<!––> Make text smaller Make text larger Photos ?Sit Boy Sit? by –Desmond Fountain<!– 2 of 3 –> ?Squirt? by Desmond Fountain<!– 3 of 3 –> Two sculptures by renowned Bermudian artist Desmond Fountain fetched a total of more than $17,000 at auction yesterday. While one of the sculptures, a 22in model of a...
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Archive for February, 2012
Two Fountain sculptures sell for $17000+ at Christies
We don’t own that Modigliani
Art law USA We don’t own that Modigliani Nahmads say the contested painting belongs to another organisation By Gareth Harris. News, Issue 233, March 2012Published online: 29 February 2012 The Nahmads’ lawyers say the art dealers never owned “Seated Man with a Cane” by Modigliani, above The news that the billionaire New York art...
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Local man’s treasure trove goes for auction
A DUNDALK man’s treasure trove is to go under the hammer in March. The late Francis Cecil Quinn, formerly of Castletown Mount, is not a person most locals would have run into – unless they were doing business in Nigeria or had run into a spot of bother there – during recent decades, as...
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Cambodia’s art revolution reaches global market
Cambodian art taking on the world. Phnom Penh: From the artworks of the capital’s burgeoning galleries to the distinct school of design evolving in the north-western town of Battambang, Cambodian art is increasingly reaching a global market. Cambodia’s home-grown artists are showing in major Asian cities such as Hong Kong and Singapore. A season...
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‘David Park: A Painter’s Life’
David Park: A Painter’s Life, Nancy Boas, University of California Press, 2012, 368 pages In the prologue of David Park: A Painter’s Life, a newly published biography of the pioneering representational painter, author Nancy Boas describes the scene at Sotheby’s New York on May 15, 2007. That evening, a David Park oil, “Standing Male...
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Rarely seen Lichtenstein Pop Art masterpiece offered at Sotheby’s
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Haute Toys: Sotheby’s to Auction “The Scream” for $80 Million
Image: EdvardMunch.com The only privately owned version of Edvard Munch’s 1895 “The Scream” painting is heading to Sotheby’s auction in New York on May 2. The famous artwork is expected to go for more than $80 million, the highest estimate any piece of art has been given by an auctioneer. Norwegian businessman Petter Olsen...
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Perfect lots for golfers
A COLLECTION of golf memorabilia could fetch as much as £2 million when it goes on sale in May. Lots including paintings, clubs and balls dating back hundreds of years are included in the collection, which will be auctioned at Christie’s in London on Wednesday, May 30. Among the highlights of the sale is...
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Florida museum auctions off antique cars, carousel
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) – Two brothers’ unique private museum of classic cars, rare musical instruments and other collectibles was emptied Saturday with the final strike of an auctioneer’s gavel, bringing in $38.3 million in sales. Two days of bidding on 550 lots neared their conclusion with the biggest sale of them all, $3.3...
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A Scream worth millions
Estimated at $80 million, a psychedelic painting by Edvard Munch, The Scream, has received the highest pre-sale value ever put on a work of art by Sotheby’s auctioneers. Munch’s provocative painting has been described as “a pivotal work in the history of art” and one of the most instantly recognizable images in history, “second...
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