News & Features

Georgette Chen and Le Pho at Sotheby's HK Spring Sale

15 March 2017

According to a press release by Sotheby's, Mok Kim Chuan, Sotheby’s head of modern and contemporary southeast asian art said: “This spring, through our global network and long-established trust with connoisseurs, we are honoured to bring to the market exceptional and sought after rarities in our Evening Sale from masters such as Le Pho and Georgette Chen which are illustrative of Southeast Asia’s artistic triumphs. We continue to be encouraged by a vigorous and healthy market that is also supported by the emergence of new artists at auction, notably from Malaysia this season.

Maturing art market

10 March 2017

(From left) The Edge chief commercial officer Sharon Teh, Ho Kong Soon, Datuk Lee Tian Hock, Ho Kay Tat, The Edge Galerie managing director Au Foong Yee and The Edge Galerie general manager Johnni Wong

Masters of the abstract

24 February 2017

Latiff Mohidin’s "Lahar III" (2000) illustrates an intense volcanic eruption executed at its finest.

Paintings by revered Malaysian artists, namely the late Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal, Datuk Ibrahim Hussein, Latiff Mohidin and Jolly Koh will be featured at The Edge Auction on March 5.

Top Guns in Malaysian Art

23 February 2017

Time : 11am-7pm, Feb 23-March 3; 11am-3pm, March 4 . The gallery is closed on Mondays and public holidays.

Date : 23-Feb-2017 - 04-Feb-2017

Venue : THE EDGE GALERIE,
G5-G6 Mont'Kiara Meridin
19, Jalan Duta Kiara, Mont'Kiara
50480 Kuala Lumpur

Website : www.theedgegalerie.com

Contact : 03-6419 0102

Is bidding at auction a privilege or right?

20 February 2017

This article is published with the permission of the author.

The bidder earns the right to bid and has a duty to adhere to the terms and conditions in the "registration" contract.

It has been said that bidding at auction is a privilege and necessarily not a right. I would argue maybe privilege and right are transposed in the above intriguing claim.

Contemporary art that stands the test of time

10 February 2017

Jalaini Abu Hassan’s Alam Benda (1983) watercolour on paper is an early precursor to the tonal quality found in his later series of bitumen works experimented by the artist during his New York stint

Gerhard Richter's "Eisberg" (1982) to go under the hammer at Sotheby's London

3 February 2017

Hong Kong, 3 February 2017 One of the finest landscape paintings of Gerhard Richter career, Eisberg, will come to auction for the first time on 8 March 2017 at Sotheby's London Evening sale of Contemporary Art. The desolately beautiful Eisberg was painted soon after the artist divorce from his first wife Ema in 1981. Gerhard and Ema had been married for 25 years, but by the early 1980s Richter was living with Isa Genzken, a successful young artist.

Missed or misplaced bids?

27 January 2017

This article is published with the permission of the author.

I have held consistently that “missed bids” at auction do not exist and never have.

That contention encompasses that it is the responsibility of the bidder to make his bid known, rather than the responsibility of the auctioneer to necessarily receive the bid.

Painting the Southern Seas

23 January 2017

Live auction credit card chargebacks

13 January 2017

We wrote about credit card chargebacks in 2012, largely looking at when the buyer is out of town — or across the country — and the implications of acceptance and delivery: https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/auctioneers-and-c...

Today, we look more closely at a live auction — where typically the buyer is in person, and simply takes his auction purchase with him after paying with his credit card.