A rare ancient Greek coin fetched a record-breaking six million dollars at an auction held on May 19 at the Numismatica Ars Classica auction house in Zurich.
A rare ancient Greek coin fetched a record-breaking six million dollars at an auction held on May 19 at the Numismatica Ars Classica auction house in Zurich.
This has been a landmark year for the international art market, with auction houses raking in millions from record sales. Modern Greek art also saw its share of the action, judging from the two big auctions that took place in late November.
King George I of Greece celebrated a decade on the throne in 1876 after the deposition of Otto. The country was in dire economic straits, but, believing that it should not appear to be poor, the monarch ordered 182 gold 50-drachma coins.
The painting is a feast of colors and allegories – the body of the Homeric hero shines under the light as he places three flowers on his bird cage-for-a-head. The ancient philosopher, dressed in a green tunic, is carrying three fish in his hand.
The Goulandris Museum of Modern Art will be holding a silent auction on Tuesday of work by acclaimed Greek artists who were inspired by Kathimerini.
Pierre de Coubertin’s enligtened vision for the modern Olympic Games will be going under the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York in December, Agence-France Presse has reported.
A gold tobacco case that belonged to Greece’s first governor, Ioannis Kapodistrias, was reportedly sold for 73,392 euros at a private auction at Zappeio Hall in Athens.
Nonprofit organization Hydra 21 and the Historical Archives – Museum of Hydra will hold a sale of weapons used during the 1821-32 Greek War of Independence on Saturday, August 5.
Rare and beautiful works of art by some of the most important Greek painters of the 19th and 20th centuries will be up for auction in the Cypriot capital.
This photo taken Tuesday in Paris shows details of a daguerreotype of “Athens, Acropolis, west side” (1842), part of a collection of 42 rare daguerreotypes created by amateur artist Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, with an estimated worth between 700,000 and one million euros.