August 2017 Art News

"The Important Design Sale encompasses 500 years of Fine Decorative Arts. The sale will take place on 5 April in London and will go on view from 2 April."

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"Bonhams Director of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Ralph Taylor introduces the many highlights from our Post War and Contemporary Art sale on June 29 at New Bond Street, including Mark Bradford, Andy Warhol, Banksy, Rudolf Stingel, Christopher Wool, and more."

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Highlights from Bonhams Old Masters Sale 5 July 2017. 

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"Rembrandt Bugatti — brother of Ettore Bugatti, founder of the eponymous automobile company — was a brilliant sculptor of animals. Touched by the story of Bugatti’s premature death, the actor Alain Delon has amassed a superb collection of his work."

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"This haniwa clay model of a horse from 6th-century Japan would have been buried in a tomb on ‘a very grand scale’, explains Japanese Art specialist Mark Hinton."

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"Nic McElhatton, Chairman of Christie’s South Kensington, on his love for the small, lovingly-crafted domestic wooden objects and drinking vessels that are prized by collectors."

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"In the video above specialist Elizabeth Beaman describes how the leading American Impressionists found inspiration on a hideaway island in New England."

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"An important portfolio of images by Eugène Atget, one of the ‘founding fathers’ of modern photography, was thought to have been lost — until it was rediscovered ‘almost by chance’ among the archives of the artist André Derain.

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Specialist Elizabeth Hammer examines superlative examples of ‘the most intimate form of Chinese traditional painting’, all with Imperial provenance — offered in New York on 15 March
 

"When he fled Paris for Tahiti in 1891, the artist described a ‘dazzling’ encounter with a landscape and way of life that changed his painting for ever — as an exceptional painting from our 28 February sale demonstrates."

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