Old Masters auctions total more than $120 million (Reuters)
Reuters - Old Masters paintings brought in more than $120 million at auction sales this week, with several works selling for more than $5 million each and records set for some artists. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts
Canaletto, Memling expected to lead Old Masters sales (Reuters)
Reuters - An early 14th century panel of the Virgin Mary, a view of Venice by Canaletto and a very rare oil on copper still life will be among the highlights of Sotheby's sale of Old Master Paintings this week. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts
An Orientalist Revival and Online Fervor Enlivened Christie’s $36.7 Million Old Masters Auction (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - With some high-flying prices, yesterday's Old Masters and 19th-century sale at Christie's saw brisk interest in French and Italian artists, with especially strong prices for painters such as Jean-Léon Gérome and Jean-François Millet, who are not exactly household names. With total sales of $36.7 million, the two-session auction narrowly missed its overall low estimate of $38.6 million. Alongside a very respectable sell-through rate of 70 percent by lot and by value, the sale featured a new record price for 18th-century Italian artist Luca Carlevarijs, whose "View of the Molo, Venice, Looking West," was the top lot at $4 million, hitting its $3.5 to $4.5 million estimate dead-center. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts
Old Masters sale takes in $28 million at Christie’s (Reuters)
Reuters - An iconic 19th-Century painting depicting an Ottoman Empire reserve soldier and his hunting dogs sold for $1.65 million on Wednesday at Christie's Old Master and 19th-Century paintings auction. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts
London’s Wallace Collection, Known for Old Masters and a Notorious Hirst Show, Appoints a New Director (ARTINFO)
ARTINFO - London's Wallace Collection, a storied repository of Old Masters that gained some notoriety for its recent show of Damien Hirst's critically-eviscerated paintings, has appointed a traditionalist curator Christoph Vogtherr to be its new director. Currently acting head of collections at the Wallace and its curator of pre-1800 paintings, Vogtherr will replace Rosalind Savill when she retires from the director's post this fall. "Having run a fully international competition, it is very satisfying to find the right balance of scholarship and leadership from within the Wallace Collection itself," John Ritblat, chair of the museum's board of trustees, said in a statement. View full post on Yahoo! News: Arts