Click here to browse through the catalogue for the Arts and Crafts in Rago’s No Reserve Discovery Auction.  Auction to be held April 8th at 9:00 am.

Click here to browse through the catalogue for Rago’s upcoming Pottery and Porcelain Estates Auction.  The auction will be held April 9th at 11:00 am.

Sotheby’s held 3 amazing auctions for Asia Week, and are now eager to show everyone the results of these spectacular auctions!  Results for the following auctions can be seen by clicking the name of the auction(s) that interests you:

Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art

Informing the Eye of the Collector: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from J.T. Tai & Co.

Harmony of Form, Serenity of Color: A Private Collection of ‘Song’ Ceramics

New York – Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce the highlights
of the forthcoming Photographs sale on Saturday 9 April 2011, to be held at its
Park Avenue location.

Highlights of the New York Photographs sale include: Cindy Sherman’s
Untitled #278, 1993, estimated at $200,000-$300,000, exemplifying the famed
photographer’s poignant critiques of the fashion industry, juxtaposed by one of
the most revered images in classic fashion photography: Irving Penn’s
Woman in Palace (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn) Marrakech, Morocco, 1951, estimated
at $80,000-$120,000, which commemorates the most dynamic fashion duo of its
era. Additional highlights include: Florian Maier-Aichen’s Untitled, 2005,
estimated at $80,000-$120,000, which majestically depicts the awe-inspiring Mt.
Williamson; Robert Mapplethorpe’s Flag, 1987, estimated at $70,000-$90,000,
which ranks among the photographer’s most celebrated images for its solemn
reverence; Diane Arbus’s A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx,
N.Y., 1970, estimated at $60,000-$80,000; Edward Weston’s Nude, New Mexico,
1937, estimated at $50,000-$70,000; Peter Beard’s Tsavo North on the Athi Tiva,
circa 150 lbs.-160 lbs. side Bull Elephant, February, 1965, estimated at $50,000-
$70,000; and Richard Avedon’s Bob Dylan, Singer, 132nd Street and FDR Drive,
November 4, 1963, estimated at $40,000-$60,000.

Sotheby’s forthcoming auction of Russian Art in New York will feature paintings and works of art with exceptional provenance and art historical importance. The paintings on offer will be led by works from iconic Russian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including 19th-century masters Ivan Aivazovsky, Isaac Levitan and Henryk Siemiradzki. Petr Petrovich Vereshchagin’s View of St. Petersburg, one of the most magnificent cityscapes by the artist ever to appear at auction, will be sold by Mikhail Baryshnikov to benefit the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Several other significant works come to auction directly from private collections, including Nicholas Roerich’s extremely rare design for The Novgorod Market from Sadko, 1920, as well as Boris Grigoriev’s extraordinarily dramatic Still Life with Candle and Pot from the mid-1920s. A series of four superb works by Socialist Realist painter Yuri Pimenov will also be offered, led by The Pianist, a highly dynamic work from the earliest and most revolutionary period of the artist’s career, as well as Worker’s Brigade, a composition closely related in style and subject matter to the artist’s monumental First of May Celebration, 1950, which achieved the record-setting price of $1,538,500 at Sotheby’s New York last November.

Preview begins Saturday April 2nd, 2011

Catalogue Now Online

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ Fine Books and Manuscripts department conducts regularly scheduled auctions of collections large and small consigned by individuals, estates and institutions. Our auctions feature a variety of rare and antiquarian books and manuscripts, with areas of interest including Natural History, Science, Exploration, Americana, Fine Bindings and Leather Bound Sets, Continental Books, Fine Printings, Artist’s Books, Literary First Editions, and significant Literary or Historical Autographs and Archives. The Fine Books and Manuscripts department also handles consignments of Illuminated Manuscripts, Maps, Atlases and Historical, Botanical and Ornithological Prints.

Click here to view the entire catalogue for the Modern Smalls in Rago’s No Reserve Discovery Auction

Click here to view results for The Pearl Canopy of Baroda auction

Click here to view results for the Indian & Southeast Asian Works of Art

Click here to view results for the Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art

Among the highlights of the spring Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sale is a selection of Imperial porcelain vases.  A rare pair of gold enameled archaistic vases imitating bronze hu vessels, produced for the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736-95) epitomizes the opulence of his reign.  The pair of vases appears to be unique and no other examples are recorded.

As always, the Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sale in Hong Kong this spring will bring only the finest and rarest objects to the market.  Through the many pieces of historical treasures offered in this sale, collector can trace the splendors of the archaic Chinese art.

Click here to browse the full catalogue online