□ Saturday, 27 Jun 2009

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction Realised $41.9 Million in London
Tonight in London , Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction realised the strong total of £25,549,540 ($41,911,318/€29,823,964), near the top pre-sale expectations for the sale (Estimate: £19,755,000-27,435,000). More...

□ Friday, 26 Jun 2009

Homme a l'epee Sells for 7 Million and Leads Sotheby's Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art
Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art tonight brought a total of £33,531,150/ US$55,323,044/ €39,479,519* – a figure comfortably within the pre-sale expectations of £26,750,000-37,270,000 – and saw 23 of the 27 lots offered find buyers. More...

□ Tuesday, 23 Jun 2009

Sotheby's Sale to Include a Rare Manuscript Containing the Earliest Depictions of Joan of Arc
Sotheby’s London sale of Western Manuscripts on Tuesday 7th July 2009 has a combined total sale estimate of Ł3 million and will include the sale of Medieval Illuminated Miniatures from the Collection of the Late Eric Korner. More...

Christie's Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in London Realises $60.4 Million
A "musketeer" painted by Pablo Picasso was one of the big attractions at an auction of impressionist and modern art at Christie's held in London, where it sold for 5.7 million pounds ($9.3 million). More...

□ Saturday, 20 Jun 2009

Three Paintings Top the Million Dollar Mark at Heffel's $11.3 Million Spring Auction
Heffel Fine Art Auction House set a new record sale price tonight when a rare Emily Carr painting sold for $2,164,500 in the second session of Heffel’s Live Spring Auction. More...

Indian Art Achieves 2,067,400 Pounds and Exceeds Pre-Sale Expectations at Sotheby's London
Sotheby's annual sale of Indian Art in London, which took place yesterday, realised a total of Ł2,067,400 / US$3,376,684, a sum in excess of pre-sale expectations (the pre-sale estimate for the sale was Ł1,193,500-1,754,000). More...

□ Monday, 15 Jun 2009

artnet Launches Icons: 20th-21st Century Photographic Portraits Sale
From June 15-25 artnet Auctions will feature Icons: 20th-21st Century Photographic Portraits, a special sale of 200 original fine art photographs of legendary figures including The Beatles, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, President Barack Obama and Elvis Presley. More...

□ Sunday, 14 Jun 2009

Rare Works by Goya, Fragonard, David and Turner at Sotheby's July Old Master Paintings
Sotheby's forthcoming sales of Old Master Paintings and Drawings to take place in London on Wednesday, July 8 and Thursday, July 9, 2009 will bring to the market a superb selection of rare works by renowned French, Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, Italian and British Old Masters... More...

□ Friday, 12 Jun 2009

Sotheby's Sells a Magnificent Pair of Russian Imperial Porcelain Vases for an Extraordinary Sum
At Sotheby’s London this afternoon, a magnificent pair of Russian Imperial Porcelain Vases sold for the extraordinary sum of Ł2,617,250, well in excess of the pre-sale estimate for the pair of Ł1.2-1.8 million. More...

Picasso, Monet and Giacometti, Lead Sotheby's Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art
Sotheby's forthcoming sale of Impressionist & Modern Art on the evening of Wednesday, June 24, 2009 will be led by rare works by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. More...

Sotheby's London Contemporary Art Evening Sale to Present Three Rare Andy Warhol Paintings
Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Thursday, June 25, 2009 will be spearheaded by three exceptionally rare Andy Warhol paintings from an important European collection - Mrs McCarthy and Mrs Brown (Tuna Fish Disaster)... More...

Picasso Drawings Valued at $9.8 Million and $14 Million Stolen from Paris Museum
(EFE) A sketchbook containing drawings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso valued at between 7 million and 10 million euros ($9.8 million and $14 million) was stolen from the Picasso Museum in Paris, police told Efe Tuesday. More...

The Times Top 200 Artists of the 20th Century to Now
Sixteen weeks after we invited you to have your say, the votes are in — all 1.4 million of them. Here, we reveal the results of our poll, in conjunction with the Saatchi, to discover who you think are the greatest artists working since 1900 More...

□ Thursday, 11 Jun 2009

Bonhams to Sell Painting by Artist Described by Hitler As "Degenerate"
Oscar Kokoschka’s magnificent riverscape, `London, Chelsea Reach’, a view from Lindsay House looking towards Battersea was done when the artist was 71 years old in 1957 having fled Prague in 1938 to escape Hitler’s invading army. More...

Sorolla's Recently Re-discovered Painting Leads Sotheby's 19th Century European Paintings Sale
Sotheby's sale of 19th Century European Paintings at Sotheby’s in London (featuring German, Austrian and Central European Paintings, The Orientalist Sale, Spanish Paintings and The Scandinavian Sale) realised... More...