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London’s Frieze Week Tests Art Market
October 11, 2011London’s “Freize Week” is a mix of art exhibitions, fairs, lectures, and perhaps most visibly, auctions. Over the course of the festival, 1,178 lots will be offered worth some $173m. “This week is going to be a big test of the market,” said art dealer Nicholas McLean. Items to keep an eye on: Gerhard Richter’s 1982 work “Kerze (Candle),” the highlight of Christie’s sale on Friday, and Lucian Freud’s small portrait, “Head of a Boy”(1952), which leads Sotheby’s auction on Thursday.
Read more...Sotheby’s Bets Big On Italian Art
September 28, 2011How popular is 20th Century Italian Art? Sotheby’s is predicting it will rack up the highest total take ever recorded by any auction house in that category when it stages its October sale in London. An example of offerings is a painting by Gino Severini with a high estimate of nearly $1m.
Read more...20th Century Italian Masterworks At Sotheby’s
October 12, 2010Sotheby’s turns its focus to 20th Century Italian art in a London sale featuring major works by Lucio Fontana, Marino Mariani, Giorgio de Chirico and Alberto Burri. Top lots at the October 15th sale, which has become a yearly event for Sotheby’s, are expected to be de Chicico’s “Interno Metafisico (Natura Morta Metafisica)” and Lucio Fontana’s “Concetto Spaziale, Attese,” each of which is estimated to sell for up to $4 million.
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