Category: Art World News

The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, the only work by Jan van Eyck (about 1390/95–1441) to be held in France, is one of the Louvre’s master paintings. Jan van Eyck (Netherlands, about 1390/95–1441) Madonna of Chancellor Rolin oil on panel 66 x 62 cm Painted circa 1435 Collection of Musée du Louvre, Paris To celebrate the ...

Christie’s Paris: Art d’Asie, 6-18 June 2024, presents 240 lots of important porcelain and works of art, including cloisonné enamels, lacquer and Buddhist sculptures. Highlights include a selection of extremely rare porcelain from the Ming Dynasty from a private European collection comprising a yellow-ground blue and white ‘gardenia’ dish from the Zhengde reign (1506-1521) and ...

Henry Howard-Sneyd, Chairman of Asian Arts, Americas, and Europe, headed an auction for an extremely rare Qing Dynasty bowl, one of only three known to exist, at Sotheby's in Hong Kong on April 3, 2018. This bowl, made for the Chinese emperor Kangxi, fetched 30.4 million USD at Sotheby's. Henry Howard-Sneyd is Chairman of Asian Art, ...

Sotheby's Chairman of Asian Art, Europe and Americas based between London and New York and lead Auctioneer globally in Asian Art Henry Howard-Sneyd and Christie's Vietnamese Art Expert Jean-François Hubert at Christie's Paris exhibition The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread — Important Vietnamese Artworks from the Melchior Dejouany Collection, 9 Avenue Matignon 75008 ...

French collector Melchior Dejouany and Hong Kong collector Richard Kan at Christie's Paris exhibition The Phoenix Glue and the Broken Silk Thread — Important Vietnamese Artworks from the Melchior Dejouany Collection, 9 Avenue Matignon 75008 Paris, France Hong Kong collector Richard Kan (Courtesy Sotheby's) Richard Kan is a Hong Kong-based collector of international repute of ...

Jean Siméon Chardin’s Le Melon entamé fetched EUR €26,730,000 at Christie’s Paris, 12 June 2024 Chardin was the pre-eminent still-life painter of his day and would go on to inspire Manet, Matisse and Cezanne. This masterpiece from the Rothschild family collection is offered with the estimate EUR 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 in Maîtres Anciens: Peintures — ...

Invitation to a Vietnamese art exhibition "La colle du phénix et le fil de soie brisé: œuvres vietnamiennes majeures de la collection Melchior Dejouany" ("Phoenix Glue and Silk Thread: major Vietnamese works from Melchior Dejouany Collection") at Christie's Paris, 9 Avenue Matignon, Paris, France, with no fewer than nine artists, including Le Pho, Mai Trung ...

It was in his New York studio that Marcel Duchamp worked for 20 years, from 1946 to 1966, on this installation which he wishes to be his testament. It will in fact be permanently exhibited, one year after his death, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in accordance with his wishes. On one wall, a ...

Vincent van Gogh (Netherlands, 1853-1890) Naaiende vrouw (Woman Sewing) gouache, watercolour and black and white chalk on paper 23 ¾ x 17 ½ in. (60.1 x 44.6 cm.) Executed in Etten in October - November 1881 Estimate GBP 2,000,000 – GBP 3,000,000 Price Realised GBP 2,460,000 Christie's London, 20th/21st Century Evening Sale, 7 March 2024

Francis Bacon (Ireland/England, 1909-1992) Landscape near Malabata, Tangier titled and dated ‘Landscape near Malabata, Tangier 1963’ (on the reverse) oil on canvas 78 x 57in. (198.1 x 144.8cm.) Painted in 1963 Estimate GBP 15,000,000 – GBP 20,000,000 Price Realised GBP 19,630,000 Christie's London, 20th/21st Century Evening Sale, 7 March 2024