Skinner, Boston, will present Lawrence Kearney’s first sale as Director of Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets, featuring a curated selection of fine carpets, antique textiles and Central Asian embroideries.
Copenhagen art auctioneers Bruun Rasmussen’s first international sale of the year on 26 February 2014 included a good selection of fine 20th century Persian workshop pieces.
The auction ‘Oriental Carpets, Textiles and Tapestries’ at Vienna’s Palais Dorotheum on 25 February 2014 (4pm) offers a selection of pieces from many different countries.
The peculiarly impressive collection of Stanley J. Seeger (1930 – 2011) is to be sold at Sotheby’s, London on 5 – 6 March 2014. The items and works of art span 250 million years of history.
As part of their February Auction, Massachusetts-based antique auctioneers Grogan & Company will be offering 77 lots of rugs, carpets and textiles.
The personal collection of D’Elsa Schiaparelli, entrusted to Christie’s by her granddaughter Marisa Berenson, was sold at their Paris saleroom on 23 January 2014, achieving a total of €1,683,750.
Bonhams Art of the South Seas auction in San Francisco on Sunday 9 February 2014 features an array of masks, shields, clubs, paddles and other South Seas artefacts. Amongst them, an incredible headband from Papua New Guinea constructed from multiple exoskeletons of the native Flower Beetle and woven plaited orchid stem, some decorated tapa bark-cloths,… Read more »
Sotheby’s Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie sale in Paris on 11 December 2013 confirmed the saleroom’s position as the past year’s top venue for African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian art.
The Friday afternoon viewing on 29 November 2013 was rather less well-attended than for past sales, but by the opening of the auction on the afternoon of Saturday 30th November, Rippon Boswell‘s Friedrichstrasse saleroom in Wiesbaden was reasonably full. Our impression, confirmed by auctioneer Detlef Maltzahn, was that bidding in the room was stronger than at… Read more »
A Joan Miró tapestry, Personnages Rythmiques, sold for €204,000 ($280,800) on 29 November 2013 at the Auctionata Fine Art Auction, Berlin, setting a new world record for a tapestry sold online.
