Both Sotheby’s (S) and Christies (C) have major London auctions this week, head to head in impressionist, modern and surrealist categories.
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The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
This week’s Top exhibitions to view includes:
A cow’s head, black history, fluttering decomposition, football, explosions, a rusted flag and minimalism.
The Auction as Show
Unsurprisingly, the leading auction houses are all selling photographic work to coincide with Photo London (18-21 May). By way of a warm-up, I looked at them as exhibits rather than as potential purchases. Do they make for a good visit?
Continue Reading...Audrey Hepburn: The Personal Collection, Part III
The third and final auction from the estate of Audrey Hepburn will take place online next week. Following on from last year’s hugely successful sales, the auction includes over 200 further lots from the archive of one of the most beloved screen actresses of the 20th century.
Continue Reading...Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi heading to the Louvre Abu Dhabi
A Saudi Arabian prince, Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan al-Saud, has been identified as the buyer of the most expensive ever painting, Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Continue Reading...Cy Twombly’s great clandestine masterpiece offered up by Christies
Cy Twombly’s Leda and the Swan, 1962 will be a highlight of Christies May 17th Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale.
Continue Reading...Leading International artists use materials recovered from The Glasgow School of Art fire to create new works for auction.
25 leading international artists, including Simon Starling, Sir Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry, Cornelia Parker, Jenny Saville, David Shrigley and Douglas Gordon have used materials retrieved from The Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh library after the fire to create original works of art to help raise money for restoration of the Mackintosh Building.
Continue Reading...The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London this week 22/08/16
Kissing, war, oil, flight and folk art
Continue Reading...The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
Infinity rooms, Old Masters, contemporary sculpture, giant teeth and Dismaland
Continue Reading...EXCLUSIVE Interview: FAD caught up with Bianca Chu Head of First Open/LDN Christie’s ahead of its late opening this Wednesday
First Open/LDN late opens this Wednesday – talks, demonstrations and a great live Auction
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