In a first for an art exhibition, a room will be devoted to an auction: the sale that the artist held of his own work at Sotheby's.
One chapter is devoted to an auction catalogue of Claudette's possessions – replete with photographs of each item – a haunting dissection of a celebrity's life.
Serving one of the best meals I have ever eaten (yes!), Chef Puck hosted a charity feed/auction on Sunday afternoon at the hotel, and we will devote a separate Huffington Post article to it and the hotel opening shortly.
So it stands to reason that an auction devoted to her furniture would be a highly anticipated event.
Sotheby's, after a mid-season sale of moderately priced contemporary art (April 2), will hold an auction devoted to historic American manuscripts (April 3), featuring a large trove of letters written by Abraham Lincoln.
After the November sales it announced it was initiating "Contemporary Art Now," an auction devoted to art from the last 20 years, purposely to keep up with Christie's, whose contemporary-art auctions cover 1970 to the present.
April 30 2009 May 5 200909 Swann will also be laying out a selection of prints (April 30), from Old Masters to artists of the twentieth century, followed by an auction devoted to a private collection of livres d'artiste (May 5), limited editions richly illustrated with original prints, including works by Braque, Calder, and Matisse.
21) features a sale of contemporary South Asian art as well as an auction devoted to depictions of the Buddha; the week opens with a sale of Chinese ceramics and works of art (including cloisonné figures, Archaic bronzes, and classical furniture) on Sept. 18, and one of Indian modern art and miniatures on Sept. 19.
The focus then shifts to South and Southeast Asia, beginning with a selection of modern and contemporary art from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, followed by "The Scholar's Vision," an auction devoted to the informed and eclectic collection of the eminent scholar and curator Pratapaditya Pal (both on March 20).
As might be expected, the auction hammer awaited cabinets that did not become the basis of present-day institutions, and in recognition of this, the final vitrine is devoted to auction catalogs.
