Yearly Archives: 2009

Christie’s announced the auction Magnificent Tiffany featuring Property from the Gluck Collection will be held as part of its 20th-Century Decorative Art & Design sales on December 8, 2009. On February 17, 1979, Christie’s held the landmark sale Magnificent Tiffany Featuring The [Read More]

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, a major exhibition highlighting the variety and strength of American artistic achievement during an epochal century and a half, from the colonial era through the period [Read More]

Seasoned collectors and new bidders from across the United States and around the globe vied for Modern, Contemporary and Latin American works of art at Bonhams & Butterfields on November 17, 2009 in Los Angeles. Simulcast to the firm’s San Francisco auction [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields’ Made in California auction on November 17, 2009 did especially well, signaling that the market for California art remains strong. Regardless of the auction’s regional theme, telephone bidders from around the globe vied for works by the golden state’s [Read More]

Ravenel is delighted to announce that our Autumn Auction of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art will take place in the Fubon Center in Taipei on Sunday, 6th December 2009. With recent auction results in Hong Kong pointing to a recovery in the [Read More]

Maryhill Museum of Art today announced that attendance for the 2009 season increased 17% over 2008, with nearly 46,000 visitors coming through the door between March 15 and November 15. The American Association of Museums says that anecdotal evidence points to an [Read More]

Judging by the substantial prices reached in recent sales, the print market is now heading right back to where it was eighteen months ago,’ claims Alexander Hayter, Bloomsbury Auctions’ Head of Modern and Contemporary Prints. Followers of this highly successful department have [Read More]

Bonhams London 20th Century British Art sale showed that investment in home-grown talent has never been stronger. The impressive array of paintings and sculptures, including The Art of Newlyn and St Ives collection, achieved some dazzling results with 92% sold by value. [Read More]

More than 100 exquisite examples of Lalique from a half dozen private collections – one of the largest public offerings of Lalique in New York City in years – will headline Heritage Auctions’ 20th Century Design Auction at 104 East 25th Street, [Read More]

The Photographs sale at Bloomsbury Auctions on 10th November achieved some strong prices. The saleroom was packed and the viewing days had been busy. Elliot Erwitt (b.1928) New York City, Coney Island, 1974 Gelatin silver print, printed later, signed lower right margin [Read More]

Sotheby’s London announced the sale of three highly important pieces from the collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey which will represent the highlights of both the Old Master Sculpture and the Important Furniture, Silver & Ceramics sales on Tuesday, [Read More]

Christie’s present a superb array of Victorian & British Impressionist Art Including Drawings & Watercolours to the international market on Wednesday 16 December 2009. The sale is led by Eve, a magnificent and monumental painting by Solomon J. Solomon, R.A., P.R.B.A. (1860-1927), [Read More]

Sotheby’s February sale of 49 works from the so-called “Zero Art” movement from the private collection of Gerhard and Anna Lenz are expected to fetch more than 12 million pounds ($20.2 million) and will form part of the auctioneer’s London contemporary art [Read More]

South Australian artist Jungle Phillips is having his first solo exhibition in NSW at Artereal Gallery, 747 Darling Street, Rozelle, NSW, Australia from Dec 2-19. The exhibition will be opened by Professor Colin Rhodes, Dean of Sydney College of The Arts, during [Read More]