Spears WMS Magazine The timeshare tycoon, the former swimwear model, the Florida home that’s bigger than the White House – and the documentary that led to a lawsuit. Ivan Lindsay asks David and Jackie Siegel about trouble in paradise IT’S A WARM, sunny evening in central Florida. The Spanish moss hanging down from the oaks
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  Russian art week was a success after a buying spree that broke several previous records with pounds 50m changing hands, the highest auction turnover since before the credit crunch recession. Dealers also reported good trade behind the scenes.  The bi-annual event saw Mayfair overflowing with Russians as they flew in from the four corners
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Russian week in London is once again upon us and, with the current strength of the Russian economy and worldwide stock markets achieving new highs, promises to be  another record-breaking event. Auctions of rare and valuable Russian paintings, icons, Fabergé and works of art will be held at the four major auction houses which cover
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Christie’s contemporary art sale in New York raised US$495m.  Even Christie’s themselves described the result as “staggering.”  The sale included works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichenstein and Jackson Pollock and established 16 new world auction records with nine works selling for more than US$10m and 23 for more than US$5m. The top lot was Pollock’s
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Christie’s contemporary art auction set a record this week of US$495m whilst Sotheby’s brought in US$293m.  A few days earlier their sales of Impressionist and Modern art had also brought in hundreds of millions.  The New York Times has recently decided the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben. S. Benanke is now a major patron of the
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London is furthering its claim to be the centre of the Russian art market with exhibitions and its bi annual sales of Russian art at the leading auction rooms.  A recent article by Simon Hewitt in the Huffington Post discussing this and the current exhibitions is listed below.  The article focuses on the non-conformist art of
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Whilst Sotheby’s have entered into a partnership with the government associated auction house GeHua Christie’s have managed to obtain a license to operate independently and are holding their first auction in Shanghai later in the year. It is very hard to obtain true figures of turnover in the Chinese art market because sales are often
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Two 4.5 foot Russian vases formerly belonging to Frank and Merle Buttram. Two large 19th-century Russian vases were sold for $2.7 million recently in a private sale less than a week before they were to be auctioned with a much lower estimate in a Dallas Auction.  This disappointed many Russian buyers who had been considering
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Arkady Rylov (1870-1939)  The Blue Expanse. 1918. Oil on canvas. 109×152 cm. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.        Piotr Konchalovsky (1876-1956) A Green Wineglass. 1933. Oil on canvas. 36×47 cm. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.        Boris Kustodiev (1878-1927) The Bolshevik. 1920. Oil on canvas, 101x141cm. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.      
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Ivan Lindsay, Monday, 8th April 2013 Hot lust, cold hard cash and the fine art of a dirty deal… The story of how Britain lost, and will briefly regain, one of the greatest private collections of Old Masters ever assembled is cause for grief — and rejoicing, says Ivan Lindsay ONE OF THE more interesting events
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