Now in its seventh season, The Orientalist Sale, launched as an annual event by Sotheby’s London in 2012, brings together an eclectic pastiche of paintings and sculptures representing the landscapes, people, and customs of north Africa, Egypt the Levant, Arabia and the Ottoman world from the 19th and early 20th centuries. This year’s sale will comprise the largest-ever offering since the inaugural 2012 auction. Featuring over 60 lots, the sale—which will take place on 24...
The Jerwood Collection celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the modern and contemporary British art collection will stage an exhibition of 25 works by some of Britain’s most esteemed artists, opening to the public on 8 June at Sotheby’s London. The exhibition aims to honour the Jerwood Foundation’s legacy of championing 20th and 21st century British art. The show will highlight important pieces from the Collection, which illustrate the rich...
For the second instalment in our Arts & Collections series, we visit Jo Holdsworth, a London-based artist at her home studio in Wimbledon in south west London. Jo talks animatedly about her influences and inspirations, including Frida Kahlo and her Lowry roots, over a coffee or two with the spring light streaming through the open windows. Jo Holdsworth is a London artist who is beginning to make a name for herself in the art world. Already this...
In yet another sign of the burgeoning Indian art market, Sotheby’s will hold its inaugural Indian auction in Mumbai this December. ‘Boundless: Mumbai’, the first in a series of scheduled sales, will be held at landmark venue, The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai. The sale, led by Tyeb Mehta’s seminal work Durga Mahishasura Mardini (1983), will comprise not only the work of South Asia’s great artists, but also that of western artists influenced and...
An extremely rare and pure 102.35-carat diamond was sold to a private collector through Sotheby’s Diamonds this February (2018). The price paid for the exceptional jewel—which achieved perfection in all critical criteria: colour, clarity, cut and carat—far exceeded that of any colourless diamond sold at auction. Sotheby’s Diamonds chairman Patti Wong called the diamond, whose buyer cannot be revealed, a ‘masterpiece of nature’. Speaking of the sale, she said: ‘When the new custodian of...
Heathrow Airport will auction off an eclectic miscellany of items from baggage carousels to security scanners from its now-redundant Terminal 1. The sale, which includes huge clocks, check-in desks, information boards and thousands of seats and cameras, as well as entire escalators, will take place on Saturday 21 April. Everything from hot water boilers to customs signs will be sold off to bidders who pre-register online through auctioneers CAGP global partners. Also on offer is...
The founder of the Wallace Collection, Sir Richard Wallace, would have turned 200 this year. To mark the occasion, the Collection launches its flagship exhibition, Sir Richard Wallace: The Collector, which collates some of the most idiosyncratic and diverse works of art he acquired over his lifetime. The exhibition, which runs from 20 June 2018 until 6 January 2019, will highlight Sir Richard’s considerable philanthropic legacy, as well as explore the many facets of this...
A statue of a naked Donald Trump is going under the hammer. It is estimated to fetch $20,000 to $30,000. Works by Banksy, Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat will appear alongside the statue at Julien’s Street and Urban Art Auction. The sale, which will take place 2 May 2018 in Jersey City, is Mana Contemporary’s first-ever street art auction. Julien’s Auctions said: ‘The collection will include an extraordinary and diverse canvas of works by some...
For the first in a new Arts & Collections series, we visit Polish artist Michał Janowski at his home studio in east London. Janowski discusses his beliefs and the Catholic Church, and describes his processes—including painting with coffee—over an IPA in his Hackney living room. Featured in Saatchi Art’s ‘One to Watch’ series, Michał Janowski is an Eastern European artist who has made a name for himself in the U.K. Having graduated in 2009 from...
In collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Louvre in Paris will hold a historic exhibition to celebrate Eugène Delacroix—one of the most prolific French painters of all time. Despite the artist’s prominence, his last significant retrospective dates back to 1963: the centenary year of his death. The collection will guide visitors through 180 of his works—mostly paintings—charting and paying tribute to the entirety of his career. From the young artist’s...
