art sales and auctions

“I’ve seen so many paintings of Chinese paintings through the ages and decorations on porcelain ... to see that suddenly in real life was really quite a transformation.”

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As a longtime insider to auctions, artworks, and antiques, Lark Mason is a mine of information. We picked his brain for some tips.

Paintings by El Greco and Pompeo Girolamo Batoni will lead sales of old master works in a slew of high-profile sales at major auctions houses in New York in late January.

:A painting by an important Irish artist, leads Bonhams upcoming 19th-century sale in London.

Two rare photographs, one featuring The Beatles and another Elizabeth Taylor, are to go under the hammer in London.

Several good-quality Italian Renaissance works led the Sotheby’s sales, each achieving over $4 million, and a number of quality works brought in well over their estimates, boosting the total results.

New York’s biannual Asian sales week is slated for mid-September and is not likely to disappoint.

Staggering results were achieved at famous art auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s during Asia Week New York.

There are three auctions coming up at Doyle New York during March and April that caught my eye.

Art from the last century is still popular and sells at auction for millions of dollars.

Hong Kong is becoming the capital of wine labels, with the latest auctions of top French bottles fetching over $US15 million.

In less than two hours on Monday, Feb. 23, during the first evening of the three auction sessions on Yves Saint Laurent—Pierre Berge’s art collection, a new record has been set for future art auctions.

Citigroup Inc., the largest U.S. bank by assets, said that federal regulators and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have subpoenaed information from the bank regarding sales of auction rate securities.