Auctions
Christie’s and Sotheby’s were nearly neck and neck this month with their dueling contemporary-postwar and Impressionist-modern art sales in London. Christie’s pulled ahead when it came to newer work, bringing in $128 million to Sotheby’s $116 million at the...
LONDON — Phillips, the Russian owned boutique-scaled auction house, opened a new chapter in London Thursday evening with a fast-paced and younger auctioneer, Alexander Gilkes, replacing the departed and storied gavel master Simon de Pury.In barely 50 minutes...
LONDON — Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary evening sale performed brilliantly, with Gerhard Richter and Jean-Michel Basquiat taking highest sales, cruising beyond its high estimate here and delivering a toppy £81,668,850 ($127,730,081).Sixty-five...
LONDON — Rich with paintings by Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sotheby’s started off the contemporary auction week here with a workmanlike bang, tallying £74,364,200 ($116,357,664). It blasted past last February's £50.6 million...
LONDON — The international art market continued to show unabated strength and hunger for property tonight as Christie’s delivered a record tally for a mid-season Impressionist-Modern and Surrealist Art evening sale here, hitting £136,462,100 ($213,426,...
The Year of the Snake will be a time of contradictions and polarization, in the economy, the weather — and in the specific markets of art and luxury goods.This is according to Edwin Ma Lai-wah, chairman of Hong Kong Fengshui Master Association and Lu...
LONDON — Sotheby’s opened the London auction season with a mild bang on Monday evening, tallying £121,075,400 ($190,500035) for its Impressionist & Modern evening sale, including a separate section of 21 Surrealist works. The total...
LONDON — That Haunch of Venison will stop representing artists has come as a surprise to many — not least to the gallery staff, blissfully unaware of the plan until just hours before it was announced. A source close to the gallery has described them as being...
Australian street artist Anthony Lister has been taking the urban art world by storm over the past few years with his painterly interpretations of grunge imagery. In well-reviewed exhibitions both at home and abroad, and frequent appearances in leading street...
This week in New York, Christie’s is putting the focus on Old Masters with five separate sales as well as a weeklong series of exhibitions and special events. The auction house will be holding its three annual sales of Old Master...
