Auctions
NEW YORK — The Impressionist and Modern auction market continued to resist unrealistic estimates at Sotheby’s on Thursday evening, turning in a mixed result and a $163,008,001 tally. That total came close to meeting the low end of the $169,200,000-245,...
NEW YORK — Christie’s had plenty of excuses for a weak evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on Wednesday evening, ranging from terrible weather to a falling stock market and possibly negative reactions to a second term for a Democratic president...
SALE: Post-War and Contemporary ArtLOCATION: Christie’s New YorkDATE: November 14-15, 2012ABOUT: The bar was raised at Christie’s this spring with the house’s landmark postwar and contemporary art auction, which took in $386 million — the highest total ever...
SINGAPORE — François Curiel, the head of Christie’s in Asia, is hard at work preparing for the company’s fall auction in Hong Kong. ARTINFO caught up with him recently while he was in Singapore for the 10th anniversary...
The blockbuster sale Friday evening at Sotheby’s London of Gerhard Richter’s magisterial “Abstraktes Bild (809-4)” from the collection of rocker Eric Clapton set a record for a painting by a living artist, bringing in a staggering £21...
True masterpieces gathered in sufficient numbers mysteriously play each other up. The July auctions in London of Old Masters spectacularly verified the phenomenon, long known to professionals.There is no need for shared stylistic characteristics. A landscape...
LONDON — Powered by a record-shattering Gerhard Richter abstract painting owned by rock legend Eric Clapton, Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale rocked to the tune of £44,146,350 ($70,793,087).The tally hurdled pre-sale expectations of £28.5-39.4 million...
The Chinese art market has now been slowing for more than a year. The cooling which first became evident in Hong Kong last fall became a definite chill in spring, when the market leaders on the Chinese mainland, China Guardian and Poly Auctions,...
LONDON—Contemporary powerhouse Christie’s had a surprisingly weak evening auction of postwar and contemporary art during Frieze Week, registering just £23,020,650 ($36,833,040). That tally came in on the low end of pre-sale expectations of £21,030,000-29,890,...
LONDON—With the attention-grabbing backdrop of three art fairs and more evening auctions to come, Phillips de Pury’s lead-off evening sale delivered a tepid £12,223,600 ($19,435,524). The tally fell shy of the £14,960,000-22,080,000 ($23,786,400-35,107,200)...
