Art & Collectibles
A Warhol Painting Is the Star of Christie’s New York Auction
A Warhol Painting Is the Star of Christie’s New York Auction After the historic $495-M sale of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s, there was considerable curiosity surrounding Phillips’s far more modest one Thursday evening. Looks like the 3rd contemporary art auction of the week do well, considering that at Christie’s Wednesday night, paintings by [...]
May Art Auctions in Expect $1.3-B in Sales
May Art Auctions in Expect $1.3-B in Sales ‘Four Marilyns’ Christie’s, Sotheby’s NYSE:BID and Phillips are holding their semi-annual sales of Impressionist, modern, postwar and contemporary art this week and next. There is nothing similar to Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” which fetched $120-M at Sotheby’s last May, 11 lots are expected to bring $20-M or [...]
Bottega Veneta Sponsors Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition
Bottega Veneta Sponsors Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition Bottega Veneta Shanghai Concept Store Exhibition enhances the brand’s connection its local market. In a marketing strategy that combines fashion with art, Italian luxury brand recently opened an exhibition of work by Chinese emerging artists and photographers in the Shanghai Bund concept store, the project allows the company [...]
France’s Pinault Family Returns to China $40-M Disputed Bronzes
France’s Pinault Family Returns to China $40-M Disputed Bronzes French billionaire Francois Pinault’s family has donated to the Chinese nation 2 bronze animal heads that were the subject of a $40-M disputed sale at Christie’s International in Y 2009. The 18th-century dynasty bronze rabbit and rat heads had been part of the decoration of a [...]
Picasso La Reve: Investing in Art
You Cannot Overpay for Trophy Assets Over the past 50 yrs I learned that if there is a Golden Rule in collection to collecting watches, classic cars or anything of personal relevance and value for that matter, that Rule is one can never pay too much for a Trophy Asset. Because in collecting is often [...]
Art Basel Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s Rich & Expansive Art Culture To Attract Global Spotlight At Inaugural Art Basel Hong Kong Art Epicenter of Asia to Welcome Over 60,000 Key Stakeholders at Premier International Art Show(May 23-26, 2013) As the third-largest art auction center in the world, Hong Kong continues to garner international acclaim as the art mecca of [...]
Tretchikoff’s Chinese Girl, the most copied picture in the world Hammers for GBP 1-M at Bonhams
Tretchikoff’s Chinese Girl, the most copied picture in the world Hammers for GBP 1-M at Bonhams ‘Chinese Girl’ is the most iconic work of Vladimir Tretchikoff, a Russian émigré who settled in South Africa, was sold last Wednesday day at Bonhams South African art sale in London. Following worldwide interest in the sale the painting [...]
FBI, We Know Who Robbed the Gardner Museum
FBI, We Know Who Robbed the Gardner Museum US FBI officials announced Monday that they know who committed one of the biggest art heists in history, but they still need the public’s help to locate the 13 missing pieces of art. “The FBI believes with a high degree of confidence in the years after the [...]
Impressionist Drawings at the Frick, Works by Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, and other French Masters
Impressionist Drawings at the Frick, Works by Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, and other French Masters “Impressionism” in Western art calls to mind a handful of the period’s world-famous oil paintings like, Monet’s delicious plein air landscapes at Giverny or Seurat’s pointillist masterpieces, there are a handful of curators are seeking to broaden its definition. Jay A. Clarke [...]
Storyboard Graphic Novels Turns Screenplays Into Graphic Novels
Fast-Growing Company Turns Screenplays Into Graphic Novels Storyboard Graphic Novels Takes Advantage of Major Hollywood Trend When Stephen Stern and his business partner, Joseph Giovannetti , launched Storyboard Graphic Novels in 2011, they knew they were offering a unique service to the Hollywood community—but they had no idea how quickly it would catch on. Within [...]
Man Finds Arthur Pinajian Artwork Appraised At $30-M
Garage Find: Bellport NY Man Finds Arthur Pinajian Artwork Appraised At $30-M Works by an obscure Armenian-American abstract impressionist discovered in a Long Island, NY garage have been appraised at $30-M. Thomas Schultz discovered thousands of paintings, drawings and journals by Arthur Pinajian after he bought a cottage in Bellport in Y 2007. “The smallest [...]
The Chinese Art Market In 2013
The Chinese Art Market In 2013 BID Y 2012 was a complex and challenging year for major international auction houses and domestic Chinese art auction houses in Hong Kong and Mainland China, coming off a strong Y 2011 during which the Chinese art market grew to CNY 211-B (US$33.8-B). Now, with leading collectors holding their [...]
The Isleworth Mona Lisa Version Confirmed True
The Isleworth Mona Lisa Version Confirmed True New scientific findings prove that Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci did paint an earlier and much younger version of his master-piece Mona Lisa, said Swiss-based art experts. Art experts claimed that Isleworth Mona Lisa, unearthed last year, which shows a significantly younger subject, may be several years older [...]
Swarovski Set Design At The Oscars
Swarovski is honored to be the key creative ingredient on the world’s most revered stage for the sixth year at the Oscars®. This year, Tony Award-winning Production Designer Derek McLane will add a fresh perspective to the set of the Dolby Theater, incorporating over 100,000 Swarovski crystals into the Oscar’s® stage design and theater decor. [...]
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