In November 2021, Christie’s will auction in New York one of the most important private art collections in the world, the one assembled by Edwin Lochridge Cox. Featuring masterpieces by Caillebotte, Van Gogh and Cézanne, among others, the combined value of the collection could exceed $200 million.
On August 3rd and 4th, Bonhams will auction an important group of Western and Californian artworks in three separate sales.
The National Gallery in London has announced an agreement to acquire “The Red Boy” (1825), one of the most famous portraits by the British painter Sir Thomas Lawrence.
From this week, and for a period of five years, Pablo Picasso will finally be represented in the Prado Museum, although not with the Guernica (as the artist wished), but with “Bust of a Woman”, a work painted in 1943, and deposited in the museum by the American Friends of the Prado Museum.
Chronology of the plundering of the Benin Bronzes, and the long struggle for their repatriation
Highlights from Sotheby’s and Christie’s European and British art auctions in London, July 2021.
In summer 2021, Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” and Velázquez’s “Las Hilanderas” can be admired as they were painted by their respective authors.
On July 8th, 2021, “View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi” by Bernardo Bellotto was sold for £10.57 million at Christie’s auction of Old masters paintings, just a few hours after a small drawing by Leonardo da Vinci achieved £8.86 million. The day before, Sotheby’s auction was led by an early seascape by J.M.W. Turner.
The 40th edition of ARCO Madrid, which takes place from 7 to 11 July 2021, aims to reactivate the art market after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wassily Kandinsky’s “Tensions calmées” was the top lot at the London art auctions in June 2021, ahead of works by Lucian Freud, Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti which also sold for hefty prices.
