Holistic Auction

10 May 2018 Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen sells online 26 icons dated to the period of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The central place of the auction belongs to the icon depicting sceneries of life of St. Nicholas (18th century), large Feasts icon with twenty seven feast motifs (19th century), St. John the Baptis (c. 1800) and four parted icon “Burning bush”, “Joy to all who grieve”, “St. Alexia and Jakob”, “St. Tatiana and St. Alexandra” (18th century).  Next...

12-15 March 2018 spring auction to be held at Piguet – Hotel des Ventes in Geneva, Switzerland. The portrait of legendary Edmonde Guy by Kees van Dongen to be offered at auction together with the paintings of Swiss painters, modern and contemporary artwork.  Next...

2 February 2018, Geneva, the Responsible Art Market Initiative (RAM) holds its second conference, where it presents a new project – the “Art Due Diligence Toolkit”. The Toolkit is addressed to the art businesses and collectors, and applies a risk-based approach to due diligence practices.  Next...

On June 18th and from June 20th to 22nd, 2018 Swiss auction house Schuler Auktionen will be hosting their next auction in Zurich. Among the lots to be offered for sale are some Russian icons from the XVII — XIX centuries: a large twopartite icon “Unexpected Joy” – “Synaxis of the Archangel Michael” (XIX century), “Christ Pantocrator” (1st part of the XIX century), “Archangel Michael Horseman” (XVIII century), “St. Elisha” (XVII century), “Fiery Ascent of the Prophet Elijah” (around 1600), “Christ Pantocrator” (XIX century), as well as the icon with the bright glass bead embroidered casing and the frame (XIX century).  Next...

On June 6th, 2018 leading Russian art auction house MacDougall’s is hosting their next auction in London. The highlights: Konstantin Somov’s “Meeting in the Park” (1919), Ivan Shishkin's “Pine Forest. Yelbuga” (1897), Pavel Kuznetsov’s “Fountain” (1904), Chaïm Soutine’s portrait “La liseuse endormie, Madeleine Castaing” (c. 1937), Ivan Khrutsky's “Still Life with Fruit and Honeycomb” (1840), Alexander Deineka’s “Woman in a Yellow Dress” (1955), Georgy Nissky’s “Reclining Nude” (c. 1959) and other artwork.  Next...