With the art crowd invading London this week, the auction houses have stepped up to the mark with auctions of modern and contemporary art. While Christie’s has stellar works by David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Keith Haring, Anish Kapoor, Thomas Schutte and others, with a focus on Italian art alongside British, it also has more affordable […]
International collectors are flooding into London, despite the snow and cold, for the auctions of impressionist, modern and contemporary art, with work ranging from Monet and Rodin to Grayson Perry and Banksy, including a preview of the Peggy and David Rockefeller Collection to be auctioned for charity later in the year at Christie’s in New […]
He bought well, this European architect-collector whose name we do not know, but who has several works from his collection on show at Christie’s in their Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London, including Leger, Picasso, De Chirico and Morandi. Look carefully; can you tell the architectural links in the paintings through geometry, colour, […]
Moving from Christie Mayfair’s exhibition “About the Line” to Christie’s King Street, the preview for this week’s auction on Middle Eastern Modern and Contemporary Sale, reinforces artistry with lines in Mehdi Moutashar’s grid “Zone B 1-8″, Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi’s graphic “Sari Fe Azar” and Monir Farmanfarmaian’s “Heartbeat”. Overall the works show how Middle Eastern art has […]
This is a week for Far Eastern collectors in London, Christies’ are holding an auction of Chinese art from the 17th century onwards on display in their two locations at South Kensington and King Street, with a parallel “on-line” auction running through the month, which seems to be a trend for the future to reach collectors […]
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