Auctions - Finestre sull'Arte

Fabergé's Winter Egg sold for £22 million at Christie's, it's a record

Christie 's Classic Week in London kicked off yesterday with an event destined to go down in the history of the international art market thanks to the sale of TheWinter Egg by Fabergé, which sold at auction for 22,895,000 pounds, equivalent to...
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Auctions, record at Il Ponte: Modigliani leads auction of more than 8.6 million

Important results for the Modern and Contemporary Art session of November 25 and 26 at the Il Ponte auction house in Milan, which ended as one of the most relevant in recent times for the Italian market, not only for the magnitude of the results, but...
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France, record at auction for Guido Reni: the David sold for 12.4 million euros

Record highs at auction for a Guido Reni painting with adjudication at 10,100,000 euros, rising to 12.4 million with royalties, for the David with the Head of Goliath thatresurfaced last June and went to auction yesterday at Artcurial in Paris, star...
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Michelangelo's lost drawing for the Sistine Chapel resurfaces, to be auctioned in 2026

A drawing by Michelangelo (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564) for the Sistine Chapel vault emerges on the market: it is a rare and recently discovered sheet, and is one of the few drawings by the Tuscan artist still in private hands. It is, moreover, the on...
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Gerrit Dou masterpiece back on the market after a century: for sale at Christie's

Back on the market after more than a century is a rare masterpiece of the Dutch seventeenth century. The Flute Player, the first depiction of a musician painted by Gerrit Dou (Leiden, 1613 - 1675), will be the top lot in theOld Masters Evening Sale o...
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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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Solidarity auction in Rome: Arcadia raises over 2 million euros. A Soutine sold for over 600,000

Important results for theauction held last Oct. 21 in the halls of Casa d'Aste Arcadia in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome. The auction sale of 36 works belonging to the Charlemagne Foundation was held here, the proceeds of which will be entirely d...
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A still life by Vincent Van Gogh at auction at Sotheby's: a $40 million piece

An important work by Vincent van Gogh (Zunder, 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890) will be featured in Sotheby's Modern Evening Auction, scheduled for November 2025 in New York. It is Romans Parisiens (Les Livres jaunes), a rare and luminous still life pai...
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