- Exhibition at Grimaldi Forum Monaco celebrates the splendour of the last Chinese imperial dynasty
- The Michael & Eleonore Stoffel Stiftung acquired five works by Anselm Kiefer for the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
- "113 Ors d'Asie" au Musée Guimet
- "Flower Power: Spirit of the Summer of Love in Full Bloom" opens at the Asian Art Museum
- Hubert de Givenchy à la Cité de la dentelle et de la mode
- 'Costumes espagnols : entre ombre et lumière' à Maison de Victor Hugo
- Scottish National Gallery opens "Beyond Caravaggio"
- Exhibition marks the 450th anniversary of the accession of the Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol
- Museo del Prado opens new permanent collection itinerary on same-sex relationships
- Giovanni da Rimini: A 14th-century masterpiece unveiled at the National Gallery
- Renaissance Venice. The Triumph of Beauty and the Destruction of Painting at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
- 'Adorning the Inner Court: Jun Ware for the Chinese Palace' at Harvard Art Museums
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts showcases art, innovation of haute couture design
- Desire, love, identity: British Museum explores LGBTQ histories
- The MET Costume Institute presents 'Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between'
- "Past Is Present: Revival Jewelry" at MFA Boston
- The MET presents 'Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.–A.D. 220)'
- "Des Grands Moghols aux Maharadjahs. Joyaux de la collection Al Thani" au Grand Palais
- Exhibition at Frans Hals Museum exhibits 17th century works from the Netherlands and China
- "FANTIN-LATOUR. À fleur de peau" au Musée de Grenoble
- Asia Society Museum opens 'Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia'
- Eighteenth-Century French Paintings From Across America on View at National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Exhibition devoted to the partnership between Michelangelo & Sebastiano opens
- 'The Poetry of Venetian Painting. Paris Bordone, Palma il Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto, Titian' at Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Rarely seen Renaissance paintings by Venice masters on view at the North Carolina Museum of Art
- "Balenciaga, L’œuvre au noir" au musée Bourdelle
- "An Inner World. Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Painting" at Clark Art Institute
- First exhibition dedicated to the work of Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti opens in Doha
- Looking North and South Considers Early European Prints at the Clark
- "Kimono - Au bonheur des dames" au musée Guimet, 22 février– 22 mai 2017
- 'Between Heaven and Hell: The Drawings of Jusepe de Ribera' at Meadows Museum
- Museum Ludwig celebrates Gerhard Richter's eighty-fifth birthday
- The Holburne Museum opens first exhibition devoted to the Bruegel dynasty
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition to explore transformative power of jewelry, art objects
- 'Masterworks from Budapest. From the Renaissance to the Avant-Garde' at Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 18 February to 28 May
- Hermitage Amsterdam opens unique exhibition: 1917. Romanovs & Revolution
- Groundbreaking contemporary fashion exhibition comes to Carnegie Museum of Art
- V&A to stage the first ever UK exhibition on fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga
- SAP cofounder and art collector Hasso Plattner opens Barberini Museum in Potsdam
- Vermeer et les maîtres de la peinture de genre au Louvre du 22 février au 22 mai 2017
- Exhibition seeks to analyse an important moment in the career of Lorenzo Lotto
- Seven Centuries from the Woodner Collections Celebrated at National Gallery of Art, March 12–July 16, 2017
- "De Zurbarán à Rothko. Collection Alicia Koplowitz - Grupo Omega Capital Ω" au musée Jacquemart-André à partir du 3 mars 2017
- Getty Museum presents first major exhibition on 18th century artist Edme Bouchardon
- Scottish National Gallery welcomes in the New Year with Turner exhibition
- National Portrait Gallery to stage first major exhibition devoted entirely to Cézanne's portraits
- National Gallery of Victoria to present "The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture"
- Ground-breaking display on garniture/vase sets on view at the Victoria & Albert Museum
- Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibits nude art from the Tate Collection
- Portraits of artists from Rubens to Freud on display at The Queen's Gallery in London
- “Reuniting the Masters: European Drawings from West Coast Collections” at the Crocker Art Museum
- The origin of still life in Italy explored in new exhibition at the Galleria Borghese
- Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein opens exhibition of works from the Hilti Art Foundation
- Exhibition brings together historic and contemporary silver masterpieces
- « Le goût de la parure. Portraits du château de Versailles » au Château d'Angers
- State Hermitage Museum presents an exhibition of works by Mariano Fortuny
- The youth of Impressionism: Works by Frédéric Bazille on view in Paris
- The Frick Pittsburgh's world class collection highlighted in new exhibition and book
- Camille Pissarro, "Le premier des impressionnistes" au musée Marmottan Monet
- "Tenue correcte exigée : quand le vêtement fait scandale" aux Arts Décoratifs
- De l’alcôve aux barricades. De Fragonard à David. Dessins des Beaux-Arts de Paris à la Fondation Custodia
- Emotionally charged relationship between man and woman explored in exhibition
- From the Lands of Asia: A world premiere at Pointe-à-Callière
- Exhibition brings to Los Angeles some of the greatest achievements of German Renaissance art
- Exhibition at Museo del Prado offers a self-reflexive gaze on art and painting
- Rituals Cast in Brilliance–Chinese Bronzes Through the Ages
- Art in Quest of Heaven and Truth — Chinese Jades through the Ages
- J. Paul Getty Museum opens "Fashionable Likeness: Pastel Portraits in 18th-Century Britain"
- McCabe Fine Art opens exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe
- Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's sculptures on view at BOZAR
- Exhibition illuminates Syria's contributions to world heritage
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir retrospective opens in Spain
- Images of children in Spanish Romantic art on view at the Prado Museum in Madrid
- Exhibition pays tribute to one of the greatest art patrons of the early 20th century, Sergei Shchukin
22 septembre 2017
Pink spinel and diamond necklace
Lot 83. Burmese pink spinel and diamond necklace. Estimate HK$350,000 - 550,000 (US$45,000 - 70,500). Photo Tiancheng International
The openwork filigree necklace decorated with graduated oval pink spinels together weighing 69.62 carats, embellished with brilliant-cut diamonds together weighing approximately 9.35 carats, mounted in 18 karat white gold, length approximately 420mm.
