Sotheby's London Auction

Liubov Popova
Still Life with Tray
Sold £1,700,500
Sotheby’s London Nov. 26, 2007

Sotheby’s total was £38.6 million ($79.8 million), a new high for a series of Russian sales. Its evening sale of Russian art on Nov. 26 totaled £25,731,100 ($53,137,295) and set new records for 12 Russian artists. [from artnet]
Liubov Popova was one artist to set new auction records.

And The Most Expensive Contemporary Chinese Artist is...

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has broken all records for Chinese contemporary art.

Cai’s 14 screens painting, done in gunpowder and ink, sold for $9.5 million at an auction in Hong Kong to an anonymous bidder on Nov. 25

And The Most Expensive Contemporary Brazilian Artist will be announced on January 23rd.

Guess the Artist

Chen Cheng-Po at Christie’s in Hong Kong

The Christie's autumn auction sales, expected to net $231 million. It run next week in Hong Kong.


Danshui at Sunset, a calm Taiwan port oil painting by Chen Cheng-Po could become one of the most expensive Chinese paintings ever sold.
It goes under hammer at Christie’s auction on 28 October.

In a strongbox for 40 years Who?...

Joan Miro BLUE STAR May Fetch $10 M
At AGUTTES
TABLEAUX XIX° ET MODERNES
It would be auctioned on 21 December 2007, at the Aguttes auction house in Paris.
Joan Miro's painting BLUE STAR and others 10 pieces signed by Picasso, Leger, and Juan Gris, which was conserved in a strongbox for 40 years will be up for auction. Thanks!

Message to Regia Marinho's art collectors.
Don't keep it in a box. RegiaArt is for people's eyes.