Over £80 million was realised by Sotheby’s this week in its different series of sales from the antique to old masters to drawings and works on paper, proving that, white contemporary art often hugs the headlines, there is still a demand for good quality work from previous masters, including Canaletto, Turner, Constable, de Ribera, Velazquez, […]
Many ‘firsts’ are here, including Walt Disney’s first full length film ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’, the first Star Wars film and the first James Bond movie’ ‘Dr No’ captured in posters from the time the films were released. Sotheby’s New Bond Street entrance is closed for several months for a face-lift, so everyone […]
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 […]
Many organisations have them – old honours boards of varnished timber with gold lettering listing former Chairmen, Presidents, Secretaries, Captains and others. At the Bethlam Hospital they have boards for previous Apothecaries, Surgeons and Physicians, names lost in the mists of time, but part of the history and heritage of the mental health hospital. What […]
It’s a week of modern British art in London with Bonham’s, Sotheby’s and Christie’s all having sales of British art, along with Irish art at Bonham’s and Christie’s. Works for sale include many well-known artists from over the last century, some still active, including L.S. Lowry, Eduardo Paolozzi,, David Hockney, Lynn Chadwick, Elizabeth Frink, Terry […]
Paul Fryer’s Black Phoenix is perhaps representative of what those affected by the Grenfell tower fire are hoping for the future – that they can recreate a new life from one of the blackest tragedies to affect London. Tacida Dean’s new work “Lay the dust with Tears” portrays the dust clouds that would have swirled […]
The sedate interiors of Sotheby’s have come alive in a blaze of fun and colour with an invasion of the work of French-American artist Niki de Saint Phaille (1930-2002), called by one critic ‘one of the most significant female and feminist artists of the 20th century’. Humorous, irreverent, colourful, these works bring a breath of […]
An exhibition at Sotheby’s with work from the Bauhaus, the influential modernist school of art and design founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in Germany in 1919 and disbanded in 1933 with many of the leading designers leaving Germany for other countries, in particular the USA. Innovative at its time, just imagine how far German […]
Sotheby’s in London has quite traditional exhibition and auction spaces in New Bond Street. New York is quite a contrast with its modern ten-storey glass building providing a substantial area of flexible exhibition spaces on several floors around a central atrium with escalators, designed by architect Richard Gluckman, who also designed the permanent collection spaces […]
The gallery spaces of Sotheby’s have been transformed in black and red for Valentine’s Day week and the auction today of art on the theme of “erotic passion and desire” with over 100 works over the last 2000 years from Roman statues, to paintings from the Far East, to British nineteenth century cartoons, to neoclassical sculptures, right […]
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