Impressionist and Modern Art
One of the flagship sectors of the art market comprising works by artists from the late 19th century through to first half of the 20th century. This area includes works by Impressionist, Surrealist, Expressionist and Cubist painters.
The Scream to go on public display in NY
28 September 2012The most expensive artwork ever sold at auction is to go on display to the public for six months at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Edvard Munch's The Scream sets all-time auction record
03 May 2012The latest round of Impressionist and Modern art sales in New York will forever be remembered as ‘The Scream’ series.
Cezanne sets all-time record
13 February 2012REPORTS have emerged that the Qatari Royal family has paid a record amount for any work of art ever sold.
Klimt steals the show as Imps & Mods wobble
07 November 2011THE latest Impressionist & Modern art auctions in New York finished much better than they started.
An £82,000 Cheltenham lady
07 November 2011SETTING a house record at Cotswolds saleroom Tayler & Fletcher and helping them to their highest ever sale total, this small and previously unrecorded portrait by Anders Zorn (1860-1920), fetched £82,000 in Cheltenham.
Brothers in print… but not in law
25 October 2011In the wider world, the photographer Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) is best known for the fact that it was in his former studio on the Boulevard des Capucines that the Impressionists held their first group exhibition in 1874.
German war artist emerges 65 years on
28 March 2011ONE of Germany’s official war artists, Roman Zenzinger, who has long remained in the shadows because of his apparent hatred of the Nazis, is now having his works bought to light.
More Picasso problems in Paris
20 December 2010A SALE at the Hotel Drouot in Paris devoted to minor works by Picasso was called off at the last minute because of controversy over provenance.
Trio make for more lucrative auction series in New York
08 November 2010RECORD prices for three European artists helped lift the latest round of Impressionist and Modern art sales in New York. With the market much more selective since the downturn two years ago and most of the competition focusing on the biggest trophy lots, the new saleroom highs for Henri Matisse, Juan Gris and Amedeo Modigliani provided further evidence of recovery at the top end.
Three arrested in German multi-million forgery case
25 October 2010THREE people have been arrested in Germany in connection with a multi-million pound art fraud involving a number of apparently major 20th century oils sold on the international market in recent years.
Picasso matches print record
20 September 2010LA Minotauromachie from 1935 is arguably the masterpiece of the Pablo Picasso's 2000 or so different printed works.
Expressionist oil emerges in West London
31 August 2010CHISWICK Auctions are set to sell one of the most important early paintings by the German Expressionist Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966) to have come to market in recent years.
Munch's Madonna brings over £1m in London
19 July 2010WHEN it comes to modern prints, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) stands in a league with only Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol as artists who have made sums getting on for £1m at auction. However, Bonhams broke through that barrier on July 13 when they offered an extremely rare version of one of the Norwegian artist’s best known images.
Huge totals at Imps & Mods sales despite overheated estimates
28 June 2010THE latest Impressionist & Modern art auction series in London saw rising returns for the salerooms but buyers reacted unfavourably to heavy estimates on the most expensive works.
£33.5m record for Modigliani and for France
21 June 2010IT may have been an exceptional piece that generated an equally exceptional level of presale interest but, even still, few people present at Christie's Paris for the sale of Amedeo Modigliai's (1884-1920) Tête were expecting it to become the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction in France.
Failure to repair alarm costs Paris museum dear
28 May 2010FIVE modern paintings, thought to be worth a total of over £90m, were stolen during the night of May 19-20 from the City of Paris Modern Art Museum.
Market for masterpieces gains momentum in New York
07 May 2010THE return of free-spending at the very top end of the art market continued apace at last week’s Impressionist and Modern sales series in New York as boom-time levels of bidding were seen on the blockbuster lots. For the second time this year, a new record was set for any artwork ever sold at auction.
Vollard emerges from a vault
26 April 2010A LONG-lost array of paintings, prints, books and drawings owned by legendary art dealer Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) will be one of the talking points of the Paris summer season when it goes on sale at Sotheby’s on June 29.
Lloyd Webber Picasso returns to auction
22 March 2010FOLLOWING the confidential settlement made between The Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation and the heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Picasso’s 1903 portrait of his friend Angel Fernandez de Soto will be offered for sale at Christie’s in London on June 23 with an estimate of £30-40m.
What makes the £58m walking man so special?
05 February 2010If the price paid for Alberto Giacometti's (1901-1966) sculpture L'Homme qui Marche I is anything to go by, then the art market is now striding out of recession. Selling for £58m (plus premium) at Sotheby's evening sale on February 3, it became the most expensive object ever sold at auction.
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