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A painting by an artist whose work is expected to draw bids of $4 million to $6 million at Sotheby’s auction house this summer has been selected as the image for the 2008 Spoleto Festival USA poster. An oil-on-linen abstract work, “Painting With Verticals, Cadence 3 (2006)” by British artist Bridget Riley, will be mounted … Read more
LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) – Ten works of art from one of the world’s major private collections amassed by the late philanthropist Gustav Rau are to go on sale at Sotheby’s in July, the auctioneer said on Friday. The German industrialist, who sold the family auto parts business, trained as a doctor and spent 20 … Read more
It was Queen Victoria who once said that he spoke to her as if he was addressing a public meeting. Now some of the last material connections between one of Britain’s greatest Prime Ministers, William Ewart Gladstone, and Scotland are to be put on sale publicly for the first time in a £1m event at … Read more
Advertisements for prostitutes inscribed on walls in the ancient European cities of Ephesus and Pompeii show that graffiti has been with us since antiquity. It wasn’t until the 1980s that these informal public declarations were elevated from vandalism to art, as works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring entered the galleries. Now the irreverent art … Read more
One of the most important masterpieces by the great British painter J. M. W. Turner could be lost to public view when it appears on the market for the first time in 181 years. Pope’s Villa at Twickenham goes on sale at Sotheby’s in London on July 9 with a starting price of £5 million, … Read more