There typically would be great anticipation leading up to Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales, as works by Basquiat, Keith Haring, Monet, Ed Rusche, Van Gogh,
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A portrait, originally thought to be lost, painted by Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt has just sold at Im Kinsky, a Vienna auction house.
A painting created by The Beatles in 1966, the only known artwork made by all four of The Beatles, sold at Christie's for $1.7 million.
Christie’s will auction an extensive collection of art, furniture, and collector’s items from Sir Elton John’s former home in Atlanta, Georgia in a an eight-auction sale titled "The Collection of Elton John: Goodbye Peachtree Road."
It’s a thrifter’s dream: buy a small painting for $4, find out it's incredibly rare, and come out on the other side of an auction with over $100,000. That is what happened to Tracy Donahue, a New Hampshire resident who became famous in 2017 for finding a work by American painter and illustrator N. C. Wyeth at a thrift store.
One of Napoleon Bonaparte's black bicorne hats sold at an auction in Fontainebleau, France for €1.9 million ($2.1 million), and is among just 20 others that are said to exist.
Paris’s Louvre Museum is looking for donations in its bid to acquire a still life of strawberries by French painter Jean Siméon Chardin, which was bought by the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas at an Artcurial auction in March 2022 for a record-breaking €24.4 million ($26.8 million).
See highlights from the Bonhams sale of the estate of journalist Barbara Walters.
Here are 9 highlights from the New York fall sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, which are among the most important secondary market art sales in America.
In a groundbreaking moment for the art world, Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu's large-scale work, Untitled, 2001, set a new record for an African-born artist when it sold for $9.32 million at Sotheby's Hong Kong.