Click here to view highlights from the auction room, where the Mark McDonald collection was offered at Sotheby’s New York headquarters on March 10th.

This April, Sotheby’s Hong Kong is privileged to present at an evening auction an extraordinary private collection of contemporary Chinese Art that typifies the birth and evolution of the Chinese Avant-Garde. Highlights of the Collection include seminal works from Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guanyi and Zheng Peili.

Sotheby’s sale of the celebrated collection of Islamic and Indian Art assembled by the late scholar and collector Stuart Cary Welch (1928-2008) will take place in two parts, with Part One, Arts of the Islamic World, taking place on 6 April, and Part Two, Arts of India, taking place on 31 May. Assembled over a period of half a century, this remarkable collection reflects the passion and taste of a true scholar-connoisseur, and includes a fascinating range of paintings, calligraphy and works of art from the Islamic and Indian traditions.

Among a host of highly important and rare items to be offered in Part One is an illustrated leaf from one of the most famous illustrated Persian manuscripts ever produced, the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, depicting Faridun in the Guise of a Dragon Tests His Sons (lot 78). This magnificent royal manuscript is acknowledged as one of the supreme illustrated manuscripts of any period or culture.

Marketplace Auction March 23rd & 24th, 2011

Building upon the very strong results of Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art sales worldwide, Sotheby’s New York continues its commitment to presenting the finest and rarest examples of Chinese art to the market. One of the outstanding highlights of the sale on March 23rd is an Imperial battle painting commemorating the victory over Nian rebel forces, commissioned by the Guangxu Emperor. Two highlights from the ceramics section are an exquisite 14th Century white ewer, and a Qianlong mark and period reticulated revolving vase. Also included in this season’s sale is an Imperial ‘zitan’ long table, adorned with finely carved leaf-tip scrolls; a rare celadon jade brushpot carved in deep relief with ‘Hundred Boys’; and an album by Dong Qichang transcribing the biography of Wang Xiangqian’s family.

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Phillips de Pury & Company announces highlights from its Under the Influence auction in New York. Included will be Stephen Colbert’s portrait re-contextualized by Shepard Fairey, Andres Serrano, and discussed by Steve Martin and Frank Stella.

Also featuring works by:

KEHINDE WILEY, ARANDALASCH, ANSELM REYLE,

STERLING RUBY, SUBODH GUPTA, JACOB KASSAY, MARK

GROTJAHN, DAN COLEN, KAREN KLIMNIK

Auction Thursday March 10th, 2011

Featuring early slavery relics, including a carved Ballast Stone from a 16th-century ship wreck, as well as a large collection of materials related to Frederick Douglass.

The Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts department at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers specializes in offering an array of property guaranteed to draw both experienced and emerging collectors from around the world.  The auctions are held four times a year and feature fine selections consigned by estates, private individuals, museums and institutions from across the country.  Each encompasses centuries of craftsmanship, design, innovation, and evolution from across the world and includes American, English and Continental Furniture and Decorative Arts; Twentieth Century Decorative Arts; Asian Works of Art; and Rugs, Carpets and Textiles.