other kid-friendly activities. Decorate a Victorian-inspired personal keepsake box and make a beaded ring. Try on Victorian clothing [Read More]

A major exhibition of over 60 works by David Hockney from national and international museum collections will open Nottingham Contemporary, one of the most interesting new spaces for art in the UK. Designed by leading architects Caruso St John, the public opening [Read More]

Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale totaled $74,151,500/£44,669,578/€49,766,107. Works by artists Peter Doig, Jeff Koons, and Joan Mitchell commanded the top prices. In addition, new world record prices were set for works on paper by Philip Guston, and Brice Marden and [Read More]

Sotheby’s Amsterdam will, going forward, hold two sales of Old Master Paintings every year (one in May and the second in December) and the first of these new-format sales will be held on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 2p.m. This sale will [Read More]

California’s oldest and largest auctioneer, Bonhams & Butterfields, will offer contemporary art from the Golden State during the firm’s Made in California sale on November 17, 2009. Though regional in theme, artwork by internationally known artists such as John Altoon, Robert Arneson, [Read More]

A portrait of David Papillon (1691-1762), standing full-length, holding a bow and quiver, a spaniel at his side, painted by John Baptist Closterman (1660-1713) brings a certain ghoulishness to Bonhams sale of Old Master paintings on December 9 in New Bond St. [Read More]

The Jan Krugier Gallery is pleased to present Stillness, an exhibition on view from November 6 through December 18, 2009. This exhibition explores dynamic and static notions of stillness, important to such artistic movements as pittura metafisica and Surrealism, but will also [Read More]

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce the appointment of Peter Buchan as Chairman of the Board. Following in the footsteps of Sir Ian Wrigglesworth who held the position for four years, Peter Buchan was appointed Chairman with unanimous support [Read More]

Picturing New York comprises 145 masterworks from the photographic collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, covering the period from the 1880s to the present day. It celebrates the tradition of photographing New York, a tradition that frames and [Read More]

Sotheby’s Greek sale in London realized £3,925,175 (€4,380,882). Four new auction records were established (for works by Spyros Vassiliou, Georgios Zongolopoulos, Constantin Xenakis, and Konstantino Byzantios), with almost 37% of the works sold achieving prices in excess of high estimate. Constantine Frangos, [Read More]

Gene Shapiro Auctions LLC. has announced an Auction of Important Russian and American art to be held in New York on November 22nd, 2009, starting at 12:00 PM EST. The auction will be held at the Metropolitan Pavilion, located at 123 West [Read More]