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Giovanni Antonio Canaletto’s The Molo, Venice, from the Bacino di San Marco was the top lot at Christie’s sale of Old Master and British Paintings in London, selling for £8,461,875 against a top estimate of £6 million amid total sale proceeds of £23,852,300.
theartwolf.com
El Greco’s Saint Dominic in prayer and Canaletto’s The Molo, Venice led auctions in London for Sotheby’s and Christie’s respectively, with Saint Dominic in prayer achieving £9,154,500 and The Molo selling for £8,461,875.
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El Greco’s St Dominic In Prayer sold for £9.15 million at Sotheby’s in London, setting a record price for the Spanish painter. The sale also included another El Greco work, Christ on the Cross, which sold for £3.4 million, and contributed to proceeds of more than £12 million for UNICEF.
cadogantate.com
El Greco’s St Dominic in Prayer sold for more than $13 million (approximately £9.1 million) at Sotheby’s London Evening Sale of Old Masters & British Paintings, a record price for the Spanish artist. The painting, from the seventeenth century, depicts the Dominican founder kneeling in prayer before a crucifixion.
gallerix.org
El Greco’s Prayer of St. Dominic sold at Sotheby’s London for 9.15 million pounds (about 14 million USD, 10.75 million EUR), nearly doubling its 3-5 million pound estimate. A second El Greco work, Christ on the Cross, sold for 3.4 million pounds (about 5.2 million USD, 4 million EUR). Total Sotheby’s summer sale of old masters brought about 35 million pounds.
paulfrasercollectibles.com
Ben Nicholson’s Oct 61 (Mycenae-axe-blue) sold for £1m ($1.6m) at Sotheby’s Modern & Post-War British Art auction in London, achieving the top bids. The work measures about 4 1/2 m and is noted as the largest Nicholson work sold at auction; profits from the sale will support the Christian Theological Seminary. The transaction follows the artist’s prominence, alongside Hepworth and Moore, in the British avant-garde.
nytimes.com
Carol Vogel reports that Christie’s will offer works from dealer Jan Krugier’s estate, including his personal collection and inventory from his Geneva gallery, in a special auction in Manhattan on Nov. 4, with estimated proceeds exceeding $160 million and a following sale focused on works on paper and sculpture with around $15 million estimate; highlights include a 1911 Kandinsky landscape titled Herbstlandschaft with an estimated $20–$25 million.
artinvestment.ru
Caravaggio, Guercino and their contemporaries on display at the Hermitage; the exhibition features about 30 works from the Hermitage and Italian museums as part of the From Caravaggio to Guercino project, highlighting Sir Denis Mahon’s collection and Italian XVII century art.
museumpublicity.com
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC acquired new works spanning painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, illustrated books, and photography. The acquisitions include Jean-Léon Gérôme’s View of Medinet El-Fayoum, several firsts for the collection by Gerome and Cornelis Bega, a Florentine red wax relief after a model attributed to Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi, the Gallery’s first illustrated book by an Italian artist, significant old master drawings by Lattanzio Gambara and Alessandro Magnasco, two Robert Smithson sculptures, Sally Mann’s first works, a landmark Edward Weston photograph, a photogravure portfolio by Al Taylor, and Jasper Johns’ 1997 edition print Green Angel 2 with related proofs and copperplates.