Auctions - Finestre sull'Arte

Sotheby's Paris: record 89.7 million and a Modigliani sold for 27 million

During Art Basel Paris week, the energy surrounding the art market translated into an unprecedented result for Sotheby's Paris office. The auction house recorded its highest total ever in France for a combined sale of modern and surrealist art, with ...
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Solidarity auction in Rome: Arcadia raises over 2 million euros. A Soutine sold for over 600,000

Important results for theauction held last Oct. 21 in the halls of Casa d'Aste Arcadia in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome. The auction sale of 36 works belonging to the Charlemagne Foundation was held here, the proceeds of which will be entirely d...
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A still life by Vincent Van Gogh at auction at Sotheby's: a $40 million piece

An important work by Vincent van Gogh (Zunder, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890) will be featured in Sotheby's Modern Evening Auction, scheduled for November 2025 in New York. It is Romans Parisiens (Les Livres jaunes), a rare and luminous still life pai...
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Canaletto masterpiece sold at Christie's for £31 million

The Canaletto painting that was going up for auction late this afternoon at Christie's in London was sold for over £30 million. It was a masterpiece, for which there was great expectation: the work, The Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, one ...
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Missing Rodin sculpture authenticated and auctioned for 860,000 euros in France

It was considered a simple copy, but turned out to be an extremely rare original by Auguste Rodin (Paris, 1840 - Meudon, 1917) small marble sculpture titled Le Désespoir (The Despair), made in 1892, was recently authenticated and sold at aucti...
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Major online auction at Piguet's: Italian Old Masters for sale

Important online auction, June 5-18: Piguet Hôtel des Ventes auction house in Geneva is in fact organizing an auction spanning three centuries of Italian creativity. The Swiss maison is offering an exclusively online sale until June 18, culmina...
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Bolaffi Auctions brings to market, after more than 60 years, a rare work by Fernand Léger

Back on the market after more than sixty years is a rare work by Fernand Léger: Nature Morte (Contraste de formes), created between 1913 and 1914 using the technique of gouache and cardboard on paper brought back on board. The work is the cent...
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At auction at Sotheby's is the Giordano Collection, one of the most important existing collections of decorative arts

A significant part of Gianni Giordano's sumptuous collection, one of the most important existing collections of decorative arts, will be dispersed between today and tomorrow, November 26 and 27, 2024, in anauction at Sotheby 's in Paris. A collection...
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