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By Adrian Darmon
CHRISTIE'S SALE OF POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART TOPS THE £124 MILLION MARK IN LONDON
Christie's auction of Post-War & Contemporay Art held in London on February 13, 2014 totalled 124,192,000 pounds, the 2nd highest total for a European auction in this field.
176,986,000 POUNDS FOR CHRISTIES' SALE OF IMPRESSIONIST, MODERN AND SURREALIST ART IN LONDON Christie's realized 176,986,000 pounds ($289 million) for its sale of Impressionist, modern and Surrealist art held in London on February 5, 2014, the highest total ever reached for a U. K auction. Link
67 MILLION USD FOR SOTHEBY'S SALE OF OLD MASTER AND SCULPTURE IN NEW YORK Sotheby's 30 January 2014 auctions of Old Master paintings and sculpture achieved over $67 million especially during the morning session with a group of works from the Dutch Golden Age performing exceptionally well. Link
SOTHEBY'S SALE OF OLD MASTER DRAWINGS IN NEW YORK TOTALS JUST OVER 4 MILLION USD Sotheby's sale of old master drawings held in New York on January 29, 2014 totalled 4,006,125 USD (inclusive of buyer's premium) thanks to two drawings by Giandomenico Tiepolo which were sold for over 1,4 million USD. Link
NEW HEADS FOR SOTHEBY'S DEPARTMENTS OF CONTEMPOARY, MODERN AND IMPRESSIONIST ART
Sotheby's appointed on January 31, 2014 Alexander Rotter and Cheyenne Westphal as its new heads of its Contempary art department after Tobias Meyer left the group at the end of November 2013 while Helena Newman and Simon shaw have been designated to manage its sales of Impressionist and Modern art.
THE CLEVELAND DISMISSED CLAIMS ABOUT VAN GOGH FORGERIES Following claims made by two authors of a new eBook that eight paintings By Vincent Van Gogh on view at the Philipps collection were fakes, the Cleveland Museum of Art dismissed such allegations on January 28th 2014. Link
13,6 MILLION USD FOR THE ROTHSCHILD PRAYERBOOK
The Rothschild Prayerbook,” a magnificent masterpiece of Renaissance art with an illustrious provenance, sold at Christie's New York on January 28, 2014 for 13,605,000 USD (£8,215,583 /EUR9,931,650), maintaining its auction record for an illuminated manuscript but not equalling its 1999 result in terms of money value.
EMILE SCHUFFENECKER, A MAJOR FORGER OF VAN GOGH WORKS ACCORDING TO TWO SPECIALISTS by Adrian Darmon Hanspeter Born and Benoît Landais, two specialists of Vincent Van Gogh's works, have claimed that Paul Gauguin's friend Emile Schuffenecker had forged many of his works, including the famed "Sunflowers" sold for a world record price by Christie's in 1987. Link
CHRISTIE'S RETURNS UP BY 16% IN 2013 Christie's world Art Sales in 2013 totalled a record 4.54 billion GBP (7.13 billion US), up 16% with 30% of new buyers while sales in China and India increased by 44%. Link
THE ART MARKET POISONED BY MONEY
Tobias Meyer, who was forced to resign from Sotheby's two months ago, summed up in 2006 that the best art was the most expensive thus proving that the art market has become the realm of those who had huge sums of money at their disposal.
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CHRISTIE'S SALE OF POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART TOPS THE £124 MILLION MARK IN LONDON
