Magritte gets star billing at Christie’s $460m ‘solid as a rock’ evening auction
Christie’s double-header evening auction of a storied single-owner collection and other 20th century art vaulted to $410m ($460m with fees) ...
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Phillips’s contemporary art auction in New York, hampered by Basquiat flop, brings in slim $44.2m
Phillips’s evening sale of modern and contemporary art in New York on Tuesday evening (19 November) was a struggle with ...
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Sotheby’s New York delivers white glove auction of Sydell Miller collection but patchy Modern evening sale
Sotheby’s kicked off the November marquee auction season yesterday (18 November) with a double header. The evening began with the ...
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Auction houses expect this month’s New York sales to bring in as much as $1.6bn
New York auction houses anticipate bringing in between $1.2bn and $1.6bn during the marquee autumn sales next week, falling short ...
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Popping the hood: what’s driving sales of luxury cars at auction houses
In my past 20 years in the art market, I’ve had to brush up on several unexpected collectible categories—think handbags, ...
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Maurizio Cattelan’s famous duct-taped banana could bring more than $1m at auction
Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana caused an uproar at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019 and quickly went viral as a ...
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Sonia Boyce, Jeremy Deller and more donate works to a charity auction for Gaza
More than 200 artists—including Sonia Boyce, Anya Gallaccio and Jeremy Deller—have donated works to a charity auction and exhibition in ...
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Disgraced adviser Lisa Schiff’s art holdings planned for auction at Phillips starting in November
More than 200 works of art from the inventory of the legally beleaguered art adviser Lisa Schiff are to be ...
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Paris auction house Artcurial reports best year of sales—despite a downturn in trade of 20th- and 21st-century art
The Paris-headquartered auction house Artcurial has reported sales for 2022 of €216.5m across all categories—the house's highest total since it ...
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Black American women artists represent just 0.1% of auction sales, report shows
A new report reveals that since 2008, the value of works by women and Black American artists—and especially by Black ...
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