“Carrying this letter is Pietro Paolo the Flemish, my Painter, that I am sending there [to Rome] to copy and paint certain drawings, as more diffusely You will wish from him.” This letter of recommendation written on July 18, 1601 by Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and addressed to Cardinal Alessandro Peretti Montaldo in Rome, […]
Auction Title %lots %value SOLD Arti Decorative del XIX secolo Murano 1890 – 1990 Un secolo di arte vetraria 57,47% 183,68% €2.097.937,50 Thursday night in Cambi’s Auction House halls at Palazzo Serbelloni, the Milanese headquarters, took place the great success of Murano glass with an auction that has beaten even the most optimistic expectations. […]
It is no coincidence that the world record of auction sale of a piece by Gio Ponti has occurred with a single piece, refined and important, such as the low table of the ancient collection of paintings of Palazzo Contini Bonacossi, proposed by Cambi during the last Design auction last December: the style and the […]
The last act of a man who dedicated his whole life to Genoese collecting Last 19 May the auction room of Castello Mackenzie was full, as it had not happened for many years for fine art sales. The atmosphere recalled the Genoese auctions of the early 1980s, when the crowd thronged before the opening of […]
The usual May auction has been a great success for Cambi Auction House Oriental Art department; thanks to a little less than 400 lots, the total hammer price was 4,540,000 euros, buyer’s premium included. The choice to hold, for the first time, either the pre-sale exhibition and the auction at Milan headquarters, turned out […]
The Jesse Tree is an extremely frequent theme in Christian art between the 11th and the 15th century, originating from the conceptual elaboration of Isaiah’s prophecy: “a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit. The spirit of the Lord will rest on Him, the spirit […]
On 17 december 2012 cambi auction house organized the most important oriental art auction ever realized in italy before. The 170 lots sold had reached around 3,200,000 euros, doubling the initial estimates of the entire catalogue. The salesroom, full of buyers coming mainly from Oriental countries, was larger than we could perceive after a fi […]
Since the 1990s, and maybe also before, it was well known that China reserved some surprises, but only with the recent European economical crisis Chinese culture and economical power was able to come out into the open. The last Fine Chinese Works of Art Auction, organised by Cambi last June, exceeded all expectations, confirming the […]