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Christie’s toast ‘highest total in auction history’

16 May 2013

Christie’s evening sale of Contemporary art in New York last night posted a hammer total of $435.5m (£294.2m).

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Art Market

Contemporary art sale at Sotheby’s posts $250m total

15 May 2013

Barnett Newman (1905-70) and Gerhard Richter (b.1932) starred at Sotheby’s evening sale of Contemporary art last night as the run of strong performing sales in this sector showed little sign of abating.

Art Market

Silver snail – the ‘trump piece’ bid to £8200

13 May 2013

Holding a major silver sale days after the melt price has plummeted by about £3 an ounce is hardly ideal timing.

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Sotheby’s take short-term hit as business develops and lot values rise

13 May 2013

Sotheby’s lost $22.3m from January to March 2013, more than twice the amount for the same period in 2012.

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International

Trade bid for rise in ARR threshold

13 May 2013

Art dealer Niall Fairhead is leading a new campaign to persuade the Government to raise the Artist’s Resale Right threshold from €1000 to the €3000 stipulated by the European Commission.

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Soutine’s pastry chefs leads Christie’s sale

09 May 2013

A painting by Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) entitled ‘Le petit pâtissier’ was the top lot of Christie’s latest evening sale of Impressionist & Modern art in New York.

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Birmingham Group jeweller emerges from the shadows

09 May 2013

Although taught by Bernard Cuzner at the St Margaret School of Art and a contemporary of both Dorrie Nossiter and Katie Eadie, George Edward Hunt (1892-1960) is not the best-known jeweller of the Birmingham Group.

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Katz catches a falcon for £950,000

07 May 2013

Standing in the same spot where he had placed the winning £3.25m bid for an Egyptian statue of Isis six months before, London dealer Daniel Katz was again in action at Christie’s South Kensington’s latest antiquities sale.

Auction Reports

Ceramics and glass feast for London rooms

07 May 2013

Last week was a busy one for glass and ceramics in the London rooms with five auctions taking place over the space of 48 hours and some bullish prices for top pieces.

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International bidders compete for pearls and coloured stones

07 May 2013

A single pearl-drop earring worn by Charles I at his execution in 1649, a maharaja’s coat richly embroidered with pearls c.1870, and a necklace of cultured pearls given to Marilyn Monroe by Joe DiMaggio in 1954 – all part of an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum this autumn.

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