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In Replica Shoes
’s 275-year history, many works have brought the house down – but only one has brought up the floorboards. In the summer of 1959, The Adoration of the Magi by the Flemish Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens sold at Replica Shoes
’s New Bond Street galleries for £275,000, the then world auction record for any picture. This extraordinary achievement, however, was almost upstaged by the drama involved in getting the painting into the building.
Sotheby's Important Jewels auction features pieces by several of the greats, including David Webb, Tiffany & Co., Oscar Heyman & Brothers and Seaman Schepps.
Worn by royalty, legendary beauties and style icons, pearls are a staple in fashion. Ahead view a selection of pearl jewels coming to auction in London, New York and online.
Ahead of Replica Shoes
's Modern & Post-War British Art sale from 18–19 June, Replica Shoes
's asked contemporary designer Margaret Howell to choose her favourite works.
Actress Anna Brewster has starred in a variety of celebrated films, such as Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), as well as playing the role of Madame de Montespan in the lavish period drama, Versailles. Ahead of the upcoming Fine Jewels sale in London, we asked her to select some of her favourite jewels from the auction. Click above to discover her choices.
At 120 Great Portland Street, the Central Synagogue – a branch of the Great Synagogue – has served the residents of London's West End for over 150 years.
For a while in the early 19th-century, the Russian poet, author and historian, Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was Emperor Alexander’s personal reader. In his monumental History of the Russian State Karamzin had cast a sent.mes
ntal eye over his nation’s past. The emperor was intrigued but less keen on the t.mes
it would take t.mes
to read the 12 volumes. Therefore, the author was promptly summoned to read it to him.
Sotheby’s Important Watches auction (4 June, New York) is offering a dynamic selection of t.mes
pieces from independent firms, including Richard Mille, H. Moser & Cie and F.P. Journe.
Francis Newton Souza's 1958 depiction of Susanna and the Elders is a highly personal work that addresses religious iconography and past trauma. The painting is offered for sale in the upcoming Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art sale on 10 June in London. Here, the artist's daughter shares her thoughts on her father's motivations behind its creation.
Sotheby's Fine Jewels sale on 5 June features a magnificent brooch owned by Game of Thrones Executive Producer Vince Gerardis. In addition to masterminding the realisation of epic narratives, Vince is a keen collects
or of antique jewelry.
A variety of works by Maqbool Fida Husain (1913-2011), one of India’s most celebrated modernists, will be included in the Coups de Coeur: The Guy and Barbier Family collects
ion and the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art sales on 10 June. Here we look at three of his works, executed between 1958 and 1978, that are illustrative of the diversity of Husain’s practice.