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...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...Its secondary market (resale) business remains the focus and such works greet visitors on the ground floor of the new 500 sq m gallery, including, in the window, Niki de Saint Phalle’s “L’Oiseau amoureux...
...Oliver Moss, director of Asian art dealership Sydney L Moss, says the market for most Japanese works “took a blow” after Japan’s 1991 economic crash. Meanwhile, Chinese art has become pricey....
...These included the top lot of the art auction, another Monet — “Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, temps couvert” (1891) — for $26.5mn ($30.8mn with fees, est $30mn-$40mn)....
...Among his highlights for next week are Design Miami, which opens its first edition in the French capital (October 18-22, L’hôtel de Maisons)....
...Modern Art’s 2,000 sq ft, second-floor space will be in a Haussmann-designed building on Place de l’Alma in the city’s central eighth arrondissement....
...The event will now be in the 18th-century L’hôtel de Maisons, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés....
...Ostin’s works were topped by René Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951), which sold for $36.5mn ($42.3mn with fees, est $35mn-$55mn) while a second painting by Magritte in his collection, from 1949,...
...Works by Willem de Kooning, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly join Magritte’s “L’Empire des lumières” (1951, est $35mn-$45mn) and “Le Domaine d’Arnheim” (est $15mn-$25mn)....
...Sonically, though, we keep following the rolling voiceover of British filmmaker Melanie Hyams, speaking only of the horror that took place here between 1940 and 1945....
...The top price was £59.4mn for René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s....
...The legendary DJ Readers Wifes will kick matters off from 3pm. 11 August; from £31, heritagelive.net Glyndebourne Festival, Lewes, East SussexDon Giovanni, Semele, Dialogues des Carmélites, L’elisir d’amore...
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...“Reassuringly, there appears to be a level of discrimination amongst collectors,” says Melanie Clore, co-founder of Clore Wyndham advisory....
...When I ask Mount Anvil, co-developers with L&Q, how they alighted on the name, they do not offer comment....
...South African photographer and stylist Trevor Stuurman is at Doyle Wham on Rivington Street; the late feminist artist Nicola L, whose revival includes a major exhibition at Camden Art Centre in 2024, is...
...The highest price paid was £51.5mn (£59.4mn with fees; est £45mn, guaranteed), for René Magritte’s surrealist showstopper “L’empire des lumières” (1961) at Sotheby’s on March 2, a record for the artist....
...Sotheby’s London had the sale of the only known painting of an auction room by the beloved British painter L. S. Lowry, which went for £2.1m (£2.6m with fees, est £1.2m-£1.8m) on Tuesday....
...She had her own gallery between 2012 and 2017 but this was bookended by double acts — she made her mark running L&M Arts with Robert Mnuchin for seven years until 2012 and has partnered with Gorvy since...
...“It was important to rebrand because you’re not going to get the same thing as in another David Zwirner space,” says director Ebony L Haynes....
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