Contemporary Art
The wide and varied world of Post-war and Contemporary art has become a major part of the art market and a key sector for the leading auction houses.
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BADA Friends supports contemporary museum acquisition
16 August 2022The Friends of the BADA has given £500 to support the Bethlem Museum of the Mind in the acquisition of a new work.
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Year of the Dealer organiser Mark Westgarth joins BADA Prize judges
28 July 2022More big names from the art and antiques world have joined the judging panel for the BADA Prize.
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Collection of Aboriginal art offered in Los Angeles
25 July 2022Aboriginal art from the collection of Richard Kelton (1929-2019) will be offered by Abell of Los Angeles in an auction on July 28.
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Hockney stars at Thirsk Hall this summer
18 July 2022Accessible art is the aim of North Yorkshire dealer who hopes to enthuse a younger crowd
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Art dealer influenced by social media
18 July 2022This is one of the pictures offered in Stow Art House’s one-man show featuring British artist Tim Woolcock (b.1952).
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Simon de Pury launches new Contemporary art sales
06 July 2022Auctioneer Simon de Pury, who previously owned and ran Phillips and worked as an art advisor, has launched de-Pury.com with auctions planned for next month.
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British art boosts latest Modern and Contemporary art series
04 July 2022A string of top-end consignments of British works boosted the latest London sales of Modern and Contemporary art.
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Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud leads London sales at £37.5m
01 July 2022A Francis Bacon portrait of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud topped the latest series of Modern and Contemporary auctions in London.
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Queen portraits among highlights of Sotheby’s Platinum jubilee celebrations
02 June 2022Portraits of five centuries of female monarchs feature in a loan exhibition at Sotheby’s as part of its jubilee festival.
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New York sales underline market strength
23 May 2022Underlining the recovery of the post-covid art market, at the very top-end at least, the latest series of 20th and 21st century auctions in New York posted a record total for a flagship auction fortnight.
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Warhol and Degas auction records fall in US
16 May 2022Christie’s flagship sales of Modern and Contemporary art in New York produced a running total of $1.25bn (£1.02m) including premium from four evening auctions last week.
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Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe makes second highest auction price of all time
10 May 2022One of five different coloured versions of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe silkscreen from 1964 fetched the second highest auction price of all time when it sold at Christie’s New York last night.
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Africa art on the rise
25 April 2022Investors are targeting the Post-war and Contemporary market for high returns as inflation soars and uncertainty reigns
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Kneffel is the realistic choice
25 April 2022Passengers on the Cunard liner Queen Mary 2 encounter paintings by the German artist Karin Kneffel (b.1957) whenever they visit the Britannia restaurant: eight of her monumental paintings of fruit adorn the walls. A more accessible way of finding a work by her presents itself at the June 1-3 sale at Grisebach in Berlin. On offer is her diptych (F XXXVIII) from 1997 which consists of two canvases, each measuring 5ft 11in x 5ft 11in (1.8 x 1.8m).
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Homage to Hockney
25 April 2022Rob Fisher painted 'Splash Test One' specially for inclusion in the exhibition Splash: Ode to Hockney.
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Hockney drawings and prints bring demand in the North and South
25 April 2022The expansion in prices for David Hockney (b.1937) has affected not just his large and famous works which now sell for multi-millions but also his smaller drawings and printed works that fall further down the price scale.
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Surf’s up for Maggi Hambling
25 April 2022A small work by Maggi Hambling (b.1945) was among the pieces of Modern and Contemporary art attracting interest recently at Parker Fine Art Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).
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Gore captures island charm
25 April 2022Dreweatts’ (25% buyer’s premium) Modern & Contemporary Art sale on March 16 was led by some distance by the rare lead Mother and Child sculpture by Henry Moore (1898-1986) which was bid to £320,000 (see News, ATG No 2535).
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Distinctive body of work by Antes
25 April 2022Since 1962, when the German artist Horst Antes (b.1936) first introduced his profile of the male figure to his art, it has become an instantly recognisable aspect, not only of his paintings and lithographs but also of his sculptures.
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TEFAF New York back in the groove two years later
25 April 2022With heroic bearing, patrician features and draped fabric fit for a Roman emperor, an iron bust by Kehinde Wiley exemplifies the spirit of TEFAF New York.
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