Sotheby’s: Contemporary Art Evening Sale
LOCATION: New York | AUCTION: Contemporary Art Evening Sale | DATE: November 13, 2012 What a difference an auctioneer makes! Last evening’s Post War sale at Sotheby’s carried a strong and confident...
View ArticleChristie’s South Asian Modern + Contemporary Highlights.
Pillars of Indian Modernism on view at Christie’s, New York. In our follow-up interview with Deepanjana Klein, Ph.D, Head of Sales at Christie’s New York we discussed how the upcoming sale was curated...
View ArticleBarnett Newman’s Onement VI sets records at Sotheby’s
New York auction season sets yet another record. Sotheby’s New York seems to be doing things just right these past several seasons as the auction house secured several significant artworks by the...
View ArticleThe night of the unsold Boteros at Christie’s Latin American Sale
Mixed outcome at last night’s Christie’s Latin American Sale in New York. Last night’s standing-room-only sale at Christie’s delivered modest results with the top lots failing to reach the sellers’...
View ArticleSuccessu Ex Machina. Making sense of auction estimates
by Michael McCullough A dozen years ago anyone who foretold the size and importance of today’s global auction market would have been looked on as a lunatic. And yet the truth is that the present market...
View Article7 masterpieces you should have been bidding on
Forget the 8-digit high estimates that never were. Here is a short list of remarkable artworks from the Krugier sale you should have been bidding on. Some of the items on our list may still be...
View ArticleTop Art Stories: Focus on New York
The top news of last week were (surprise, surprise!) still the blockbuster sales at Christie’s and the sale of Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud to the sister of the Qatari Sheikh. Yes, the...
View ArticleInternational Art Industry Forum: Part 1
Part I of the International Art Industry Forum panel discussion held during Art Basel Miami Beach 2013. This first part of the discussion focuses on the history of the online art markets, their...
View ArticleInternational Art Industry Forum: Part 2
Part II of the International Art Industry Forum panel discussion in Miami this December focuses on the ways the three different auction models represented here secure consignments, deal with the issues...
View Article7 masterpieces to buy at the January 2014 Old Masters auctions
The Old Masters remain an important focus segment of the American, European and Asian art collectors. Each year the number of exceptional available works keeps diminishing, as most of the examples...
View ArticleA window into Basquiat’s imagination. Alexis Adler’s collection at Christie’s
When an artist gives you something, anything – KEEP IT! I have a rule. At least once a year I have to make an explicit effort to actively learn about something I have very little understanding of,...
View ArticleSugimoto leads at PHILLIPS Photography Day Sale
At more than $600,000 Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Music Lesson top lot of the day at Phillips. The second floor sales room at Phillips Auction house in Midtown Manhattan was sprinkled with many familiar faces...
View ArticleTop Art Stories: discoveries, returns and (maybe) a new law for the art world
Top Art Stories for April 8th, 2014. Art world can never be boring! Christie’s is announcing today that it’s offering another triptych by Francis Bacon and Larry Gagosian is bringing back Richard...
View ArticleTop Art Stories: Authenticity Edition
Where there is art there are authenticity questions. This week’s Top Art Stories focuses on the most recent authenticity issues as well as some other news for clever art collectors. Stealing Banksy?...
View ArticleTop 10 auction recommendations and not a single Picasso!
Spring 2014. Impressionism and Modern Art Evening Sales If we were facing the task of pointing out the superstar of the upcoming Impressionist and Modern sales in New York that would undoubtedly be...
View ArticleTop 10 Contemporary art auction picks (in case you are not a fan of Popeye)
Spring 2014 Post War & Contemporary Art Evening Sales. Spring Contemporary Art Auction week brings a decent selection of noteworthy lots and a large number of auction guarantees, which are...
View ArticleRecord Post War & Contemporary sale at Christie’s
Christie’s $775 million night including a new record price for Barnett Newman Out of the 72 offered lots 68 lots sold for a grand total of $744,944,000. The sale represents a huge success for the...
View ArticleTop Art Stories: Records and Guarantees
Top Art Stories, May 15th 2014. This week’s Post War and Contemporary Art auctions in New York brought more than $1 billion. Read on to find out what are some of the factors contributing to this...
View ArticleTop Art Stories: Discoveries Edition
Top Art Stories, June 16. The art world never ceases to amaze with new discoveries, whether it is a hidden element in a painting, a long forgotten talent, a newly authenticated masterpiece or an online...
View ArticlePicasso’s $179 million ‘Women of Algiers’ sets auction record at Christie’s
New collectors bidding on top ten lots at Christie’s. Sale tops $705 million. “Each of the top ten featured bidding by a collector who’d only started collecting in the last “five or six years.” — Jussi...
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