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Auction week between Italy and abroad: Pananti, Cambi, and Maison Bibelot protagonists

The week of November promises to be packed with events for collectors and art lovers. The Italian scene is particularly lively, with a concentration of sales starting on Thursday, November 6. On this day Maison Bibelot closes its timed auction Vintag...
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National and international auction week: the calendar from 19th century to Asian art

Between Oct. 30 and Nov. 5, 2025, the auction week sees Pananti, Cambi, and Maison Bibelot in the spotlight in Italy, with sales of paintings, drawings, and antique prints. Abroad, Christie's and Bonhams focus on Asian art and classics, between Hong ...
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Sotheby's Paris: record 89.7 million and a Modigliani sold for 27 million

During Art Basel Paris week, the energy surrounding the art market translated into an unprecedented result for Sotheby's Paris office. The auction house recorded its highest total ever in France for a combined sale of modern and surrealist art, with ...
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England, five-figure sale for a Dalí that was bought for only £150

A fortuitous discovery turned into a surprising artistic rediscovery and a major adjudication on the international market. An original painting by Salvador Dalí, purchased for only 150 pounds during a house clearance in Cambridge, England(we h...
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Goya stars at Dorotheum auction: portrait of the Duke of Alba sold for 520,000 euros

The international market for old paintings once again confirmed its vigor at the auction organized by Dorotheum on Oct. 23, 2025. The event, which brought together collectors and institutions from all over Europe, featured as its undisputed star Fran...
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Bolaffi auctions in Turin: paintings and furniture with Ceruti top lot worth 40,000 euros

On Tuesday, Oct. 28, Spazio Bolaffi in Turin (Corso Verona 34/D) is hosting anauction of furniture, paintings and objets d'art by Aste Bolaffi. The sale's extensive and varied catalog includes a total of 716 lots ranging from the 16th to the 20th cen...
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Auction week in Italy and abroad: works and memorabilia October 23-29, 2025

Auction houses, both Italian and international, are preparing to hammer out important lots between October 24 and 29, 2025, offering in-person and online opportunities to intercept works of different nature and value. On the domestic scene, Il Ponte...
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At auction at Pandolfini's a painting by Pellizza da Volpedo for the first time on the market

In the upcoming auction of 19th Century Paintings, scheduled for Nov. 19, 2025 at Pandolfini, a painting by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo will go up for auction: this is the first time this work has gone on the market. It is Meadows and Hills of the C...
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Art and design auctions: events in Italy and around the world Oct. 16-20

Between October 16 and 2025, leading Italian and international auction houses will be auctioning off a wide selection of works, ranging from modern and contemporary art to design, photography and jewelry. In Milan, Finarte will offer its auction dedi...
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Who are today's art collectors? Here's a map of tastes and values in a new survey

Art collecting has always been the silent and fundamental driving force that powers a substantial part of the art system. It is through the choices of collectors that the market takes shape, that artists receive life support, and that institutions dr...
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Lucca, a series of meetings on the global art market at the Ragghianti Foundation

Lucca 's Fondazione Ragghianti is inaugurating a new path of cultural insight with a series of meetings entitled The Global Art Market, dedicated to analyzing the economic, social and cultural dynamics that govern the world of modern and contemporary...
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This is what the first edition of Art Basel Qatar will look like. 87 galleries from 31 countries and no booths

Art Basel debuts in Qatar with its first edition in Doha, scheduled for Feb. 5-7, 2026, with two preview days reserved for collectors and insiders on Feb. 3 and 4. The new fair, produced in partnership with Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) and QC+, is ...
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Fall auctions: jewelry, rare books and design on the calendar Oct. 3-20

The first week of October promises to be a period of particular fervor for the art market, with a packed agenda ranging from fine jewelry to design masterpieces, via modern and contemporary art and precious paper evidence. On the Italian front, the a...
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Florence, Pandolfini's auction of antique paintings from the Molinari Pradelli collection

Next Oct. 29, Florence will host a major event for the art market: the Pandolfini auctions dedicated to Old Master Paintings and Works of Exceptional Artistic Historical Value will present a selection of works from the private collection of Francesco...
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A solidarity auction at Arcadia in Rome: Renoir and Soutine up to 200,000 euros

A collection of 36 works, belonging to the Charlemagne Foundation, will be auctioned on Oct. 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the halls of the Arcadia Auction House in Rome. The entire proceeds (estimated at around one million euros) will go to fund the Periferiac...
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Comic books, Frank Frazetta's masterpiece sold for $13.5 million: it's the most expensive ever

On Sept. 12, 2025, during Heritage Auctions' auction number 7446 in Dallas, the original painting by U.S. illustrator Frank Frazetta (New York, 1928 - Fort Myers, 2010) created for the cover of the Conan novel published by Lancer/Ace Books in 1967 so...
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