Auction Previews
SALE: Magnificent JewelryLOCATION: Sotheby's and Christie's GenevaDATE: May 14-15ABOUT: For the jewelry enthusiast out there, Geneva is the place to be next week. Sotheby's will offer the Beau Sancy, a giant 34.98-carat, modified pear double rose cut diamond that boasts a 400-year royal provenance and is expected to fetch CHF 1.85-3.65...
SALE: Post-War and Contemporary Evening SalesLOCATION: New YorkDATE: May 8-10ABOUT: Up first in this marathon week of contemporary evening sales is Christie's, which features a solid group of works by blue-chip artists. At the top of the estimates is Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow," an example of the artist's signature large-scale...
SALE: Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie's and Sotheby'sLOCATION: New YorkDATE: May 1-3ABOUT: Gigabytes of server space have already been dedicated to writing about the two highest-valued works of art being sold next week, Cezanne's watercolor study for "Card Players" on Tuesday (est. $15-20 million) at Christie's and the much-...
Next week's sale of a pastel version of Edvard Munch's truly iconic work "The Scream" — the only one of the four Munch did to survive in private hands — at Sotheby's in New York marks what will likely be one of the most important auction moments of the decade. "For 25 years I have followed the auction market, I have never seen...
SALE: An Eye For Opulence — Art of the Ottoman EmpireLOCATION: Sotheby's LondonDATE: April 24, 2pmABOUT: In a three-day flurry of sales that rival New York Asia Week in breadth, London is getting geared up for a flood of Islamic and Turkish art next week. Sotheby's is selling a collection made up exclusively of work from the Ottoman...
SALE: Magnificent JewelsLOCATION: Christie's and Sotheby's New YorkDATE: April 17-18ABOUT: The most exciting New York jewelry auctions of the spring — on the heels of the enormously successful Elizabeth Taylor sale last December — are next week. Both Christie's and Sotheby's will be trotting out their most coveted jewels, many worth more...
The last few days have brought an onslaught of announcements from the big auctions houses about their May sales, which are already looking to be some of the all-time biggest art auctions. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of material will be offered during the Impressionist and modern or post-war and contemporary art auctions in the...
SALE: Titanic Memorabilia in New YorkLOCATION: Guernsey's and Bonhams, New YorkDATE: April 11-15ABOUT: There are two very different auctions this week having to do with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. At Guernsey's you can buy the whole of the memorabilia salvaged from the wreck site, as well as future salvaging...
SALE: Photographs in New YorkLOCATION: Sotheby's, Christie's, Phillips New YorkDATE: April 3-5ABOUT: The black-and-white image is in the spotlight this week, as New York's major auction houses all hold big photograph sales. The big names on top of everyone's catalogue estimates include Irving Penn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ansel Adams, and...
SALE: Urban Art at BonhamsDATE: March 29, 6pmLOCATION: LondonABOUT: While Bonhams's Urban Art sale isn't the kind of contemporary art auction with eight-figure estimates, it is still likely to be a hot category. The sale is estimated to bring in £460,000-680,000 ($730,000-1.1 million), with seventeen works by semi-anonymous British...
