Football and Contemporary Art show held in Miami
Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is to host The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, an exhibition exploring the link between the two. The show (on until September 2) consists […]
By Tom Meyrick
2018-07-09
Christie’s Old Master sale hits $41.2 million in London
Christie’s Old Master sale pulled in an impressive £31.1m ($41.2m) in London on July 5. Ludovico Caracci’s Portrait of Carlo Alberto Rati Opizzoni was the star lot, achieving £5m ($6.6m). […]
By Tom Meyrick
2018-07-08
1815 panorama of London makes $330,500 at auction
An 1815 panorama of London sold for £250,000 ($330,375) in Sotheby’s July 4 Old Master & British Works on Paper sale. The full title of the enormous 6m painting is […]
By Tom Meyrick
2018-07-05
Michael Jackson portrait exhibition on in London until October
The National Portrait Gallery in London will host an exhibition of work inspired by the late “King of Pop”, Michael Jackson. Jackson was among the most influential performers of all […]
By Tom Meyrick
2018-06-28
Lucian Freud nude portrait reaches $26 million in London auction
Lucian Freud’s acclaimed nude portraits have become hugely sought after over the past couple of years. The trend was bolstered earlier this week when Nude on a White Cover (2002-2003), […]
By Tom Meyrick
2018-06-27
Victoria Beckham’s old master exhibition hosted in London
Sotheby’s will collaborate with fashion designer and former pop star Victoria Beckham on an intriguing exhibition of old master portraits in London. The 16 works, including canvases by Peter Paul […]
By Tom Meyrick
2018-06-26
Frank Dunphy’s Damien Hirst auction will be held at Sotheby’s
Damien Hirst’s former business manager Frank Dunphy is to auction off 200 pieces from his extensive art collection in a pair of sales at Sotheby’s. Rare works from Hirst and […]
By Tom Meyrick
2018-06-22
Copley’s O’Brien decoy auction will star $600,000 dovetailed goose
The Earnest-Gregory Dovetailed Goose – one of the most celebrated duck decoys in history – will sell at Copley Fine Art Auctions next month. It is the highlight of the third […]
By Dan Wade
2018-06-19
Frida Kahlo V&A exhibition to celebrate her life in fashion
A new exhibition at the V&A Museum in London will showcase clothing and personal possessions belonging to the celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Titled Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up (on […]
By Tom Meyrick
2018-06-18
Andy Warhol cryptocurrency auction to take place in London
A print by Andy Warhol is to become the most valuable work of art ever sold to buyers using cryptocurrencies. The work, titled 14 Small Electric Chairs, is to be […]
By Tom Meyrick
2018-06-09
Suprematist Kazimir Malevich’s correspondence to sell
A collection of correspondence and writings connected with Russian suprematist artist Kazimir Malevich will auction at Bonhams. The 340-piece collection forms part of the house’s sale of fine books and […]
By Tom Meyrick
2018-06-06
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition to run until August 19
London’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is curated this year by iconoclastic British artist Grayson Perry. The annual open show celebrates artists of all stripes, from venerable members of the Academy to […]
By Tom Meyrick
Early Van Gogh landscape painting auctions for $8.2 million
Artcurial has auctioned an early landscape painting by Vincent van Gogh for $8.2m. Raccommodeuses de filets dans les dunes (Fishing Net Menders in the Dunes) dates to 1882, when Van Gogh […]
By Tom Meyrick
2018-06-05
Matisse’s Mary Hutchinson drawing could sell for $4 million
A drawing of the writer and socialite Mary Hutchinson by Henri Matisse will sell with an estimate of £2m-3m ($2.6m-4m) at Sotheby’s on June 19. Hutchinson was a member of […]
By Tom Meyrick
2018-06-04
Picassos’s Femme dans un Fauteuil to sell on June 20
Pablo Picasso’s Femme dans un fauteuil (1942), a portrait of his muse Dora Maar, will cross the block at Christie’s London on June 20. There’s no estimate on the work, […]
