#AuctionUpdate# 2013/07/03, Sotheby's L13033, Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale concludes with strong total of £35,048,000. Among all the 48 lots offered, with 1 lot withdrawn (Lot 16), 37 lots were sold and 10 lots were brought in (including 2 lots estimated over £1m).展开全文
Top 9 works of Mark Rothko ever sold at auction out of 292 works in all. 这九幅colour field paintings总共拍得了$438,535,750（不计inflation），折合人民币为¥2,691,469,216。#死而无憾的绳命#展开全文
#AuctionPreview# 2013/05/15, Christie's NY2785之Jean-Michel Basquiat - Dustheads, 1982。估价$25-35m，有望破掉去年11月14日的纪录$26,402,500。This painting provides ample evidence of his unique painterly language that came to define a generation and still heard loudly today. #SAMO#展开全文
西班牙大师Velázquez的存世油画大概只有不到120幅（大部分在英国和马德里的Prado），上拍过的更屈指可数，只有5幅。曾于11年12月7日在Bonhams以£2,953,250成交并创下记录的Portrait of a Gentleman就是其一，将由Otto Naumann呈现在TEFAF展出，靠近荷兰古城Maastricht的朋友千万不要错过。@顶层杂志展开全文
#Top 10# Art Auction Prices of @佳士得国际 LDN1106: Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, 13 February 2013. 上拍74件，成交65件，流拍7件，临时撤拍2件（Roy Lichtenstein和Cy Twombly）。总成交额£81,668,850。Peter Doig、Pierre Soulages和Michelangelo Pistoletto是亮点。@蒋璐阳展开全文
2013/02/13 Christie's LDN1106之Allen Jones - Hatstand, Table and Chair, 1969，估价£1.5-2m。虽然不是第一次看到这组著名的情色三联作，但还是赤裸得让俺不敢直视。面对这以仿真裸体作为桌椅的基本骨架创作的让人在使用和欣赏时想入非非的“YY家具”，我不禁要大吼一嗓，“煤老板们快看过来！”。展开全文
#电影中的名画##SKYFALL# Craig年近知天命但魅力不减，雄性荷尔蒙刷刷地往外喷；Cruz的老公Bardem演的大反派真的跟神经病+白化病附身了似的；还有伏地魔大帝Fiennes，The English Patient是我的最爱没什么好说的。咳咳咳，回归正题，惊喜是片中出现了好多名画，岛国人民对Turner的喜爱之情可见一斑。展开全文
2013/02/12 Sotheby's L13020之Francis Bacon - Three Studies of a Self-Portrait。此次上拍是这组triptych的第二次公开亮相。Bacon在1980年完成后把此画藏在他自己的画室两年，随后私下卖给了他的一个朋友。自06年6月22日在Christie's上拍前，从未公开展出，当时以£3,816,000成交。此番估价£10-15m。展开全文
2013/02/05 Sotheby's L13003之René Magritte - Les Belles Relations, 1967。由Scheidweiler Collection送拍，是Magritte生前完成的倒数第二幅油画。估价GBP 2-3m。“It's a matter of imagining images whose poetry restores to what is known that which is absolutely unknown and unknowable.”展开全文
鳜鱼——富贵有余，元青花鱼藻纹真好看。 （上：the British Museum, London；中：the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York；下：the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka）@倪亦斌 老师，是不是这个motif有好多盘子和罐子？这三个我应该没写错吧？展开全文
#AuctionUpdate# 2012/11/13, Sotheby's N08900: Contemporary Art Evening Sale之Lot 19: Mark Rothko的No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue)在经过5个买家激烈而漫长的争夺后最终以$67m落锤，估价$35-50m，加上佣金以USD 75,122,500成交！几天前在MoMA，一位女士在Rothko的No. 3/No. 13前驻足30分钟，印象深刻展开全文
Boqueria Market is almost like Borough Market in London but a bit less touristy. So many gross animal heads there. Especially the "Caps de Xai" while in Spain--which are these lamb heads, very ghoulish with eyes and teeth still in there and all! But it's said to be yummy. Eww..展开全文
