Auctions Show Signs of Being Squeezed by Scarcity
Auctions Show Signs of Being Squeezed by Scarcity – More from Melikian on the recent London sales and the lack of high quality material coming to the market. This is happening in many areas of the art market (we are seeing … More…
Urban Nightmare, Sensual Landscapes in Corbusier Legacy
Urban Nightmare, Sensual Landscapes in Corbusier Legacy – currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC – Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscape. A retrospective featuring 320 works by one of the 20th centuries most influential architects. … More…
New York billionaire Leon Blacks bid to take £29m Raphael from UK blocked by Ed Vaizey
Back in December, Sotheby’s London auctioned a drawing by Raphael entitled, “Head of a Young Apostle.” After an intense bidding war, the work sold for £29 million , roughly three times the estimate and an auction record for a work on … More…
Dali Watercolors
Last month, 5/20/2013, I posted on a series of 14 watercolors heading to auction by the prominent Spanish surrealist painter, Salvador Dali. After remaining in a private collection for over 4 decades the works were set to be sold at … More…