The oil-on-canvas artwork, painted in 1934, achieved a final price of HK$16,105,000 – an impressive amount - four times higher than its lower estimate.
Original manuscripts of classic songs by Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton will go on auction as part of a collection of rock memorabilia, Sotheby''s said Monday.
A lacquer painting by noted Vietnamese artist, the late Nguyen Gia Tri,
was the second-most expensive work to be sold at the Larasati Auction
in Singapore last weekend.
Buddies Charity Night, a music and auction event to raise money and
support people in Central Viet Nam struggling to cope with flooding,
will take place at the Maia Club in District 7 tomorrow.
An exhibition entitled There''s a Rocket will be held today to help raise
funds for two orphanages, the Ha Noi SOS Village and Thuy An Village in
Ba Vi District.
Works by several popular artists will go under the
hammer at an annual charity dinner in HCM City on Saturday to raise
funds for performing cleft palate operations for Vietnamese children,
this time in Nghe An Province.
