While the undisputed star of Sotheby’s masters painting & sculpture auction in January 2022 will be Sandro Botticelli, the sale will include other very interesting works that present an opportunity for serious collectors.
Pending the final closing of the sale of Rembrandt’s “The Standard Bearer” to the Dutch State for nearly $200 million (with the Rijksmuseum being its most likely destination), we summarize in this post 10 of the most interesting acquisitions made by art museums in 2021, presented in chronological order.
The art world mourns the death of Wayne Thiebaud (November 15, 1920 – December 25, 2021), a legend of Pop Art.
The upcoming January 2022 American art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s include an interesting group of American landscapes and an enigmatic portrait by Ammi Phillips.
Paintings by Anders Zorn and Sir Alfred Munnings led the December 2021 European and British art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in London.
From December 16 to 19, 2021, Art Brussels -one of the most important art fairs in Europe- presents the first edition of Art Antwerp, a new contemporary art fair that will exhibit works from 59 art galleries.
“Composition with Blue”, a work painted in 1926 by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, and now owned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, was illegally seized by the Nazis, according to the artist’s heirs.
Art auctions 2021 review: from a $103 million Picasso to the first multimillion NFT artworks, we present our personal review of the 2021 Art Auctions season, its superstars, successes, bargains and disappointments.
The Dutch state has announced that it has raised sufficient funds to acquire “De Vaandeldrager” (“The Standard Bearer”), one of Rembrandt’s great masterpieces in private hands, for some €165 million ($200 million).
