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According to Art Daily, Sotheby's is gearing up to sell a single-owner collection of original book illustrations that is apparently the most impressive array to ever be auctioned. The auction will take place December 12, 2012 and will feature more than 100 ink and watercolor drawings from all of your most beloved books, including "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "The Tale of Peter Rabbit". From the private collection of film director Michael Winner, the sale is expected to bring in a total of ?1 million (around $1,607,600).
Included in the collection is 18 pieces by Edmund Dulac, specifically illustrations from "The Arabian Nights" and a drawing from Shakespeare's "The Tempest". One of the neatest lots being sold is definitely a drawing from E.H. Shepard, which is the first drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh with Christopher Robin from A.A. Milne's 1926 book. Shepard also drew the beautiful images seen in "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame. Another great choice to relive your childhood comes from Beatrix Potter, who everyone knows for her book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit". The drawing being auctioned pictures a Gentleman Rabbit, sporting a tail-coat, waistcoat, and hat.
The sale also includes works from Kay Nielsen, Arthur Rackham, William Heath Robinson, and John Tenniel.
Vienna has been home to an impressively long list of musical legends, including Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II and Arnold Schönberg, thus being considered by many as the City of Music. Now, according to Pursuitist, for two weeks the piano on which Mozart wrote all of his late concertos will return home to Vienna for the first time since the composer’s death in 1791.
This beautiful instrument was purchased from Anton Walter, the most famous piano maker of his time, and was played almost daily for nine years. Last week this piano returned to its old residence (now a museum) to culminate in a concert of Mozart works.
Mozart’s son, Carl Thomas, donated the piano to the then Cathedral Music Association and Mozarteum after the composer’s death. The piano has since been part of the permanent exhibition at the Mozart family home in Salzburg, Austria.
Now, famous Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov will give a concerto of Mozart’s music on the fortepiano on November 7. “The emotional implications of such an experience are overwhelming,” Melnikov explains. “It’s easily the biggest day of a musician’s life.”
Edvard Munch's "The Scream" 1895 is one of the world's most infamous works of art, picturing a man's pained reaction to witnessing a scream resonate throughout nature, his friends carrying on oblivious to his cries. The pastel work is one of four versions that Munch created, the other three painted, and was sold at a Sotheby's auction back in May for $119.9 million. Whoever bought the drawing knows how badly the public would like to see it in person for themselves so it is now on view at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
According to Art Daily, a spokeswoman assures that the piece of art will be secured in the museum's safest room and will be in the company of two Munch paintings and various lithographs. MoMA has covered the pastel drawing with Plexiglass, to ensure it doesn't get touched or messed with, and will be on loan to the museum until April 2013.
Musician Eric Clapton recently made $34 million on the sale of an abstract painting he owned by German artist Gerhard Richter. If you don't know who Clapton is, you're really showing your young age. The legendary songwriter and guitarist is a three-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, once for his solo work and the other two for his work with The Yardbirds and Cream. Now, does Clapton actually need all this new money he raked in for the painting? Not really, but he and Richter definitely made history with the Sotheby's auction because it’s a new record amount for work by an artist still among the living.
According to Business Insider, Clapton initially bought the painting in 2001 for one tenth of the price, meaning he's made quite the killing on this sale. The identity of the buyer is unknown but may have been of Russian descent. It's no surprise that someone snatched it up though because Richter has become pretty popular among the affluent, with some of his hundreds of paintings in the homes of Roman Abramovich and Lily Safra (both of whom were present at the auction).
In total, all 15 of Richter's abstract works of art up for auction were sold, bringing in a combined total of around $36 million and making up for more than 25 percent of the entire auction's sales.
Art by Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso will be presented at Christie’s Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on November 7, 2012. The featured lot of the evening will be Claude Monet’s oil-on-canvas painting, Nymphéas. It has a pre-auction...
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