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nytimes.com
Souren Melikian reports from London on Christie’s postwar and contemporary art auction where total sales reached £132.81 million ($207.33 million) with 9 of 69 lots unsold. Yves Klein’s Le Rose du bleu (RE 22) sold for £23.56 million and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s untitled 1981 work brought £12.92 million, marking new world records.
Christie’s
Christie’s reported £132.8 million for its London evening auction, led by Yves Klein’s Le Rose du bleu at £23.6 million and five new artist records.
archive.nytimes.com
Yves Klein and Jean-Michel Basquiat achieved record prices at Christie’s post-war and contemporary art auction in London. The sale totaled $207.3 million with Klein’s Le Rose du Bleu (RE 22) selling for $36.7 million and Basquiat’s 1981 canvas selling for $20.1 million.
antiquesandthearts.com
Joan Miró's 1927 painting Peinture (Étoile Bleue) sold at Sotheby’s London impressionist and modern art evening sale for $36,946,396, exceeding the prior auction record for the artist and the London sale record for the year, with the total sale realizing $117,680,965.
gallerix.org
Juan Miro’s Etoile Bleue (1927) was sold at Sotheby’s in London for almost 30 million euros, setting a new record for the artist’s paintings. The buyer was Andre Lefevre, and works by Picasso, Kandinsky, Bacon, Monet, Bonnard, Chagall and Dix were also shown at the auction.
benningviolins.com
Taisiya Sokolova, a violist, has acquired a viola crafted by Los Angeles violinmaker Eric Benning. Sokolova studies with Paul Coletti at the Colburn School and resides in Moscow, Russia. The instrument is described as one of Eric Benning's most recently completed violas.
benningviolins.com
Vincent Houser, a former student of Jascha Heifetz, purchases a Stradivarius-model violin crafted by Los Angeles maker Eric Benning. Houser is described as a longtime friend of Benning Violins, with Houser serving as Performing Arts Chairman at Buckley School and Orchestra Director for Art Deco Orchestra among other roles.
artinvestment.ru
Joan Miró Painting (Blue Star) (1927) sold at Sotheby’s in London for 23.6 million pounds, setting a new auction record for Miró. The sale was part of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern auction, with total auctioned value around 75 million pounds. Other notable lots included Pablo Picasso's Seated (1972) and Pierre Bonnard Standing naked (1931).
ts.fi
The Kulttuurirahasto has acquired a Stradivari violin from the collection of the late Paavo Berglund. The violin, built around 1700, is to be kept in Finland and will be known as ex Berglund; it will be one of three Stradivari violins in loan use in the country.
economictimes.indiatimes.com
Joan Miro's 1927 painting Peinture (Etoile Bleue) sold for £23,561,250 ($36,946,396/€29,260,764) at Sotheby’s London sale of Impressionist & Modern Art, shattering the artist’s previous record. The top lot contributed to a sale total of £75,046,850/$117,680,965/€93,200,835 and the year-to-date Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art sales worldwide to £435m/$692.6m/€504.2m.
archive.nytimes.com
Joan Miró’s 1927 painting Blue Star sold for nearly $37 million, setting a new artist record at auction. The sale helped lift Sotheby’s opening night in London, though many other Impressionist and modern works by Léger, Delvaux, Pissarro and Kandinsky failed to attract bids; the evening total was about $117.7 million with 15 of 48 works unsold.
reuters.com
Joan Miro painting Peinture (Etoile Bleue) sold for 23.6 million pounds ($36.9 million) at Sotheby’s in London, setting a new auction record for the artist. The overall impressionist and modern art sale raised 75.0 million pounds ($117.7 million) but fell short of expectations when buyers’ premiums are included.
hudelmayer.com
The page discusses a viola 16′ 40.4cm in Brescian style by instrument maker Andreas Hudelmayer, based in London.
reuters.com
Caravaggio's Resurrection of Lazarus, also known as The Raising of Lazarus, has been restored for the first time in 60 years and will be displayed in Rome's Palazzo Braschi before returning to Sicily; the painting was created around 1609 and depicts Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead.
