Guido RENI (1575-1642)

Sotheby’s is kicking off this year’s calendar of major sales on 20 January with a themed auction in Hong Kong entitled Boundless: Contemporary Art. The sale will be a curated mix of design, art and photography from East and West. Works by Claude Lalanne, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Ufan, Georges Mathieu, Sam Francis, T’ang Haywen, Zao […]

As 7-figure bids become commonplace in the speculative and volatile contemporary segment of the art market, bidding for less publicised older works is still buoyant. The Christie’s and Sotheby’s sales of Old Master Paintings on 8 and 9 July 2008 generated new records with rare masterpieces from private collections.