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Important Painting "Wild Animals Are Endangered" by Maria Lassnig at Dorotheum’s Contemporary Art Sale on 23 June 2021

The star lot at Dorotheum’s Contemporary Art sale on 23 June 2021 is one of Austrian artist, Maria Lassnig’s, most important and prophetic paintings.…

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17th century Flemish and Netherlandish Paintings in the Old Master Paintings sale on 8th June 2021

From the beauty of refined, jewel-like floral arrangements to hard-drinking peasants fighting in the mud, both the high and the low elements of 17th…

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Jugendstil auction on 7 July 2021 at Dorotheum

Every object “must bear a distinct mark of individuality, beauty and precise execution”, wrote Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the founder of the Arts and…

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Dorotheum to auction Empress Elisabeth’s lace jacket on 20th May

Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898) was the fashion icon of her time and was long considered the most beautiful woman in Europe. Her clothes…

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Artemisia Gentileschi and her contemporaries at Dorotheum’s Old Master Paintings sale on 8 June 2021

The Old Master Paintings sale on 8 June, which takes place within the framework of Dorotheum’s Classic Week, includes a selection of significant 17th…

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10 May 2021: Design sale at Dorotheum

For about a year now, spending time at home, (“Zuhausen”, as Jonathan Meese put it) has become a big topic. Many took advantage of the situation to…

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Spring auctions at Dorotheum: Classic and Contemporary Week in June

Dorotheum’s two major international auction weeks will both take place in June. From 2 to 8 June 2021, Old Masters, 19th century paintings and works…

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Dorotheum Annual Review 2020: Through innovation, continuity. Thanks to the adoption of unprecedented on-line activity, this challenging year has seen…

Despite the on-going international crisis, Dorotheum has met the challenges of 2020 very well. The auction house, the largest in the German-speaking…

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7 December 2020: Dorotheum’s Art Nouveau sale with a special focus on works by Josef Hoffmann

‘Progress through beauty’ is a principle that definitely applies to the works of universal genius Josef Hoffmann. It is also the subtitle of the…

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Top prices at Dorotheum auction November 25th, 2020

There was great interest from international buyers in Part I of the Contemporary Art auction on November 25th 2020, with a large number of bidders…

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