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The Line of Beauty: Draw☂ings from the Collection of Howard and Saretta Barnet Totaled $11.6 Million in January 2018.

The superb collection of just 28 drawings, formed over some 40 years by the New York couple Howard and Saretta Barnet, met with resounding success at auction in January of 2018. The razor-sharp collection consisted of drawings spanning 500 years of the history of Western art all of the highest quality and beauty. Remarkable works within the collection encompassed a spectacular array of artists including 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Fra Bartolommeo , 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Jean-Antoine Watteau, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Edgar Degas , 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Pablo Picasso and even 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Lucian Freud . The stars of the auction included Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes’s 'No Llenas Tanto La Cesta' ('Don't Fill The Basket So Full', (shown here) which achieved $2.1 million, and Claude Lorrain's The Valley of the Aniene, Near Tivoli, with the Ruins of the Aqua Anio Novus Aqueduct , which garnered $1.6 million — both more than doubling their estimates.

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168开奖官方开奖网站查询:The Otto Naumann Sale Totals $6.2 Million in January 2018.

Otto Naumann is a world-renowned art dealer as well as an art historian and voracious collector. The May auction of European paintings from the 16th to the 19th centuries exemplifies Otto’s impressive eye for timeless pictures of the highest quality. Highlights of the auction included Charlotte Vignon’s 17th century still life Pe💝aches and Grapes an a Table Draped with ✱a Red Cloth which nearly double its high estimate and Giovanni Bilivert’s lush Renaissancce painting 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Venus, Cupid and Pan (shown here), which far exceeded its high estimate, garnering $879,000.

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The Jeweler’s Eye: The Pers🐼onal Collection of Fred Leighton Totals 2.8 Million in April 2018.

Celebrity jeweler 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Fred Leighton had an acute eye for fine and unusual objects, and much of his life identifying, and transforming heirloom and period jewels into the coveted baubles of society and celebrity clients alike. An early proponent of Art Deco-style jewelry and decorative arts, his fascination with various periods reinvigorated the market for antique pieces that had fallen out of style. His personal collection represented his diverse tastes in jewelry as well as interior design with a wide-range of styles including Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Victorian and Asian and encompassing Edgar Brandt “Altesse” console adorned with a Buddha, arm chairs covered in zebra-style fabric – even a 19th Century Mughal silver throne. Highlights of the auction included a 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Moorish Revival thuya and ebonize✨﷽d wood cabinet that sold exponentially above it’s $10,000 high estimate achieving $75,000 as well as a Cartier Gold, Turquoise 🧜and Diamond Grande Desk Clock that more than tripled its high estimate selling for $275,000.

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TO LIVE WIT𒁃H ART: Property from the Jerome & Ellen 🦩Stern Collection Totals 2.4 million in March 2018.

The unique 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Collection of Jerome & Ellen Stern comprised over 150 artworks that encapsulated the family’s passion for young artists from around the world. The visionary collection entailed a robust selection of African & Oceanic sculptures, drawings and paintings by 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Marlene Dumas and 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Carroll Dunham , sculptures by 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Edward Kienholz , 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Menashe Kadishman and 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Serge Spitzer and prints by 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Gerhard Richter . The auction was led by Marlene Dumas’ 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Small Dark Portrait (with White Teeth) (shown here) from 1993–1999, which sold for $275,000, well above the high estimate. Another highlight included Zhang Huan's 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Family Tree , which doubled its estimate selling for $106,250.

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168开奖官方开奖网站查询༺:The Cellar from the Estate of Jerry Perenchio, a two-part auction, achieved $52 million HKD ($6.7 million) in Part I , held in Hong Kong in March 2018. Part II, held in New York in May 2018 totaled $5.2 million.

