Auctions
Seasoned art collectors and first-time buyers wanting to own an Andy Warhol will get their chance next week when 125 paintings, drawings and photographs by the artist will be auctioned in a week-long cybersale.The global online auction from Feb. 26 through...
TOKYO — Christie’s Japan held a special preview yesterday of Japanese and Korean artworks that will be featured at its March 20th New York auction. The famed auction house celebrated the 40th anniversary of its Tokyo operations earlier this year by moving out...
PARIS — When Piasa opens its new space on the Rue du Bac in April, it will be the first time that a Paris auction house has set up shop on the Left Bank. The architect working on its new location in a former chapel from the 18th century is Charles Zana, who...
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...
