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Author Christopher Mason, who was in the Sotheby’s New York salesroom yesterday, captured the moment when the hammer went down on Modigliani’s Portrait de Paulette Jourdain. The painting led the $377 million “Masterworks” sale, which kicked off the auction house’s fall season as well a series of four auctions offering the 500-lot collection of A. Alfred Taubman, a shopping mall magnate and former Sotheby’s chairman, who died earlier this year.
The red carpet was unfurled outside of the auction h…
over 8 years ago
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Sotheby’s sold the eccentric work of art commissioned by a San Francisco millionairess for nearly three times its estimated value
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For the first time Sotheby’s partners with an interior designer to showcase the lots in its biannual decorative arts sale in New York City
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More than 30 landscape paintings owned by the Microsoft cofounder—including works by Cézanne, Monet, and Turner—will be part of a traveling exhibition
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Christie’s is selling a Louis XVI gilt-wood chair once owned by Marie Antoinette
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In his autobiography, Keith Haring wrote: “You see, whatever I’ve done would not have been possible without Andy. Had Andy not broken the concept of what art is supposed to be, I just wouldn’t have been able to exist.” The Andy he refers to is, of course, Andy Warhol. The two met after Warhol’s second exhibition in New York at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in 1984. And in 1986, Haring created the Andy Mouse set of four screen prints—immortalizing Warhol with a character inspired by the artists’ mutu…
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On May 11, Bonhams New York will offer an an important collection of Madoura ceramics by Pablo Picasso in its “Post-War & Contemporary Prints & Multiples” sale. Inspired by the palette of the Mediterranean landscape, Picasso began making ceramics in the South of France in the late 1940s. It was during this period that he met Suzanne and Georges Ramie, owners of the Madoura ceramics studio in Vallauris. For the next 25 years, the artist returned annually to work at the studio. Many of the 23 Pica…
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Bergdorf Goodman shares recipes from fashion insiders and its iconic café in a new book
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A new book from Rizzoli showcases Japanese screens, prints, and artworks inspired by the cherry blossom Cherry Blossoms, a High Fence, and Retainers, circa 1590–1640, style of Tawaraya Sotatsu. Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, gold, and silver on paper. Photo courtesy of Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Avenue of Cherry Trees, 1935, Yoshida Hiroshi. Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Photo courtesy of Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Spring Shower at Shiba Park, 1921,…
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There is a new auction record for the highest sale by a living European artist
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Ordinarily, Louisa Guinness’s London gallery is the only place you can go to admire a collection of artist-designed jewelry by 20th-century masters like Picasso, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and Man Ray, as well as present-day stars such as Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, and Anish Kapoor. Until next week, that is. At New York’s Armory Show, opening March 4, Guinness will host the first in a series of pop-up jewelry shows around the world.
“Pop-ups are a great way for us to keep up with our international aud…
over 9 years ago
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In 1904 Marblehead Pottery was established as part of a therapy program developed by Herbert J. Hall, M.D., for patients with nervous disorders. After Hall sold the company more than a decade later, it remained a small operation of six craftspeople. Marblehead Pottery closed in 1936.
Actor Bruce Willis has amassed a substantial collection of the ceramics, which are characterized by green and blue glazes with a matte finish. Bonhams is offering 25 lots, some of which have already sold.
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This late-20th-century salt and pepper shaker set, designed to look like a poppy plant sprouting from the base, was produced by Ilario Pradella for Buccellati in Milan. The Buccellati brand has long been known for its expertly crafted silver collection. The poppy pods hold the salt and pepper and detach for use.
Set of Buccellati salt and pepper shakers, 7.5″ h. x 5.25″ w.; New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, October 11; estimate $1,200 to $1,800. neworleansauction.com
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A preview of selected lots from sales around the world
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A group exhibition by ten contemporary American artists hits the streets of New York City
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Host of Million Dollar Contractor on DIY Network and HGTV, Stephen Fanuka frequently works with leading architects and designers as a contractor on high-end projects. His attention to detail comes from years of training as a master craftsman. Last week, Fanuka guided participants of Cadillac’s Driven by Design, an event co-sponsored by Architectural Digest, through a Chelsea townhouse he recently renovated. After the tour, Fanuka shared some tips for renovations with the editors of AD.
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Baroness Philippine de Rothschild, principal of the French winery Château Mouton Rothschild, died Friday, August 22. She was 80 years old.
Until 1924, the estate’s wine was sold in casks, but that year Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Baroness Philippine’s father, made a radical shift, bottling the entire vintage before it left the property. Then, he commissioned poster designer Jean Carlu to create the first Château Mouton Rothschild wine bottle label, in what would become a tradition carried on b…
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Naming new flowers for famous people is an age-old tradition that bestows honor on the namesake and—provided the plant breeder is a savvy handicapper of celebrity staying power—enduring interest in the bloom. In the early 1800s, Empress Joséphine of France, a renowned rose aficionado, named hybrids after members of her inner circle. In the 1930s, when horticulturists in the U.S. discovered a new rose breed, it was promptly dubbed ‘Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.’
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