Author Archives: Laurie Hurwitz

Sotheby’s Zurich sale of Swiss art brought in a total of CHF 15.85 million ($13.8 million) on June 14. Of 113 lots offered, 80, or 71 percent were sold. Read More

A rare stone sculpture of a head by Amedeo Modigliani sold for €43.2 million ($52.6 million) in the evening sale of Impres­sionist and modern art at Christie’s Paris on June 14, a world record for a work by the artist and a record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction in France. Read More

In early June, two sales at Sotheby’s Paris, one of Impressionist and modern art and another of contemporary art, achieved a total of E31.3 million ($38.5 million), far surpassing the overall estimate of E14.9 million/21 million. Read More

A number of contemporary paintings and works on paper surpassed their high estimates at a sale held on April 13 at Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris, with the star of the auction being the Indian painter Syed Haider Raza (b. 1922), who lives and works in France. Read More

An auction of Postwar and contemporary art at Espace Tajan in Paris on May 5 brought in a total of E1.3 million ($1.7 million) for 175 lots, with excellent results for several artists. Read More

The 19th Salon du Dessin, held March 24–29 at the Palais de la Bourse, the former Paris stock exchange, was “even more profitable than last year’s,” according to the drawings fair’s president, Hervé Aaron, of the Didier Aaron gallery. Read More

On April 2 at Drouot Richelieu in Paris, auctioneer Claude Aguttes organized a sale of modern art featuring an important ensemble of ­20th-century European and Russian art. Read More

Two sales at Tajan in Paris last month yielded a number of surprisingly strong results for individual works. Read More

This year’s Art Paris fair, held March 18–22 at the Grand Palais, was the first organized by Lorenzo Rudolf, the event’s new general and strategic director. Read More

The Alexandre and Odile Loewy Col­lection of modern art, which was sold on March 24 at Sotheby’s in Paris, brought in a total of E3.2 million ($4.2 million), with 19, or 90.5 percent, of the 21 lots sold and a remarkable 99.5 percent sell-through rate by value. Read More

Christian Parisot, an art historian and specialist on Amedeo Modigliani who had been convicted on fraud charges in Paris, was sentenced in mid-January to a two-year suspended sentence and a E50,000 ($70,000) fine by a French court of appeals. Read More

French journalists, collectors, galleries and auction houses continue to debate the future of the droit de suite—a royalty payable to an artist or his or her heirs when a work is resold, either during the artist’s lifetime or for a 70-year period following his or her death. Read More