What to buy art for you? Visit art galleries and museums, enjoy the pictures in the living room your favorite painters? Imagine you are a collector of art, which has an infinite amount of money and you want to buy art, you’ve dreamed about your whole life. To do this, you decide to wear the best costume and visit the world’s largest art auction houses. Below are some brief details about the five largest art auction houses in the world.
Christie
Christie, one of the world’s leading art business and global auctions, is named after its founder, James Christie, who led the first sale in London in 1766. Private sales in 2009 were 2.1 billion billion/.3. Christie’s has 53 offices in 32 countries and 10 halls rooms around the world and offers over 450 sales annually in over 80 categories, including all the fine and applied art, jewelry, photographs, collectibles, wine and much more. Sinipot In November 2006, in May 2007 and June 2007, the company hosting the five best-selling art auctions all the time.
Sotheby
Company Sotheby’s, founded in 1744, is one of the world’s leading auction houses, art, paintings, antiques, jewelry, sculptures and precious objects, with a global network of more than 100 offices and salesroom. In 2000, Sotheby’s first international art auction house to auction on the Internet. Use MySotheby, you can follow and create a lot of wish lists that can automatically update new works became available. In addition, Sotheby’s opened its traditional salesroom auctions through the eBay Internet auction bid service.
At present, it was the most expensive painting ever sold, No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock, is sold by private sale through Sotheby’s, in 2006.
Bonhams
One of the world’s fastest growing auction houses, it is also the world’s oldest and largest brokerage is art and antiques that still manages auctioneers was founded in 1793 in London. Bonhams has a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives in 25 countries, and sales were held in Britain, the U.S. managed from Sydney, France, Monaco, Hong Kong and Dubai. In May 2007, launched Bonhams biannual South African sales, becoming the first international auction house to sell in South African arts abroad.
Dorotheum
Founded in 1707, Dorotheum is the largest auction house in central Europe, and one of the leading auctioneers worldwide. Dorotheum hosts approximately 600 auctions per year and more than 100 experts involved in more than 40 units. The key to art classes in Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Old Masters and 19th century paintings, where there are several categories of antiques. Dorotheum hosted almost daily auctions of paintings, antiques, furniture and jewelry.
Stockholm Auktionsverk
It is the world’s oldest auction house, founded in 1674 in Sweden. Stockholm Auktionsverk owns more than 70 auctions days a year, more than 50,000 items in a bid. In addition, to serve the domestic market for art is Stockholm Auktionsverk strongly represented in the lively Russian art market.
Now that you have read this brief guide to the art auction houses to remember – if you have money and artwork that you want to buy that are for sale, purchase process is easy. General guidelines are as follows: By registering to bid, bid, pay, picking up or sending a new property. Good luck!