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The candelabra of the Chain Bridge are up for auction
In August, the fourteen candelabra of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge will be sold by auction.
Owned by the Municipality of Budapest, the collection will be sold by a public, one-round electronic auction starting at 10 a.m. on 14 August 2023. The candelabra are of various types, ranging from complete,
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Klimt’s last painting sets European record
Lady with a Fan sold by Sotheby’s became the most expensive painting ever to sell at auction in Europe.
Klimt’s Dame mit Fächer (Lady with Fan) recently hammered for £74 million. With a total payout of £85.3 million, including fees and expenses, it set a European auction
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Priceless Baroque painting stolen by the Nazis returned to Poland
There are a growing number of similar cases where works of art with an obscure past are put up for auction, where the truth about their past comes to light.
Alessandro Turchi’s Maria with Child, a 16th-century painting, was returned to Poland from Japan under an agreement between the
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Charity auction to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Utcáról Lakásba! Egyesület
The homeless charity is holding two auctions simultaneously on the occasion of its birthday, with many Hungarian artists offering their artworks or personal items.
The Utcáról Lakásba! Egyesület (“From Street to Home! Association”) has been working for ten years to make it a matter of course for as many people
These were the stars of the global and regional art market in 2022
Auction houses had a busy year in 2022, with the world’s financial difficulties not yet showing up in art sales, and record sales in the region and around the world.
Although the global economy took a big hit last year, this was not reflected in art sales: a growing
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Leading the Hungarian art market with innovations
The Virág Judit Gallery and Auction House in Budapest opened its doors twenty-five years ago. Since its birth, the gallery has passed several milestones: they have set numerous records in the Hungarian auction scene, and over the years they have also introduced a number of innovations that placed them in
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Gödöllő Applied Arts House is launching a fundraising event series
The Tükröződések (Reflexions) event series will feature around 150 works by 56 contemporary artists and designers. The fundraising campaign is organized with the aim to support the renovation of the Gödöllő Applied Arts House and thereby provide the right conditions for the complex art program of the workshop.
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Tivadar Csontváry-Kosztka's painting, Mysterious Island, set a new auction record in Hungary
The last two years have transformed the domestic art trade, making hybrid auctions more commonplace and helping to broaden the collector base. The growing interest in contemporary art and the value growth of artworks is clearly demonstrated by the many lifetime records and the fact that the average price of
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Dóra Maurer oeuvre record at Virág Judit Gallery's contemporary auction
Dóra Maurer’s installation “3 out of 5” sold for an oeuvre record prize of 31 million HUF at the Judit Virág Gallery’s auction of post-war and contemporary works.
The results of the Virág Judit Gallery’s auction of post-war and contemporary works also confirm the worldwide trend that
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Karl Lagerfeld's coolest objects go under the hammer
Wallpaper gives you an exclusive look inside the legendary designer’s home before all the treasures are sold.
Karl Lagerfeld, the former creative director of Chanel, passed away in February 2019, and his former furniture and objects are now on sale at Sotheby’s December auctions. Lagerfeld had several apartments
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Tom Hanks' caravan is up for auction
The silver shimmering Airstream has been Hanks’ faithful companion on the set since the nineties, with a number of special relics decorating the mobile home.
The actor’s Limited Excella Travel Trailer was manufactured in 1992, and Tom Hanks bought the caravan to avoid spending time on set in uncomfortable
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A car model traveling on both land and water goes under the hammer
A yellow 1967 Amphicar Model 770, which can travel on both land and water, is up for auction until the end of the week.
The amphibious vehicle was originally designed by the German Hans Trippel in 1959 and was unveiled at the New York Auto Show in 1961. Of the
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A nearly seventy-year-old electric vehicle goes under the hammer
Rm Sotheby’s puts a Taylor-Dunn Trident, a vintage electric vehicle from the ‘60s on auction.
The Taylor-Dunn model was born in southern California in the mid-1950s, running on three wheels and powered originally by an electric motor with only one horsepower. While LA’s streets today are ruled by
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Virtual furniture goes under the hammer online | Andrés Reisinger
Argentinian designer Andrés Reisinger has sold his pieces of virtual furniture at an online auction.
Reisinger became known for his surreal, dreamlike, 3D visualizations. His latest collection is called The Shipping, and the extraordinary quality of its pieces is that in addition to their visual stimuli, they can also be