Press Releases from Ravenel Art (10 total)
Ravenel Art Hosts Unveiling for Xu Bing's sculpture "The Phonenixes" in Beijing
Xu Bing’s towering sculptural masterpiece ‘The Phoenixes” will be unveiled at a ceremony at the Today Art Museum in Beijing on Saturday March 27 at 4pm. The truly impressive 2 Phoenixes are colossal in size, measuring 15 meters in height, 28 meters in length, 8 meters in width, and weighing in at 12 tons. On Saturday afternoon 6 large cranes will be present to position the sculpture into place for…
Ravenel Autumn Auction Modern and Contemporary Asian Art Taipei 2009
Ravenel is delighted to announce that our Autumn Auction of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art will take place in the Fubon Center in Taipei on Sunday, 6th December 2009. With recent auction results in Hong Kong pointing to a recovery in the art market especially in Chinese contemporary art, Ravenel is anticipating a very strong showing in its Taipei Auction, and in our 10th anniversary year, are very excited as…
Ravenel Art's 10th Anniversary Spring Auction of Modern and Contemporary Asian A …
Ravenel Art, once again, has set the standard for auctions of modern and contemporary Asian art with outstanding results at its Taipei Spring auction on Sunday June 7, 2009. The total amount realized at the auction was 212, 804, 000 NT Dollars, 6, 507, 768 million US Dollars including commission. 77.7% of lots were sold, 136/175, with a value of lots sold at 111.4%. A truly great result in…
Ravenel Art Sponsors Louvre’s ‘Sculptures in Movement’ Exhibition in Asia
Ravenel Art Group as part of its 10th anniversary celebrations in 2009 is sponsoring a special exhibition in Asia from the Louvre Museum in Paris. Entitled ‘Sculptures in Movement’ the exhibition is made up of eighteen replicas of sculptures from the Louvre’s ‘Touching Exhibition’, which was originally conceived as a way to introduce art to the visually impaired.
The ‘touching exhibition’ was first introduced in 1995 in the Louvre and became…
Ravenel Art's Autumn Sales of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art Reach USD16.6 Mi …
Ravenel Art’s recent successes with its auctions of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art in Hong Kong on December 1 and Taipei on December 7 point to a market that is still alive and kicking even with the major global economic downturn. The combined total of USD 16.6 million was slightly above the USD 16.5 million total for its spring auction in Taipei on June 1, 2008.
Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art…
Ravenel Art's Taipei Auction Topped by Cai Guo Qiang and Zhang Xiaogang
Once again for Ravenel Art, the auction auditorium in the Fubon National Conference Center on Sunday December 7, 2008 was packed with more than 500 people and 250 registered bidders but bidding reflected the new realities of a challenging market. Total sales reached USD 7, 245, 540, which was 66.41% of value, a very respectable result in difficult market conditions. 102 of 147 lots were sold representing 69.39%.
As has been…
Ravenel Art Enjoys Success with First Hong Kong Auction
Ravenel Art surprised the art world with a very successful first auction of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art in Hong Kong on Monday December 1, 2008. As other auction houses struggle in a strained market, Ravenel, the leading Taipei based art auction house, used its experience and knowledge of the market to present a group of very high quality artworks.
The auction hall in the Four Season’s Hotel was thronged with…
Ravenel Art presents Cai Guo Qiang's 'Descending Wolves for the Guggenheim Inter …
Ravenel Art will present four works in its Taipei auction on Sunday December 7 by the renowned Chinese Contemporary Artist Cai Guo-Qiang who uses explosives to create magnificent works of art. His ‘Descending Wolves for the Guggenheim International Gala’, estimate US$812, 500 – US$1, 031, 300 is a major highlight of the auction.
This atmospheric and powerful composition was created for the Guggenheim International Gala exhibition in 2006. Cai is now…
Ravenel Art Presents Four Important Works by Zeng Fanzhi at its Hong Kong and Ta …
Four important works from Zeng Fanzhi’s most recent periods will be offered in Ravenel Art’s Hong Kong and Taipei auctions this autumn. ‘Red Clouds’, estimate HK$6 – 8 million and ‘Man and Bamboo’, estimate HK$4.8 – HK$ 6.8 million will come under the hammer at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong on Monday December 1. ‘Blue Sky’, estimate NT$18 – 26 million and ‘Untitled No. 7’ from his landscape…
Ravenel Art will hold first Hong Kong auction of Modern and Contemporary Asian A …
Ravenel Art Group is pleased to announce it’s first Hong Kong auction of Contemporary and Modern Asian Art on Monday December 1, 2008.
The Hong Kong art market has now become the third most important in the world after New York, and London and is attracting many regional auction houses whose sales there have become a major focus for both local and international collectors.
Ravenel Art, the leading art auction house…
