19 février 2014

Alexandre Reza Spring/Summer 2014 Collection. Pear-shaped diamond ring. Alexandre Reza Spring/Summer 2014 Collection. Emerald and diamond parure. Alexandre Reza Spring/Summer 2014 Collection. Ruby and diamond earrings Alexandre Reza Spring/Summer 2014 Collection. Sapphire and diamond earrings Alexandre Reza Spring/Summer 2014 Collection. Pink diamond and emerald ring. Alexandre Reza Spring/Summer 2014 Collection. Blackened gold and diamond earrings Alexandre Reza Spring/Summer 2014 Collection. Ruby and diamond... [Lire la suite]

Ary Bitter (French, 1883-1973), A pair of bronze modelled elephant bookends, circa 1920, Photo: Bonhams. LONDON - The world's largest known collection of Art Deco bookends is to be sold at Bonhams in London. The vast collection of 180 pairs will be offered over two sales, the first being the 2nd April Decorative Arts sale at Bonhams, Knightsbridge. Classic Art Deco designs in bronze, glass, iron and marble are sculpted into animal form – elephants, pelicans and swallows – as well as nude maidens. Estimates range from... [Lire la suite]

David Hockney R.A. (British, born 1937) Room with a View 40.6 x 50.8 cm. (16 x 20 in.). estimated to sell for £150,000 to £200,000. Photo: Bonhams LONDON - Two powerful images by David Hockney RA, (b 1937), Britain's best known and most admired living artist, lead Bonhams next sale of Modern British and Irish art on May 28 in New Bond Street. Neither have ever been on the market before as they were given by the artist to the current owner. The first painting, titled, 'Room with a View', is a boldly coloured work, an oil on... [Lire la suite]

  Cloisonné Plaque with Mount Fuji, 1893 (Meiji 26). Namikawa Sōsuke (1847–1910). Cloisonné; 113.6 x 64 cm. Tokyo National Museum, G-603. Important Cultural Property. CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art presents Remaking Tradition: Modern Art of Japan from the Tokyo National Museum, featuring fifty-five masterpieces of modern Japanese art from the late nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, including six Important Cultural Properties of Japan designated by the Japanese government. Drawn exclusively from the holdings of... [Lire la suite]

Egg with model of the cruiser “Memory of Azov” (671 KB). Presented by Emperor Alexander III to his wife, Maria Feodorovna, at Easter 1891. Saint Petersburg, 1891. House of C. Fabergé, Artist: M. Perkhin. Heliotrope, aquamarine, brilliants, rose-cut diamonds, gold, ruby, platinum, silver, velvet - egg: 9,3 х 7 cm, model: h. 4 cm, l.7 cm © The Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Museum and Heritage Site VIENNA.- As part of the Austro-Russian Cultural Season the... [Lire la suite]

Rahu. Central Tibet. Ca. 1400. Gilt copper alloy with inlays of semiprecious stones. 21½ x 19¼ x 7 in. (54.6 x 48.9 x 17.8 cm). Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of the 1999 Collectors Committee (AC1999.58.1). Digital Image © 2013 Museum Associates / LACMA. Licensed by Art Resource, NY.  NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Society presents the first exhibition to explore the history, iconography, and extraordinary artistic production associated with the central Tibetan Buddhist monastery called Densatil that was destroyed during China’s... [Lire la suite]

Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533 © The National Gallery, London. 'Strange: unusual or surprising; difficult to understand or explain'  'Beauty: a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, which please the aesthetic senses, especially the sight'  Oxford English Dictionary, 2013  LONDON - What exactly makes a work of art beautiful? And how can this perception radically alter due to the changing world its viewer is living in? These are the intriguing questions being posed by... [Lire la suite]