Leon auction sets world records
Leon Gallery’s Magnificent September Auction 2014 last Sept. 13 made numerous “world records,” according to auction director Jaime Ponce de León.
Leon Gallery’s Magnificent September Auction 2014 last Sept. 13 made numerous “world records,” according to auction director Jaime Ponce de León.
Léon Gallery has assembled 164 pieces of artworks, antiques and objets d’art from distinguished provenances for its Magnificent September Auction 2014.
León Gallery’s “Spectacular Midyear Auction” held last June 21 attracted an impressively large crowd. The auction featured at least 153 pieces of artworks, antiques and objets d’art from prestigious provenances.
Leon Gallery will hold its first auction this year, Glorious Easter Auction, on March 22, training the spotlight on antique sacred art objects as the Catholic world observes Lent.
Leon Gallery Fine Arts and Antiques will hold the “Glorious Easter Auction” on March 22, 2 p.m., at Eurovilla 1 Rufino and Legazpi Streets Legazpi Village, Makati City.
A major auction of works of Philippine masters led by National Artist Hernando R. Ocampo will be held on March 8 at Salcedo Auctions in Salcedo Village, Makati City. It is billed, fittingly, as the Important Philippine Art sale. Things get going at 2 p.m.
Colonial and sacred art pieces from the Hispanic era are the highlight of León Gallery’s fifth auction, “Kingly Treasures,” Dec. 7 at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Conference Center.
International Care Ministries (ICM), an organization helping alleviate the impoverished in Negros, Bohol, and Mindanao, held its annual fundraising art auction in Hong Kong recently. The auction raised over HK$3.2 million, or around P17.8 million. The money will be used to fund ICM’s HK$30 million cash budget during the current fiscal year.
Prominent sculptor Eduardo Castrillo is giving back to the community as he auctioned off his works in Castrillo Hands On Care to Bid, Bid to Care. It was an invitation-only auction for the volunteer group Hands On Manila (HOM), in South Forbes, Makati, last Sept. 26.
Despite last-minute questions of provenance on some pieces, León Gallery’s The Magnificent September Auction pushed through at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Conference Center on Sept. 28, achieving a host of firsts for the nascent local auction market scene.
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