A man named Oliver Chanler didn’t think much of anything about the painting that hung inside his parent’s library in Geneseo, N.Y.
George Washington was always “just there,” he said.
However, after his mother died 10 years ago appraisers identified the canvas as an original painting of the first president of the United States, drawn by Washington’s [...]

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This was the fire sale to beat all fire sales.
An eclectic batch of artworks that once adorned the corporate offices of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. sold for $1.35 million yesterday at Freeman’s Auctioneers in Philadelphia.
While the tally for the 283 lots was almost double the projected total of as much as $760,800, it represented no [...]

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Lehman Brothers is about to auction off much of the art that lined the walls of its ex-world headquarters in Times Square.
Several hundred pieces from the Lehman Brothers’ collection will be put up for auction at Freeman’s in Philadelphia on November 1. The auction showcases modern and contemporary art with works by Andy Warhol, Alexander [...]

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What is expected to be the biggest sale of privately owned art will take place in Paris early next year when the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent’s collection goes up for auction. Yesterday Christie’s unveiled details of items that are expected to fetch up to $480 million.
Saint Laurent, who in the words of one [...]

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A small drawing of a group of very civilized rabbits tickled the art world by selling for over $500,000 in London recently.
Expected to sell for about $80,000 at Sotheby’s in London, the illustration, ”The Rabbits’ Christmas Party: The Departure” by Beatrix Potter, author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, instead found several buyers willing to [...]

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