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The Barakat Gallery is an antiquities dealership with locations in London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Seoul. [1] Barakat is considered to have one of the largest collection of ancient art for sale in the world, and one of the largest collections in private hands, at around 40,000 items with total valuation of over $1.5 billion USD according to several sources.
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Sumerian dignitary, Uruk, circa 3300-3000 BCE. National Museum of Iraq. [3] [4] Fragment of a Bull Figurine from Uruk, c. 3000 BCEVotive sculptures in the form of small animal figurines have been found at Uruk, using a style mixing naturalistic and abstract elements in order to capture the spiritual essence of the animal, rather than depicting an entirely anatomically accurate figure.
The sale of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers was the first time a "modern" (in this case 1888) painting became the record holder. Old master paintings had previously dominated the market. [ 3 ] In contrast, there are currently only nine pre-1875 paintings among the listed top 89, and none created between 1635 and 1874.
Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University, San Bernardino, California, USA; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, USA [85] Museum of Us, San Diego, California, USA [86] Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA [87] Sir John Soane's Museum, London, England [88]
The musical instrument, crafted in 1714 by Stradivari, the luthier most famously associated with the violin, sold for $11.3 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York Friday.
Phoenix Ancient Art, located in Geneva, New York City and Brussels, is a second-generation antiquities dealer specializing in Greek and Roman ancient art. [1] Its works of art have been purchased by arts and antiquities private collectors as well as museums such as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre Museum in Paris.