8 avril 2015

Diamond Necklace. Estimate 1,000,000 — 1,500,000 HKD. Lot sold 2,000,000 HKD (187,617 EUR). Photo courtesy Sotheby's Suspending graduated cascading fringes to the front, set with brilliant-cut, marquise-, pear-shaped and baguette diamonds together weighing approximately 100.00 carats, mounted in platinum, length approximately 410mm. Accompanied by eight GIA reports, stating that the eight diamonds ranging from 3.01 carats to 1.00 carat are D to F colour, VS1 to SI1 clarity. Sotheby's.... [Lire la suite]

A wooden statue of Guanyin, China, Song-Yuan Dynasty. Estimate : 30 000 € / 35 000 €. Photo courtesy Florence Number Nine Srl Splendid polychrome wood sculpture portraying the seated deity in a contemplation and richly dressed. Superbly carved, it presents ample traces of the original polychrome and glass eyes. h 83 cm  FLORENCE NUMBER NINE SRL, le 09 Avril 2015 à 13h30. Vente Online sur le site http://www.florencenumbernine.com/

Lucas Cranach the Elder, "Adam" and "Eve"  (pair), c. 1530. Norton Simon Art Foundation Pasadena - The Norton Simon Museum will face continued legal action over ownership of a pair of 16th-century Adam and Eve paintings. The works by Lucas Cranach the Elder were looted by the Nazis, and bear a complicated provenance that stretches to the Russian Revolution. Since the 1970s, the pair has hung in the Pasadena museum. In a ruling in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday, Judge John Walter denied the... [Lire la suite]

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Portrait de Marten Soolmans & Portrait de Oopjen Coppit, épouse de Marten Soolmans, 1634. Paris, collection Éric de Rothschild. PARIS - Two portraits by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn may leave France as the cash-strapped state and the Louvre both cite a lack of funds to retain them. Owned by French banker and wine-making baron Eric de Rothschild, the pair of masterworks may be sold abroad for as much as 150 million euros ($163 million). The portraits of Marten... [Lire la suite]

Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877), La Bohémienne et ses enfants, oil on canvas. Painted in 1853-1854. Estimate: $1,800,000 – 2,500,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2015. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces the spring sale of 19th Century European Art on April 28. This carefully curated auction boasts a superb selection of paintings by Federico Zandomengeghi, Gustave Courbet, and Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, among others as well as a strong collection of Barbizon, French Academic, Victorian, Orientalist and Maritime... [Lire la suite]

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Composition No. III (Composition with Red, Blue, Yellow and Black), oil on canvas, 1929 (estimate: $15-25 million). Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2015. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced further highlights from its major Spring sales of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York this May. Works by the most celebrated artists of the era will be offered for sale across two Evening Sales, two Day sales, and one companion Online-Only sale this season, making it one of the largest and most diverse... [Lire la suite]

Claude Monet (1840-1926), Les Meules à Giverny, oil on canvas, painted in 1885 | $12,000,000- 18,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2015.  NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will present Claude Monet’s Les meules à Giverny (Haystacks at Giverny), as a highlight of its spring Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in New York, taking place on 14 May. This idyllic, summertime view of the countryside in Giverny where Monet made his home is an important precursor to the iconic Haystacks series of 1890-91. Estimated at... [Lire la suite]

A rare blue and white  'Lingzhi' dish, Ming Dynasty, Chenghua-Hongzhi period. Estimate 400,000 — 600,000 HKD. Unsold. Photo courtesy Sotheby's potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a slightly everted rim, the interior with a slightly convex centre and decorated in underglaze blue with a medallion enclosing curling leafy stems bearing lingzhi blooms, the exterior similarly painted with a band of scrolling lingzhi stems, all between two double-line... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3721. A rare blue and white 'Phoenix' basin, Mark and period of Kangxi. Estimate 480,000 — 550,000 HKD. Unsold. Photo courtesy Sotheby's sturdily potted with steep rounded sides rising to a flat everted mouthrim, the interior vividly painted with a medallion enclosing a long-tailed phoenix soaring amidst dense cloud scrolls, surrounded by a frieze similarly decorated with phoenix and clouds around the well, the rim with a leafy lotus scroll within a brown-edged border, the exterior... [Lire la suite]

A rare blue and white 'Lotus' alms bowl, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period. Estimate 800,000 — 1,200,000  HKD. Unsold. Photo courtesy Sotheby's well potted with deep tapering sides supported on a rounded base, the exterior painted in cobalt-blue with large lotus blossoms wreathed by meandering leafy scrolls issuing smaller lotus buds and curling tendrils below a stylised pendent lappet band, a 'classic scroll' band circling the rim; 26.1 cm., 10 1/4  in. Notes: Delicately painted with a leafy... [Lire la suite]