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    DUKE OF LEINSTER’S SILVER TRAVEL ESSENTIALS AT SOTHEBY’S, NEW YORK

    Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
    An ingeniously fitted Irish silver and rosewood travelling necessaire for the Duke of Leinster crops up at Sotheby’s sale of Russian works of art in silver in New York on April 16.
    The wooden case, banded in pierced silver, opens at the top and bottom. There is a coat of arms at the top, a pair of nesting beakers to the base.  It is fitted with all the accoutrements necessary to a travelling gentleman.  There is a scissors, tweezers, toothpick, mirror with folding handle, a botton hook, knife, nail file, blade, compass and even a corkscrew and a pen and ink holder contained in four oval numbered boxes. Just eight and three quarter inches high and complete with retailers mark of Fox of Dublin c1815 it is estimated at $10,000-20,000. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

    The Duke of Leinster’s travelling necessaire.

    The coat of arms to the top.

    The box with fittings.

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    BLUMENFELD RETROSPECTIVE AT SALISBURY CATHEDRAL

    Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

    Helaine Blumenfeld – Messenger of the Spirit, 2006 (bronze). (Click on image to enlarge).

    A retrospective by one of Britain’s leading contemporary sculptors in marble and bronze, Helaine Blumenfeld OBE, takes place at Salisbury Cathedral from April 13 to September 8. Messenger of the Spirit brings together eighteen pieces created throughout a career spanning more than four decades. It includes four new site-specific pieces: Esprit 2013, Mysteries, The Space Within and Flight.

    “When people come into the context of Salisbury Cathedral, they enter the grounds prepared for a spiritual experience” says Blumenfeld. “As the title of the exhibition suggests, art can be the bearer of this message. I have always believed that revelation can emanate from the spirit when our minds are clear enough to receive the impact of it.”

    Salisbury is unique amongst medieval English cathedrals having been built in just 38 years (1220 – 1258) in a single architectural style, early English Gothic. The tower and spire (Britain’s tallest) were added about 50 years later.  As well as a historic building it is a living church and a place of spirituality that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. Salisbury Cathedral is rich in contemporary artworks including pieces by Elisabeth Frink, Gabriel Loire, William Pye and Emily Young. Twelve of the Blumenfeld works will be located inside the Cathedral itself and six monumental works will be outside in the surrounding Cathedral Close.

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    RICHTER WORK THE MARKET HAS BEEN WAITING FOR

    Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

     

    Gerhard Richter Domplatz, Mailand 1968 ($30-40 million). (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR $37,125,000

    Domplatz, Mailand a 20th century masterwork by Gerhard Richter will highlight Sotheby’s spring Contemporary Art evening auction in New York on May 14.  From the Park Hyatt Hotel in Chicago the work came about through a commission from Siemens Elettra to produce a monumental work for their Milan offices in 1968. More than nine feet square the canvas was Richter’s most ambitious work to date and the largest figurative work he had created. It now stands as the epitome of his 1960’s phote-painting canon.  

    The painting hung at Siemens for 30 years.  It was acquired by the Pritzker family at a Sotheby’s auction in London in 1998. It subsequently hung in their Park Hyatt Hotel in Chicago for over a decade. It is being sold by the Hyatt Hotels Corporation and is estimated at $30-40 million. The sale comes just seven months after Sotheby’s established a new benchmark for Richter with Abstraktes Bild (809-4) selling for $34.3 million. Tobias Meyer, Sotheby’s worldwide head of contemporary art said: “This is the work the market has been waiting for and its sale is certain to be an historic event”.  Hyatt intends to continue to exhibit high quality art and will apply a portion of the proceeds to fund selected new acquisitions.

    UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR $37,125,000.

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