Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898) Love among the Ruinswatercolour on paper, 96.5 x 152.4 cm.Estimate: £3,000,000 – £5,000,000 ($4,600,000 – $7,500,000)Sold for £14,845,875 ($22,432,117) Dante… Read More »Pre-raphaelite masterpieces under the hammer
Jan Mostaert Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America c. 1535 Jan Mostaert Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America (detail)… Read More »Rijksmuseum acquires Jan Mostaert’s ‘Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America’
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (1541–1614) Saint Dominic in prayer Estimate: £3,000,000 – £5,000,000 ($4,580,000 – $7,640,000) Sold for £9,154,500 ($13,983,650) Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto… Read More »El Greco and Canaletto lead old masters auctions in London
Jean-Michel Basquiat Untitled Painted in 1982 Sold for £18,765,875 / $28,974,511 / €22,031,137 at Christie’s Francis Bacon Three Studies for Isabel Rawsthorne Painted in 1966… Read More »Basquiat, Bacon led contemporary art sales in London
Claude Monet Le Palais Contarini, 1908Estimate: £15-20 million Sold for £19,682,500/ $30,503,938/ €22,998,940) at Sotheby’s Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Studie zu Improvisation 3, 1909 Estimate: £12-16… Read More »Monet and Kandinsky lead auctions in London, June 2013
Jan van Huysum, (1682-1749) Still Life of Roses, Tulips, Peonies andother Flowers in a Sculpted Vase and a Bird’s Nest on a LedgeAbout 1718Oil on… Read More »Dutch flower painting by Jan van Huysum acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland
Claude MonetLe Palais Contarini, 1908Estimate: £15-20 million In 2008, Monet‘s “Le bassin aux nympheas” sold for £41 million / $80.5 million – a record price… Read More »Monet to lead Sotheby’s London auction, June 2013
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Studie zu Improvisation 3, 1909 Estimate: £12-16 million Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Studie für improvisation 8, 1909 Sold for $23,042,500 in November 2012… Read More »Kandinsky to lead Christie’s London sale, June 2013
Boxer at Rest (Boxer of Quirinal) Bronze, Hellenistic period (323–31 B.C.) Ancient Greek boxer on loan to Metropolitan Museum ‘Boxer at Rest’ -a famous ancient… Read More »Ancient Greek boxer on loan to Metropolitan Museum
John Constable Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831 Constable’s ‘Salisbury Cathedral’ saved for the UK John Constable’s ‘Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows’ (1831) has been… Read More »Constable’s ‘Salisbury Cathedral’ saved for the UK