reuters.com
Leopold Museum in Vienna settled with heirs of Jenny Steiner, and also reached settlements with the heirs of Daisy Hellmann and Klara Mertens regarding the Nazi-confiscated Egon Schiele painting Houses by the Sea. The museum previously paid $5 million to Steiner’s sole granddaughter, and hoped to fund settlements in other cases using the sale of another Schiele painting, Houses with Colourful Laundry, Suburb II, which sold for a record 24.7 million pounds in 2011.
artnews.com
Christie’s led the midseason Old Master sales with a $12.5 million evening auction, selling 82 percent by value of 98 lots. A restituted painting, Girolamo Romanino’s Christ Carrying the Cross, sold for $4.6 million with premium. Other top lots included Philippe de Champaigne’s The Holy Family with a Sparrow (sold for $578,500) and Hubert Robert’s The Ruins and The Old Bridge, which together sold for $1.9 million; the Met Museum sold 11 paintings as part of a fund-raising group totaling over $3 million.
Christie’s
Christie’s announced 45 works from Siggi and Sissy Loch’s collection, including art by Yves Klein, Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz, with proceeds benefiting the couple’s charitable foundation.
latimes.com
Steve Lopez reports on the 1996 theft of cellist Vahe Hayrikyan's cello and bows in Hollywood, and the emotional impact of the loss. The article details the instrument, its age and craftsmanship, and Hayrikyan's reaction to the theft.
museumpublicity.com
Robert Rauschenberg's Global Loft (Spread), 1979, was acquired by The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The work will be on view in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art starting July 5, 2012. The painting is described as a Spreads piece with fabric, paper collage, and other materials, and references images from space, nature, and landscape.
saratogian.com
The article describes Mark Wood teaching and rehearsing with the Saratoga Springs High School orchestra in preparation for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, with proceeds from ticket sales going to music education. Mark Wood, creator of the Viper electric violin and founder of Wood Violins, collaborates with orchestra director Brooke Vincent and the Saratoga Springs High School orchestra, including arrangements by Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and Cream.
paulfrasercollectibles.com
Louis-Philippe Sevres vases for King Louis-Philippe set a world record for 19th century French porcelain at Christie’s New York, selling for $902,500 after an 1,189% increase on the $50,000-70,000 estimate. The second pair from 1852 is in the Mobilier national gallery in Paris. The sale was part of a departmental focus on 500 years of decorative arts in Europe.
mult-kor.hu
Girolamo Romanino 16. századi Krisztust ábrázoló Cristo portacroce című festménye a Christie's New York-i árverésén rekordszintű összegért cserélt gazdát: 4,6 millió dollárért (1,1 milliárd forintnak megfelelő összegért). Az eladó Ferrero Gentili di Giuseppe örökösei, a mű a Gentili gyűjteményhez tartozott, majd a Milánóban őrzött Brera képtárból visszakerült az örökösökhöz, akik úgy döntöttek, hogy eladják. A licit összbevétel 12,5 millió dollár volt, több művészeti alkotás is felért a kiállított darabokra.
prnewswire.com
Michael Werner made a major gift of 130 works from his collection to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, with an accompanying exhibition at the museum from 5 October 2012 to 3 March 2013. Artists mentioned include Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Gaston Chaissac, André Derain, Otto Freundlich, Étienne-Martin, Robert Filliou, Antonius Höckelmann, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, Bernard Réquichot, Niele Toroni and Don Van Vliet.
prnewswire.com
Michael Werner donated 130 works from his collection to the Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris. An exhibition of works from the collection will be shown at the museum from 5 October 2012 to 3 March 2013. The gift includes works by Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Gaston Chaissac, André Derain, Otto Freundlich, Étienne-Martin, Robert Filliou, Antonius Höckelmann, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, Bernard Réquichot, Niele Toroni and Don Van Vliet.