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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.
This fall, over one hundred works from the collection of art patron Emily Fisher Landau will come to auction at Sotheby’s where they are estimated to bring in over $400 million.
Sotheby's is set to present Bibliotheca Brookeriana, the sale of the book collection of T. Kimball Brooker, featuring over 1,300 sixteenth century French and Italian books, which is estimated to bring in over $25 million.