Christie’s June 5 Old Master sale in New York will be led by Gerrit van Honthorst’s The Duet, “a significant work with an exceptionally distinguished Russian provenance, which includes the collection of Count Alexander Stroganov, art advisor to Catherine the Great, as well as the Hermitage Museum,” according to a release. It was also looted Read More
The lyrics for an unreleased Bob Dylan song, “Go Away You Bomb,” will be auctioned at Christie’s on June 26. The song, according to Rolling Stone, was written by Mr. Dylan for Izzy Young of the Greenwich Village Folklore Center in 1963. The lyrics sat in a drawer in Mr. Young’s house in Stockholm Read More
We were as excited as anybody about this week’s $15.2 million Sotheby’s auction in Doha, but Georgina Adam at the Financial Times did some snooping and found that there might not be much to learn about the region from those results. Read More
A sale at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Doha last night achieved a total of $15,199,750, the highest price ever for an auction of contemporary art in the Middle East. Read More
At a June 4 sale from “The Library of a Distinguished American Book Collector,” Sotheby’s New York will have seven books from George Washington’s Mount Vernon Library, each signed by the president. Read More
Christie’s has planned a major philanthropic auction with the actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation that is estimated to raise between $15 and $20 million to benefit what a leaked promotional item called “compelling environmental projects selected by [the foundation] and Christie’s.” Early talks had the auction scheduled for May 8 and a source close to the auction said it will reportedly feature work by Mark Grotjahn, Carol Bove, John Currin and Elizabeth Peyton, among others. (Visitors to Ms. Peyton’s recently opened exhibition at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise may have noticed a portrait of Mr. DiCaprio in the show.) Read More
On June 11, Sotheby’s will auction “Property from the Descendants of William Faulkner,” a selection of the author’s letters, manuscripts and drawings. Included among them are an unpublished short story, Faulkner’s hand-written acceptance speech for the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as an assortment of correspondence to friends and family. Read More
At its Magnificent Jewels sale, Sotheby’s Geneva is auctioning off pieces from the collection of actress and artist Gina Lollobrigida. She appeared in such films as Beat the Devil, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the aptly titled The World’s Most Beautiful Woman. Read More
Portions of the archive of Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel and the main character in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, will hit the block at Swann Auction Galleries on April 16. Read More
