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...At the coinciding 1-54 fair, Vigo Gallery sold 19 of 26 small-scale works made on pill packets by the Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi, priced up to $20,000 each....
...Huen currently has a sold-out show at Matt Carey-Williams in London (until May 25)....
...Steady, if not stellar, sales were reported from the coinciding Art Dubai (March 1-3, Madinat Jumeirah) and Frieze LA (February 29-March 3, Santa Monica Airport)....
...Corrias will keep the smaller (1,200 sq ft) ground-floor gallery that she opened in a historic building on the other end of Savile Row in 2021....
...Fashion designer Paul Smith is selling a Banksy at Bonhams in London on June 29, estimated between £1.2mn and £1.8mn....
...Highlights go on show at Christie’s in Hong Kong this week (until May 28) then in London July 1-7....
...the Northern Ireland conflict, such as William Crozier, Rita Duffy and the sculptor FE McWilliam....
...A registered charity, Whitechapel Gallery’s Arts Council funding dropped from £1.5mn annually in 2018-22 to £1.4mn in 2023-26....
...William currently has a solo show at MOCA North Miami, until April 16. And finally . . ....
...South Africa’s Modern and contemporary successes — Gerard Sekoto, William Kentridge, Zanele Muholi and Cinga Samson — are also in the sale....
...Visitors included the tennis legend Venus Williams and the musician Jon Bon Jovi....
...“So, within a few days, prices that had started at the fair for — hypothetically — $1,000 almost doubled and still the Chinese were buying,” he explains....
...Kentridge’s top five auction prices were made in New York and London, led by his 25-part sculpture “Procession” (1999-2000), which sold for $1.3mn in 2013....
...Sotheby’s has secured more than 1,000 works from the American collecting couple Sherry and Joel Mallin....
...Most pieces will be for sale, with works on paper up to £50,000, paintings for up to £220,000 and sculptures ranging from £80,000 to £1.1mn....
...The running total of the New York evening sales of fine art — and a dinosaur skeleton — was $1.9bn at the time of writing, within estimates and potentially with another half a billion dollars to come....
...Items include French furniture, Limoges enamels and antique jewels, with estimates that range from €1,000 to €1mn....
...“Reassuringly, there appears to be a level of discrimination amongst collectors,” says Melanie Clore, co-founder of Clore Wyndham advisory....
...Owner Patrick Drahi took the auction house private in June 2019, buying it for $3.7bn, including about $1.1bn of debt....
...The sale is expected to raise around $180mn from nearly 1,500 pieces of art and decor from the Gettys’ lavish Pacific Heights home....
...William MacDougall, director of MacDougall’s auction house for Russian art, says that none of its clients have been placed under UK sanctions....
...Its March 1 sale at Christie’s London coincides with the artist’s well-received show at the nearby Royal Academy of Arts (until April 17)....
...Works by Williams range from $24,000-$55,000....
...Prices range from $500,000 to $1.8m for the twice life-sized elderly “Couple Under an Umbrella” (2013-15)....
...Afshar has spent £1.5m on a lease and renovations for a three-storey building in Hatton Garden, with a further £200,000 due annually for rent and business rates....
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