Sotheby’s London – Contemporary Art / Turkish

March 15th, 2012 by

This week of sales will combine Arts of the Islamic World, Orientalist Paintings and Contemporary Turkish Art, as well as a remarkable single-owner collection of Ottoman art entitled An Eye for Opulence: Art of the Ottoman Empire.

This dedicated sale, comprising all aspects of Ottoman craftsmanship, as well as European paintings and Turqueries, presents wonderful opportunities for both the dedicated collector of Ottoman art and for those passionate about great design and sumptuous decoration.

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Sotheby’s London – Modern & Post-War British Art

March 14th, 2012 by

The department offers the best of British paintings, drawings and sculpture from throughout the 20th century. Beginning with the ground-breaking Edwardians, such as Augustus John and William Nicholson, we pass through the Modernist and Surrealist years between the World Wars, through Neo-Romanticism, the realism and abstraction of the 1950s, the birth of Pop and right up to the present day.

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Sotheby’s Geneva – Jewels from the Personal Collection of Suzanne Belperron

March 14th, 2012 by

The personal jewellery collection of arguably the most important female jewellery designer of the 20th century, Suzanne Belperron (1900-1983), will be sold in Geneva on the 14th of May 2012. Comprising over 50 lots, this unprecedented sale features the most significant group of jewels by Belperron ever to appear on the market. This collection includes some of her most celebrated designs and also very intimate items which illustrate her unique style and creative virtuosity.

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Rago Arts and Auction Center – 20th C. Decorative Arts and Furnishings

March 14th, 2012 by

Consignments welcome until April 16th, 2012.

Saturday, June 16: Early 20th Century Design

Sunday, June 17: Modern/ 20-21st Century.

 

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Swann Galleries – The Eric C. Caren Collection: How History Unfolds on Paper, Part II

March 14th, 2012 by

This is the second sale of material from Eric Caren’s collection, which aims to document every important event in modern history through books, manuscripts, autographs, photographs, posters and ephemera that span the 16th century through the 1970s.

Highlights include:

American Indian portraits by some significant photographers, including Edward S. Curtis, Frank Rinehart and David Barry, who shot the image shown top left, a boudoir card portrait of Good Horse and his wife, 1900s-10s.

Theodor de Bry’s Admiranda Narratio Fida Tamen, the first Latin edition of the first volume of De Bry’s Great Voyages, Frankfurt, 1590.

A large selection of 1960’s and 70’s anti-war and rock and roll posters.

Presidents of the United States, a chromolithograph by Augustus Feusier, 1861, shown left, and other material relating to Presidents, including an early photographic portrait of Lincoln before he was President.

Broadsides, including the first printing of the first act of secession, printed fifteen minutes after the final vote, Charleston Mercury Extra, 20 December 1860.

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Sotheby’s – Masterpieces of African Art from the Collection of the Late Werner Muensterberger

March 9th, 2012 by

Born in Dortmund, Germany, Werner Muensterberger (1913-2011) started collecting African art as a teenager, inspired to do so by his godfather, the renowned collector Baron Eduard von der Heydt.  Muensterberger held three PhDs, in psychiatry, anthropology, and art history, and specialized in psychoanalytic anthropology.  He was the author of several important early publications on African, Oceanic, and Native American art, including The Sculpture of Primitive Man (1955) and Universality of Tribal Art (1979); as well as Collecting: An Unruly Passion (1995), examining the psychology of the collector.  The auction features a small group of masterpieces acquired during a lifetime of collecting.  The sale is led by Muensterberger’s iconic Luluwa Helmet Mask, famous for its superb quality and monumental scale (estimate $1.5-2.5 million).

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Sotheby’s – Distinctive Styles

March 9th, 2012 by

 

This spring, Sotheby’s is delighted to offer a joint single-owner sale of fine English and European decorative arts from the estate of Roger Rechler and the Collection of Dorothy and Wendell Cherry.  Each of these collectors had a distinctive style favoring English, French and Continental furniture and decorative arts which transformed two rather different interiors, namely a fine formal townhouse in New York City’s Upper East Side and a beautiful turn-of-the-century Southern Colonial villa situated in idyllic Kentucky horse country.  Whilst building such distinctive collections, both collectors shared a passion for breeding and showing dogs, many of which lovingly shared their lives and their homes.

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Leslie Hindman Auctioneers – Fine Jewelry and Timepieces Auction

March 9th, 2012 by

Catalogue for this auction is now available online.

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Sotheby’s New York – Photographs

March 7th, 2012 by

Sotheby’s was the first international auction house to offer regular sales of Photographs, beginning in 1971 in London, 1975 in New York, and 2002 in Paris. We sell photographs from the entire history of the medium, from salt prints and daguerreotypes of the 1840s to contemporary works of the present decade.  Included in our auctions are works by a roster of blue-chip photographers from around the globe, from William Henry Fox Talbot in London, to Eugene Atget in Paris, to Richard Prince in New York.

Our international team, the most experienced and highly regarded specialists in the auction world, has established itself as a leader in scholarship and evaluation.  Their passion and expertise have resulted in dozens of world records for individual photographers, brought new categories of work to the public’s eye, and defined many of the market criteria against which photographs and collections are judged.

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Leslie Hindman Auctioneers – Markerplace Auction

March 7th, 2012 by

Catalogue for this auction is now available online.

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