Judd Tully
NEW YORK — Speaking of a hard act to follow… Phillips's evening sale commenced just 24 hours after Christie’s record-setting half-billion-dollar result. It proved mildly successful. The boutique-scaled auction house, headquartered on Park Avenue and 57th...
NEW YORK — In a generous burst of charitable giving, an elite band of artists, artist estates, collectors, and dealers have contributed 25 artworks to benefit the new Whitney Museum of American Art building downtown. In total, this trove is estimated to be...
NEW YORK — Rich in world-class offerings of Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art, Sotheby’s contemporary evening roared to the tune of $375,205,000, the highest total for any evening sale in its long history. It eclipsed the mark set in May 2008’s $362-...
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...
LONDON—For this year's Frieze Week, London's Regent's Park is home to not one but two fairs — Frieze London and the new Frieze Masters — an expanded offering that so far has been met with enthusiastic sales and positive reviews. ARTINFO's Judd Tully is in the...
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)...
LONDON—The brand new Frieze Masters opened to VIP guests today in Regents Park, looking either like a mini-TEFAF without the jewelry or a soft rock blend of Art Basel and the tented Pavilion of Art & Design (PAD) fair in...
NEW YORK—Christie’s announced today it will offer Andy Warhol’s iconic and rare-to-market early silkscreen painting, "Statue of Liberty" (1962), in a sale on November 14 with an unpublished estimate in excess of $35 million.Based on a nine-by-six-...
London's summer auctions have provided a lot of noise and thunder in the last two weeks, but meanwhile, there is also plenty to see in the ground at the city's many outstanding galleries. Here are our picks for a few of the best.To see this piece in...
LONDON — Phillips de Pury & Company closed out the endless summer art market season with a buoyant £23,376,400 ($36,233,420) sale compared to pre-sale expectations of £15.1-21.1 million ($23.4-$32.7 million). Estimates do not reflect fees, also known as...
