Auction Houses Research Papers

This article examines the exhibitions and sales of Yuanmingyuan (or "Summer Palace") loot taken from China in October 1860 by two soldiers in the Anglo-French armies-James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863) and Captain Jean-Louis de... more

European writers frequently use 'forgery' to imply criminal deceit and 'fake' to imply it does not. Is motivation an important and useful basis for a distinction between the two?

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- by Hannah Marks
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  Art History, Authorship Attribution, Art Law, Fine Arts

It must have been in my very prime of collecting, at least 15 years ago, that I saw a fibula on Ebay, said to have been found in the area of Staraya Ladoga and described as being 'Viking/from the Viking Age'. Now, as I have said in the... more

This is an article on collecting Viking Age artefacts and a warning to all collectors whereby I am adressing an experience I had with an auction house, in December 2015. In general it is addressing to be very cautious towards all online... more

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- by Thomas Kamphuis
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  Viking identities, Auctions, Forgery, Fakery, Fraud, Collecting (Art)

Pizarro, Jerónimo, and Filipe, Teresa, "Livros, objectos, manuscritos e fotografias: doação e venda" (2020). Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies, No. 17, Spring, pp. 230-349. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University... more

Pizarro, Jerónimo, and Filipe, Teresa, "Livros, objectos, manuscritos e fotografias: doação e venda" (2020). Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies, No. 17, Spring, pp. 230-349. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/0wqk-qf64

Palavras-chave
Fernando Pessoa, Literatura Portuguesa, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Espólio 3, Biblioteca particular de Fernando Pessoa.

Resumo
De forma necessariamente subjectiva, este artigo apresenta um panorama geral do actual estado do espólio do poeta português Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). Declarado como Tesouro Nacional em 15 de Setembro de 2009, os seus documentos encontram-se à guarda da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Espólio 3, e da Casa Fernando Pessoa, em Lisboa. Mas antes desta declaração e, desde então, diversos manuscritos, livros, fotografias, assim como, outros objectos, continuam a vir a conhecimento público a partir de doações de particulares, a ser localizados em coleções particulares e a surgir em diversos leilões, nacionais e internacionais. Tendo em consideração que um certo grau de incompletude é, porventura, inerente a qualquer colecção, o presente artigo propõe inventariar os acontecimentos mais significativos dos últimos quatro anos, e sublinha a necessidade de criação de meios legais para prevenir maior dispersão dos documentos de modo a conferir ao espólio do autor a valorização há muito merecida.

Keywords
Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Literature, National Library of Portugal, Estate 3, Fernando Pessoa’s Private Library.

Abstract
In a necessarily subjective way, this paper aims to present an overview of the present situation of the Estate of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Declared as National Treasure on the 15th of September 2009, it is mainly held at the National Library of Portugal, Estate 3, and at the Casa Fernando Pessoa, in Lisbon. But prior to this declaration and since then, several of Pessoa’s manuscripts, books, photos, and other objects, continue to come to public knowledge from private donations, and have also been located in private collections, as well as in a number of auctions. Considering that a certain degree of incompletude is somewhat inherent to any kind of collection, it is this paper’s goal to show a rationale of the last four years, and reinforce the need to create legal means to prevent further dispersion and to give the author’s Estate the value it long deserves.

Léa Saint-Raymond, "Au son de la trompette. Les ventes aux enchères publiques à Bordeaux, de la Restauration aux années 1930", Revue Historique de Bordeaux et du Département de la Gironde, n°23, 2017, p. 187-207.

This article examines the exhibitions and sales of Yuanmingyuan (or “Summer Palace”) loot taken from China in October 1860 by two soldiers in the Anglo-French armies – James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863) and Captain Jean-Louis de... more

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- by Louise Tythacott
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  Art, Chinese Art, Collecting and Collections, History of Collecting

"Sleepers" are artworks or collectibles that are undervalued because one or more characteristics go unrecognized. This article discusses 12 sleepers that have been sold at auction on the antiquity market since 2007 whose attribution as... more

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- by James Marrone
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  Art Law, Provenance research, Antiquities Market, Auction Houses

Beyond Borders – The key for art market power Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida (Lisbon, Portugal) 2-3 November 2020 The present conference seeks to counteract the frequent tendency of scholars of art market studies to mainly focus their... more

Beyond Borders – The key for art market power
Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida (Lisbon, Portugal)
2-3 November 2020

The present conference seeks to counteract the frequent tendency of scholars of art market studies to mainly focus their attention on collectors, rather than on suppliers and intermediaries. In this spirit, we urge researchers to reflect upon the generic idea according to which these art market players are all the more powerful because they have a multinational presence, specifically various branches in several countries.

For example Christie’s and Sotheby’s, multinational corporations, now dominate the secondary art market, but we can also cite earlier examples such as the Parisian dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who conquered America, the firm Goupil & Cie, the New Yorker Knoedler, who established himself on the European market, or Agnew’s, the Duveen brothers, the Islamic art dealer Dikran Kelekian and, for Asian art objects, the firm Yamanaka & Co.

