Max Beckmann’s painting “View of the Outskirts at the Sea near Marseille”, formerly in the possession of the famous collector and friend of the artist Stephan Lackner (California), surpassed all expectations at auction in Berlin; it sold for 2,618,000 Euros, the new world record auction price for a landscape by Max Beckmann. After intense bidding, [...]

A packed audience of over 1,000 people in the fabulous surroundings of the BMW Museum in Munich, Germany, witnessed a total sell out auction of the Willy Neutkens Collection of BMW Motorcycles on Saturday 28 November, 2009.
The Collection comprised 94 Lots (91 motorcycles; an Ural side-car; a BMW stationary engine; and a wooden model) and [...]

On the occasion of the anniversary sale, VAN HAM Cologne presents numerous works of established photographers such as Werner Mantz, Albert Renger-Patzsch and August Sander as well as interesting contemporary photo art, such as Beate Gütschow with a fascinating nature depiction, Petra Wunderlich with an urban motif and furthermore Gudrun Kemsa and Thomas Struth.
Beate Gütschow’s [...]

One of the major events at Sotheby’s this Autumn promises to be the sale in Paris on December 8 of a unique work by Jeff Koons: “Elephant” (Purple), donated by the artist to the Foundation Claude Pompidou in 2009.
This masterpiece from 1999 (estimate €300,000-400,000) will be sold to help finance the Foundation’s most recent [...]

Sotheby’s auction of Swiss Art will be held in Zurich, on Monday, 7th December 2009, at 6pm. Urs Lanter and Stéphanie Schleining Deschanel, Specialists of Swiss Art at Sotheby’s, will offer 123 lots spanning more than 250 years of Swiss artistic history.
The sale highlights classical artists such as Amiet, Anker, Biéler, Bocion, Buchet, Calame, [...]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers , the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, has announced it signed a long-term lease on approximately 16 hectares (41 acres) of land in Meppen, Germany. The global auction firm intends to begin construction of a new auction site there in December, with plans to complete construction by mid-2010. This will be the Company’s [...]

This year’s fall auctions at Villa Grisebach Auktionen in Berlin start off on 26 November 2009 with over 180 lots for sale in Modern and Contemporary photography.
After the successful spring sale of photographs of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s architecture, Grisebach now presents an additional Vintage print of the architect’s famous model for a [...]

Sotheby’s December 3 sale in Paris reflects a successful encounter between several African art enthusiasts – two collectors, a journalist and a scientist – united by the fate of an exceptional Dogon figure (Plateau of Bandiagara, Mali) that had been split into two for nearly 50 years on either side of the Atlantic.
Now the two [...]

After the success of the final part of the Marie-Thérèse & André Jammes Collection in November 2008, Sotheby’s will be staging an auction of photographs from various owners in Paris for the first time on 20 November. The sale includes an impressive selection of 134 high-quality international photographs spanning the history of photography from its [...]

Sotheby’s Amsterdam will, going forward, hold two sales of Old Master Paintings every year (one in May and the second in December) and the first of these new-format sales will be held on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 2p.m. This sale will comprise some 69 lots – many with exemplary provenance having not appeared on [...]