New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Art has always been an enduring bet. The Rs.2,000-crore (Rs.20-billion) Indian art market managed to hold its own despite a 30 percent drop in prices in the first and second quarter of 2009.
Purging mediocre art and small-time investors, the market corrected artificially inflated prices, found new ways to reach out [...]
London, November 19 (ANI): Art auction house Sotheby’s recently sold a rare 2.52 carat green diamond to an anonymous buyer for a whopping 2.05 million euros.
It is apparently the highest sum a vivid green diamond has ever fetched.
Also, Duchess of Roxburghe’s jewelry, ageing back to 1884, was sold for 3.86 million euros.
It included a diamond [...]
New York, Nov 12 (DPA) A silk-screen painting by iconic American pop artist Andy Warhol sold for $43.8 million Wednesday night in New York, Sotheby’s auction house said.
The work, 200 One Dollar Bills, was one of the first silk-screen paintings by Warhol, 1928-87.
The painting was estimated by the auction house at $8 million to $12 [...]
London, Oct.28 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil was given Mahatma Gandhi’s memorabilia here on Wednesday in a ceremony held at India House (Indian High Commission) by two Indian-origin industrialists Ghulam Noon and Nathu Ram Puri.
President Patil, speaking on this occasion, [...]
New York, October 13 (ANI): Supermodel Stephanie Seymour’s 1992 photo snapped by famous photographer Richard Avedon has been auctioned off for a whopping 46875 dollars.
The portrait fetched more than the speculated price of 20000 to 30000 dollars, at the Sotheby’s auction house.
The beauty’s ex-husband Peter Brand, an avid art collector, sold the pic, reports the [...]
Hong Kong, Oct 7 (DPA) A piece of graffiti by Hong Kong’s self-proclaimed ‘King of Kowloon’ has sold for a record 500,000 Hong Kong dollars ($65,000), auction house Sotheby’s confirmed Wednesday.
The piece by the late Tsang Tsou-choi, featuring rows of Chinese calligraphy on canvas, attracted fierce bidding in Sotheby’s Asian art auction Tuesday.
It finally went [...]
London, Aug.16 (ANI): A newly discovered catalogue of artworks stolen by the Nazis and compiled for Adolf Hitler could help unravel the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the lost masterpieces.
Robert Edsel, an author and art historian [...]
London, Aug 14 (ANI): The unpublished lyrics of late ‘Beatle’ John Lennon, believed to have been written about 40 years ago, have gone on display for the first time.
The lyrics, written on a postcard, form part of an exhibition at The Beatles Story in Liverpool, put together by his first wife, Cynthia, and son, Julian.
Lennon’s [...]