Jerry Perenchio was a legendary entrepreneur with a natural instinct for deal-making. His career in entertainment covered the music, film and television businesses. He was also a generous philanthropist, almost always carried out anonymously. When his cellar was offered in a two-part sale earlier this year it was considered one of the most superb collections of mature wines to ever appear at auction, characterized by both its impressive quality and quantity, encompassing some of the greatest and rarest vintages from 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Domaine de la Romanée-Conti , Leroy and de Vogüé from Burgundy, and all the First Growths and Petrus from Bordeaux. Among the highlights for the two-part sale was 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:the 1971 Doma🉐ine De La Romanee-Conti , which reached $3,198,000 HKD ($407,425).

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The Richard R. & Magdalena Ernst Collection ꧃of Himalayan Art Totals $5.2 Million in March 2018.

The Richard R. & Magdalena Ernst Co💦👍llection of Himalayan Art was acquired over several decades and represents the couple’s lifetime commitment to Himalayan painting and sculpture. When the collection came to auction in March 2018 it marked on the most significant single-owner sales of Himalayan art in auction history. The magnificent collection of eighty-eight paintings, spanning the 12th to 19th centuries exemplified the couple’s the discerning and impeccable taste. A 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Paubha depicting a Krishna ⛦Temple N♋epal (shown here) from the 17th to 18th century nearly doubled its high-estimate, achieving $567,000.

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Raising The Bar: Masterworks from the Coll൩ection of Morton and Barbara Mandel Totals $107.9 Million in May 2018.

168开奖官方开奖✅网站查询:The Collection of Mo▨rton and Barbara Mandel achieved a 100% sell through in May 2018 and set new auction records for artists 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Mark Rothko and 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Pablo Picasso. A pioneering entrepreneur and philanthropist, Morton Mandel, together with his wife Barbara, amassed an enviable collection over several decades, which spanned many of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century: from Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism; to Minimalism and Pop, with an equal emphasis on paintings, works on paper and sculpture. David Smith’s sculpture 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Land Coaster more than doubled its low estimate achieving $6.7 million. The star lot of the auction was Mark Rothko’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Untitled (1969) work on paper which set a new artist record for a work on paper achieving $18.9 million.

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The Shape ☂of Beauty: Sculpture from the Collection of Howard and Saretta Barnet Totals $8.4 Million in May 2018.

Following the highly successful auctions 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:The Color of Beauty , which presented the contemporary paintings from the Barnet collection in the fall of 2017, and 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:The Line of Beauty , which featured their extraordinary collection of Old Master Drawings, in May of 2018 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:The Shape of Beauty presented the couple’s exquisite masterpieces of African, Oceanic, Pre-Columbian, and American Indian Art, alongside Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities. The collection's 29 objects, assembled over the last 50 years, were of the highest quality and covered an astonishing span of time, geographic range and cultures. The star of the sale was a 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Fang-Mvaï Aꦇncestor Statu𓄧e by the Master of Ntem , one of the finest known examples of Fang sculpture, which achieved a remarkable $3.5 million.

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A Collection That We Dre🎐amt Of: Art 💝and Design from the Homes of Delphine and Reed Krakoff Totals $8.7 Million in May 2018.

Works from the collection of tastemakers 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Delphine and Reed Krakoff garnered top prices for the whimsical works of Les Lalannes. François-Xavier Lalanne's “Moutons de Laine”– comprising 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:five wool sheep , 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:one black sheep and one white sheep– together garnered $2.3 million, nearly double the combined high estimate. The 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:rare black sheep set a new auction record for a single “Mouton de Laine” at $735,000. Meanwhile, Claude Lalanne’s 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:“Crocodile” armchair and a 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:unique "Aux Branchettes" chandelier both garnered totals well above their high estimates. Another highlight was Harry Bertoia’s grand-scale sculpture 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Untitled (Monumental Bush) , which fetched $519,000.

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Thomas Molesworth: Designing the American West The Ruth and Jake Bloom Coll🦹ection Totals $2.7 Million in May 2018.

Thomas Molesworth's quintessentially Western designs attracted heated bidding in a spirited May sale. Three-quarters of the lots exceeded their high estimates and ten records were set for his designs. Highlights included an 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Octagonal Games Table that sold for $225,000, more than three times its high estimate as well as a playful red 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Molesworth door that surged past its $8,000 high estimate to reach $137,500.

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