Right at the end of this year’s Master Drawings London the Ralph Holland collection was sold at Sotheby’s on the 5th of July. Art historian and collecting connoisseur Ralph Holland (1917-2012) famous for his great love of Italian drawings shaped his collection
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Read MoreWednesday the 5th of December 2012 will surely be remembered by art lovers for quite some time. Not often was there such excitement in salerooms as in the Sotheby´s sale where one of the finest drawings by Raphael was to be sold. The former ‘Chatsworth drawing’ is of exceptional quality and speaks for itself. Raphael made the study of the apostle’s head for his Transfiguration, his last great commission.
Read MoreThe potency of drawings was once again shown at the latest auction at Christie´s Rockefeller Plaza, New York on november the 8th. With a total result of around 12.5 million dollars for only 91 lots, it can be regarded as a very succesful sale for masterworks on paper.
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