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Cozens enters new territory and breaks the £2m barrier
Art Market - 26 July 2010
AMONG a series of records for British watercolours posted during Sotheby's sale entitled An Exceptional Eye: A Private British Collection on July 14, the most spectacular price was the £2.1m bid for this striking view of the Lake of Albano and Castel Gandolfo by John Robert Cozens (1752-1797).
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<em>The Lake of Albano and Castel Gandolfo</em> by John Robert Cozens &ndash; &pound;2.1m at Sotheby's.
Munch's Madonna brings over £1m in London
Art Market - 19 July 2010
WHEN it comes to modern prints, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) stands in a league with only Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol as artists who have made sums getting on for £1m at auction. However, Bonhams broke through that barrier on July 13 when they offered an extremely rare version of one of the Norwegian artist’s best known images.
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The rare early print Madonna by Edvard Munch that made £1.1m at Bonhams.
Turner the £26.5m toast of London’s Old Master sales
Art Market - 12 July 2010
HAD it not been for the headline-grabbing and record-breaking J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), the latest Old Master auctions in London would have seemed a bit flat.
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<em>Modern Rome &ndash; Campo Vaccino</em> by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), which sold for a record &pound;26.5m at Sotheby's, going to the Getty Museum via London dealers Hazlitt, Gooden &amp; Fox.
British works set records in flatter Contemporary market
Art Market - 05 July 2010
THE latest Contemporary art sales in London were a little flatter than expected, but Modern British art generated a batch of stand-out prices.
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<em>Mornington Crescent &ndash; Summer Morning</em>, which set a new high for Frank Auerbach at Sotheby's Contemporary art sale where it sold for &pound;2m.
Huge totals at Imps & Mods sales despite overheated estimates
Art Market - 28 June 2010
THE latest Impressionist & Modern art auction series in London saw rising returns for the salerooms but buyers reacted unfavourably to heavy estimates on the most expensive works.
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<em>Arbres &agrave; Colliour</em>e by Andr&eacute; Derain, which drew one of the stronger bidding battles at Sotheby's Impressionist &amp; Modern art evening sale and sold at a record &pound;14.5m.
EU to delay impact report on Artists' Resale Right
Art Market - 21 June 2010
THE European Commission has reneged on a legal undertaking to review the effects of the Artist’s Resale Right in the UK before it is extended to the estates of dead artists.
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£33.5m record for Modigliani and for France
Art Market - 21 June 2010
IT may have been an exceptional piece that generated an equally exceptional level of presale interest but, even still, few people present at Christie's Paris for the sale of Amedeo Modigliai's (1884-1920) Tête were expecting it to become the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction in France.
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<em>Tête</em> by Amedeo Modigliani that made 38.5m Euros (&pound;33.5m) at Christie's in Paris.
Russian art sales see some return to form
Art Market - 14 June 2010
THE latest Russian art sales in the capital saw the continuing recovery of an important sector for London’s auctioneers. The market may lack the free spending seen before the downturn in October 2008 but the June sales were significantly up on the equivalent series last year.
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The portrait of the influential editor and publisher Zinovii Grzhebin by Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov that made £1.55m at Sotheby’s Russian art sale on June 8.
Why Epstein record is surprisingly modest
Art Market - 01 June 2010
SETTING the highest price ever seen at auction for Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), this lifesize sculpture of a mother and child, overshot its £60,000-80,000 estimate at Sotheby's latest sale of Modern British art in London before being knocked down to a private buyer at £120,000.
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Domenichino’s St John saved for the nation
Art Market - 28 May 2010
CONSIDERED the finest work by the Italian Baroque master Domenico Zampieri, Il Domenichino (1581-1641), in private hands, this painting of St John the Evangelist has been saved for the nation. It has gone on display in the National Gallery's Baroque rooms.
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