The purpose of this conference, therefore, is to question this rule of thumb, according to which the leaders of the art market are also those who have been able to conquer foreign countries and who also own several branches of their business.

Website

https://beyondborders2020.weebly.com/

Organisation

ARTIS - Institute of Art History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon
École Normale Supérieure (Paris)

Organising Committee

Vera Mariz - ARTIS - Institute of Art History, FLUL
Léa Saint-Raymond - École Normale Supérieure (Paris)

Scientific Committee

Adelaide Duarte - Instituto de História da Arte, NOVA/FCSH
Agnès Penot-Lejeune - Independent Researcher
Christian Huemer - Belvedere Research Center
Cléa Patin - Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
Diana J. Kostyrko - RSHA, Australian National University
Elizabeth Pergam - Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Filip Vermeylen - Erasmus University Rotterdam
Frances Fowle - Edinburgh College of Art
Maria João Baptista Neto - ARTIS - Institute of Art History, FLUL
Marta Perez-Ibanez - Independent Researcher
Natasha Degen - FIT, State University of New York
Sandra van Ginhoven - Getty Research Institute
Yaëlle Biro - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Executive Committee
Lúcia Marinho - ARTIS - Institute of Art History, FLUL

Submission guidelines

We welcome papers on the conference topics and other themes as long as they are aligned with the conference general goals.

The language of the conference will be English and the submissions should include:

• Title of the proposal;
• Identification of the applicant: name, institutional affiliation, country and e-mail;
• Abstract of 400 words or less;
• Short professional bio up to 100 words.

All proposals must be submitted in Word format to conference.beyondborders@gmail.com with vera.mariz@letras.ulisboa.pt and lea.saint-raymond@ens.fr in cc.

The proposed contributions will be reviewed and a selection will be made by the Scientific Committee, through a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in a book.

Deadlines

February 15, 2020: Proposals submission
April 2020: Note of acceptance
December 18, 2020: Full paper submission

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- by Léa Saint-Raymond and +1
  Vera Mariz
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  Economic History, Art History, Art Economics and Markets, Globalization

Politický vývoj v povalecnem Ceskoslovensku, zejmena po unoru 1948, s sebou jako důsledek boje proti „poražene“ spolecenske třidě nesl radikalni vlastnicko – majetkove a strukturalně-socialni změny. Clanek v teto souvislosti poukazuje na... more

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Pizarro, Jerónimo, and Filipe, Teresa, &quot;Livros, objectos, manuscritos e fotografias: doação e venda&quot; (2020). Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies, No. 17, Spring, pp. 230-349. Brown Digital Repository.... more

Pizarro, Jerónimo, and Filipe, Teresa, &quot;Livros, objectos, manuscritos e fotografias: doação e venda&quot; (2020). Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies, No. 17, Spring, pp. 230-349. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/0wqk-qf64 Palavras-chave Fernando Pessoa, Literatura Portuguesa, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Espólio 3, Biblioteca particular de Fernando Pessoa. Resumo De forma necessariamente subjectiva, este artigo apresenta um panorama geral do actual estado do espólio do poeta português Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). Declarado como Tesouro Nacional em 15 de Setembro de 2009, os seus documentos encontram-se à guarda da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Espólio 3, e da Casa Fernando Pessoa, em Lisboa. Mas antes desta declaração e, desde então, diversos manuscritos, livros, fotografias, assim como, outros objectos, continuam a vir a conhecimento público a partir de doações de particulares, a ser localizados em coleções particulares e a surgir em diversos leilões, nacionais e internacionais. Tendo em consideração que um certo grau de incompletude é, porventura, inerente a qualquer colecção, o presente artigo propõe inventariar os acontecimentos mais significativos dos últimos quatro anos, e sublinha a necessidade de criação de meios legais para prevenir maior dispersão dos documentos de modo a conferir ao espólio do autor a valorização há muito merecida. Keywords Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Literature, National Library of Portugal, Estate 3, Fernando Pessoa’s Private Library. Abstract In a necessarily subjective way, this paper aims to present an overview of the present situation of the Estate of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Declared as National Treasure on the 15th of September 2009, it is mainly held at the National Library of Portugal, Estate 3, and at the Casa Fernando Pessoa, in Lisbon. But prior to this declaration and since then, several of Pessoa’s manuscripts, books, photos, and other objects, continue to come to public knowledge from private donations, and have also been located in private collections, as well as in a number of auctions. Considering that a certain degree of incompletude is somewhat inherent to any kind of collection, it is this paper’s goal to show a rationale of the last four years, and reinforce the need to create legal means to prevent further dispersion and to give the author’s Estate the value it long deserves.

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- by Teresa Filipe
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  Photographs, Cultural Heritage, Literature, Heritage Studies

Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS)
Séminaire interne du prof. Gonçalo Santos (présentation de ma recherche)
Communication orale du 22.01.2018

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- by Claire Bouillot
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- 4
  Endangered Species, Hong Kong, Ivory Carving, Auction Houses

Auction Houses

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