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Salvador Dalí portrait of estranged sister Ana Maria up for auction

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Figura de Perfil, painted a few years before the siblings’ relationship disintegrated, expected to fetch up to £1.2m at Bonhams

Sotheby’s creates a Global Luxury & Lifestyle Division

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Sotheby’s, the British multinational corporation headquartered in New York City, is uniting its jewelry, watches, wine, cars, and realty divisions under one umbrella. The company announced the appointment of Maarten ten Holder as global Managing Director of the Company’s new Luxury & Lifestyle Division. An accomplished auctioneer, Maarten regularly conducts sales in all of Sotheby’s major … Read more

Christie’s maintains global leadership Position in the art business

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30% of all buyers were new with many initiating activity through digital art sales (20%). Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, entered its 250th year, by announcing a total of £4.8 billion / $7.4 billion in sales for the last twelve months. 2015 sales were down 5% (by£) for the same period in 2014. The … Read more

Fendi, Miu Miu, Giorgio Armani, and Prada fashion show seats up for grabs in charity auction

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Prada, Giorgio Armani, Fendi, and Miu Miu fashion experiences up under the hammer. Typically restricted to buyers, press and celebrities, the fashion show seats are now placed up under the hammer. The full front-row experience at Milan Fashion Week next February is offered as a charity auction lot to benefit the Long Island, NY arts … Read more

The blooming art business. Top ten lots for Christie’s in a record half year of art sales

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It is a new era of excitement and engagement about art and for art. Art business globally shows no signs of slowing down. Christie’s auction house reported record half year in the art sales, with 51 works of art being sold for over $10 million, and record breaking six months in Post-War & Contemporary Art. The … Read more

40 fashion photographs in artnet’s Focus on Fashion

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  40 fabulous fashion photographs from the classic to the Contemporary are featured in Focus on Fashion, a sale on artnet Auctions. The sale includes work by early innovators in fashion photography such as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Helmut Newton, as well as Contemporary masters who have pushed the boundaries of the medium, including … Read more