Some highlights from Sotheby’s Old Master sale tomorrow.
First, a fine study of a philosopher by Joseph Wright of Derby, probably late1760s. Wright employed a number of older men as models for the grey-haired sage figures in his paintings. This one hasn’t cleaned his fingernails!

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Three of my paintings were sold this month. Congratulation to collectors from Ukraine!

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Jamie Wyeth's portrait of Andy Warhol sitting with his dachshund Archie achieves $87,500, surpassing its high estimate.

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Sotheby’s to Follow Sanyu Record with Quartre Nus This Spring in Hong Kong https://t.co/ATjnj7Y57i

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Following the record-breaking price for a work by achieved at Hong Kong in October, another iconic masterpiece by the Chinese émigré Quatre Nus, is set to lead Sotheby’s Modern Art sale in Spring 2020.

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Sotheby’s Hong Kong is celebrating Warhol and Basquiat's friendship through an extensive exhibition

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Ahead of Evening and Day sales this Tuesday and Wednesday in discover the visual language of Marc Chagall and trace the artist’s visual vocabulary through his long and illustrious oeuvre: https://t.co/v9kogvDYoM

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When I see these estimates for good but not great Gilliams, $600-800k at Sotheby’s, $1.2-1.6 at Christie’s for a similar, larger painting, I’m so happy that bought our 1972 drape, 15x 30 feet, a couple of years ago.

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Dün yapılan Sotheby’s müzayede sitesi satışında Ludwing Deutsch, 1904 satranç oynayanlar tablosu. 759.000 İngiliz Sterlini
5.635.730,60 Türk Lirasına satıldı.

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Masterworks of contemporary printmaking highlight Sotheby's Prints & Multiples Auction https://t.co/lulBOlYmii

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Belfast's Sir John Lavery known for his portraits! 'The Honeymoon' (1921) sold for £915,200, Christie's London, May 2006! Oil on canvas. 37 x 28 in. (94 x 71 cm.) 'Lady Evelyn Farquhar' (1912) sold for £748,000, Sotheby's London, May 2007! Oil on canvas. 184 x 120.5 cm.

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A beautifully captured "masth" elephant, at its peak energy. The details in this painting are amazing, down to spots on its skin and hair.

"A Large Caparisoned Elephant"
20th century
North India, Rajasthan, Kota
opaque pigments w/ gold on paper
Sotheby's

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Detail: Magnolia and Peony window from the feigenspan mansion, Newark. Tiffaby Studios. c.1905.
Image: Sothebys

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Maurice de Vlaminck, Marine aux Voiliers (Sotheby's)

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Japanese artist monumental as well as the largest work by the artist ever sold at Knife Behind Back, fetched HK$196 m (US$25 m) at contemporary evening sale in last weekend, smashing the artist's previous auction record.

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Hong Kong Contemporary Art sales realized HK$824 million (US$ 105 million), achieving the highest totaling series of sales ever staged in Asia and breaking seven new personal records for Asian and western

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Monumental Yoshitomo Nara canvas leads Sotheby's HK Contemporary Art auctions 2019 https://t.co/KqMUmrANA2

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