Accompanied by LOTUS premium report numbered 7559-9362, dated 6 October 2015, stating that the 69.62 carat pink spinels ranging from 3.06... [Lire la suite]22 septembre 2017
Celebrations, discussions and unveilings: Demodernising the collection at Van Abbemuseum
Pablo Picasso, Femme en vert, 1909. Collection Van Abbemuseum. Photo: Peter Cox.
EINDHOVEN.- To officially open its new collection displays and to launch its three-year programme of exploration and transformation, the Van Abbemuseum is holding three days of activities, workshops and celebrations from 21 to 23 September 2017. Together with L'Internationale, a confederation of six modern and contemporary art institutions, the Van Abbemuseum is working to demodernise the museum, rearrange its permanent collections... [Lire la suite]22 septembre 2017
A large carved and moulded Longquan celadon 'floral' barbed-rim dish, Early Ming dynasty, 15th century
Lot 305. A large carved and moulded Longquan celadon 'floral' barbed-rim dish, Early Ming dynasty, 15th century; 13⅝ in. (34.7 cm.) diam., box. Estimation : HKD 100,000 - 150,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2017
The property of a Hong Kong private collector.
Christie's. Pavilion Online: Chinese Art, oct. 4 - 11, 201722 septembre 2017
A Longquan celadon rounded bowl, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)
Lot 304. A Longquan celadon rounded bowl, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), 7 in. (17.9 cm.) diam., box. Estimation : HKD 60,000 - HKD 80,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2017
Provenance: Mathias Komor, New York, no. J493
Christie's. Pavilion Online: Chinese Art, oct. 4 - 11, 201722 septembre 2017
A Yaozhou celadon carved foliate-rimmed jar, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
Lot 301. A Yaozhou celadon carved foliate-rimmed jar, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127), 4¾ in. (12 cm.) diam., box. Estimation : HKD 100,000 - 150,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2017
Provenance: Peter Scheinman (1923-2017) Collection, New York
Note: A piece of similar form but with a carved peony design to the body and a pierced ruyi aperture to the foot, from the Linyushanren collection, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 2 December 2015, lot 2803. A slightly larger Yaozhou jar also... [Lire la suite]22 septembre 2017
9 Lucio Fontana spatial environments reconstructed in full scale and presented together for the first time
Lucio Fontana, Ambiente spaziale con neon, 1967, reddish-purple neon tube © Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan. Photo by Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
MILAN.- Fontana’s “Spatial Environments” are considered the most innovative outcome of the theories about space that Lucio Fontana first expressed in his Manifiesto Blanco of 1946. Here and in later manifestos, he described a new form of visual representation linked to space and time, which would move past the classic materials of sculpture and painting and employ modern... [Lire la suite]21 septembre 2017
A Cizhou painted rectangular pillow, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)
Lot 350. A Cizhou painted rectangular pillow, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), 11¾ in. (29.7 cm.) long. Estimation : HKD 20,000 - 30,000 © Christie's Images Ltd 2017
The base is stamped with a partially legible mark reading ‘Made by xxx’.
Provenance: The property of Mr. Mark Lam.
Literature: Dream Quest: The Mark Lam Collection of Chinese Ceramic Pillows, Shanghai, 2008, pl. 39.
Christie's. Pavilion Online: Chinese Art, oct. 4 - 11, 2017
21 septembre 2017
A rare Qingbai iron-spot decorated ‘Xuanwu’ pillow, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
Lot 349. A rare Qingbai iron-spot decorated ‘Xuanwu’ pillow, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127), 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) long, box. Estimation : HKD 30,000 - 50,000 © Christie's Images Ltd 2017
Provenance: The property of Mr. Mark Lam.
Literature: Dream Quest: The Mark Lam Collection of Chinese Ceramic Pillows, Shanghai, 2008, pl. 4
Christie's. Pavilion Online: Chinese Art, oct. 4 - 11, 2017
21 septembre 2017
A Henan painted ‘floral’ bean-shaped pillow, Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)
Lot 346. A Henan painted ‘floral’ bean-shaped pillow, Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), 9⅝ in (24.5 cm) long. Estimation : HKD 40,000 - 60,000 © Christie's Images Ltd 2017
Provenance: The property of Mr. Mark Lam.
Literature: Dream Quest: The Mark Lam Collection of Chinese Ceramic Pillows, Shanghai, 2008, pl. 32
Christie's. Pavilion Online: Chinese Art, oct. 4 - 11, 2017
21 septembre 2017
A Cizhou sgraffito ‘Wave’ rectangular pillow, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
Lot 351. A Cizhou sgraffito ‘Wave’ rectangular pillow, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127), 10⅝ in. (27 cm.) long. Estimation : HKD 30,000 - 50,000 © Christie's Images Ltd 2017
Provenance: The property of Mr. Mark Lam.
Literature: Dream Quest: The Mark Lam Collection of Chinese Ceramic Pillows, Shanghai, 2008, pl. 41
Christie's. Pavilion Online: Chinese Art, oct. 4 - 11, 2017