A rare LS Lowry painting has been sold at auction for £530,000 - safeguarding one of Britain’s premier art collections in the process.
Glasgow Docks, which was painted by the Manchester-born artist in 1947, went under the hammer in Edinburgh.
Auctioneers Lyon and Turnbull, who had been expecting it to fetch around £300,000, now believe it has […]
Ten paintings by Pink Floyd founder member Syd Barrett have raised more than £55,000 at auction.
A stool decorated by Barrett fetched £4,400, and a collection of his art reference books a further £4,000.
The paintings were among the contents of Barrett’s home in Cambridge being auctioned following his death in July at the age of 60.
The […]
An exceptionally well-preserved 65 million year-old fossilized dinosaur nest with some broken eggs exposing tiny skeletons is up for auction in Los Angeles on Sunday.
The nest of raptors, fierce predatory dinosaurs, is expected to fetch between $180,000-$200,000.
“It is probably one of the finest dinosaur egg nests in the world. For the tiny skeletons still to […]
Sotheby’s raised 20.2 million pounds ($39.3 million) from a sale of Russian art in London yesterday, as buyers snapped up paintings, porcelain and Faberge works including an imperial snuffbox.
The proceeds fell in the middle of Sotheby’s presale estimate of between 16.5 million pounds and 25 million pounds. About 68 percent of 438 lots were sold, […]
