This special auction of art from the Kraft Bretschneider Collection in Tübingen will focus on important German Informel works. The choice offering of classic post-war art is headed by Emil Schumacher’s “Mabudan”. Painted (1965) in oil with collaged canvas on canvas, this work carries an estimate of € 150 000-250 000. Measuring 77 x 179 [...]

On 29 November Ketterer Kunst opens the doors of its new Munich headquarters.
Covering some 3500 square meters and three floors, the new house for art in the immediate vicinity of Neue Messe Munich comprises a state-of-the-art auction room, a generous amount of exhibition space, an art lounge with a readers’ corner, a coffee bar [...]

A 1493 first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle is for auction at Heritage’s Dallas. Texas, headquarters, as part of the Grand Format Rare Books Auction on Oct. 16
This early secular history of the world was printed at a time when the Western world’s idea of itself was rapidly expanding. Christopher Columbus had sailed for the [...]

The first central European auction of quality English thoroughbreds took place in Pardubice, Czech Republic last Friday.
Horse breeders could purchase thoroughbreds for their stables in Pardubice for the first time in 30 years in the auction that was held two days before the Grand Pardubice steeplechase.
“I firmly believe that the auction will help increase the [...]

A German court in Munich has suspended the sale of an ancient Iranian relic, belonging to the Elamite civilization, PressTV reported.
The silver cup, which dates backs to around 2,000 BCE and bears cuneiform inscriptions, went under hammer in Munich on June 22, 2007 for over $80,000.
?The German embassy notified the Iranian government about the auction [...]

Handwritten lyrics for Jacques Brel’s song, “Amsterdam”, have fetched more than 108,000 euros at a Paris auction.
The words were scribbled in a school notebook which was one of 95 lots for auction at a Sotheby’s Paris auction held 30 years after Brel’s death on October 9, 1978.
Brel’s widow and three daughters, who hold full rights [...]

Moscow based Mercury Group has bought a majority stake in Phillips de Pury & Co.
In 1999 Phillips was acquired by Bernard Arnault, chairman of Louis Vuitton Möet Hennessey, who appointed the art dealers Simon de Pury and Daniella Luxembourg to run it. Mr. de Pury later took majority control and moved its main offices to [...]

The Spanish Art Sale held by Christie’s in Madrid totaled €5.575.450/£4,404,606/$7,749,876. The sale’s top lot was the painting Matisse como pretexto by Manolo Valdés, which achieved €505.000 and set new a world record for the artist. Juan Varez, Managing Director of Christie’s Spain, commented: “Christie’s Spanish Art art sale witnessed a packed saleroom and [...]

The first Russian pre-sale exhibition by Dorotheum, the leading Austrian auction house, will be held at the building of Stella Art fund on October 17-20, the auction representative told RIA Novosti. The exhibition will present works of well-known Austrian artists: Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser; as well as the works of outstanding twentieth-century painters [...]

The extremely rare original edition of a letter from Maximilianus Transsylvanus, secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is to go under the hammer at the Ketterer Kunst auction of Rare Books – Manuscripts – Autographs – Decorative Prints in Hamburg on 17/18 November. In it, the secretary reports to the Cardinal-Archbishop of Salzburg [...]