Phillips’ Contemporary Art auction sets house record
Phillips’ March 8 20th Century Contemporary Art auction in London saw total sales of £97.8m ($135.2m), a record for the auction house. Contributing almost half that sum was Picasso’s La […]
2018-03-12
Banksy’s Girl and Balloon destroys estimate at auction
A limited edition print of the artwork recently voted Britain’s favourite has smashed its estimate at auction. Banksy’s 2003 piece Girl and Balloon sold for £345,000 ($477,000) at Bonhams’ Post-War […]
2018-03-09
Christie’s breaks European contemporary art auction record
Christie’s has set a new record for a contemporary art auction in Europe. The auctioneer’s post-war and contemporary art sale in London on March 6 brought in £137m ($190m), with […]
2018-03-07
SS Normandie photograph collection offered in Paris
An enormous collection of photographs, documents and other ephemera relating to the great art deco era transatlantic liner the SS Normandie is heading to auction at Tessier Sarrou in Paris. […]
2018-03-06
Picasso Marie-Therese portrait set to make up to $35m
A tender Pablo Picasso portrait of his great muse Marie-Therese Walter is set to cross the block at Sotheby’s New York on May 14. The work is titled La Repos […]
Pablo Picasso’s Femme au beret makes $68.4m
Pablo Picasso’s Femme au beret et a la robe quadrillee made £49.8m ($68.4m) in a major auction of impressionist and modern art in London last night (February 28). The canvas […]
2018-03-01
Ben Enwonwu’s Tutu portrait sold for record $1.6m
Ben Enwonwu’s Tutu, often referred to as Africa’s Mona Lisa, has sold for a massive £1.2m ($1.6m) in Bonhams’ Africa Now sale. The work is one of three versions of […]
Seagram sculptor’s illustration collection heading for auction
A collection of sculptor’s illustrations from the Seagram collection will star in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Online sale on March 2. The sale focuses on influential contemporary sculptors, including Ellsworth Kelly […]
2018-02-27
Zhang Daqian sale to feature pieces from the Chew collection
Zhang Daqian, acclaimed as the greatest Chinese painter of the 20th century, is the focus of a sale at Sotheby’s New York during Asia Week on March 22. All of […]
Bob Greenberg to curate Cooper Hewitt exhibition
The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt design museum in New York City is to host an exhibition of pieces from its archives curated by legendary visual effects wizard Bob Greenberg. The show […]
2018-02-23
Peter Doig’s Charley’s Space valued at up to $11m
Charley’s Space (1991), an early work by Scottish-Canadian artist Peter Doig, will appear in Christie’s post war and contemporary art evening sale in London on March 6. It’s expected to […]
2018-02-22
Andy Warhol’s Six Self Portraits will star at Christie’s
Andy Warhol’s Six Self Portraits (1986) will lead Christie’s post-war and contemporary art sale in London on March 6. The set consists of six silk-screen renderings of Warhol’s iconic “fright […]
2018-02-21
Tate Britain’s Van Gogh exhibition slated for spring 2019
Tate Britain is to host its first exhibition of Vincent van Gogh’s work in London since 1947. Titled Van Gogh and Britain, the show will examine the artist’s relationship with […]
2018-02-19
Robert B Talfor’s Red River Raft makes shock sum at photo sale
Photographic Views of Red River Raft, a celebrated collection of images by photographer Robert B Talfor, was the surprise hit of Swann Auction Galleries’ February 15 photographs sale in New […]
2018-02-16
Sotheby’s Erotic Art sale a huge success
Sotheby’s Erotic Art sale featured a wealth of titillating treasures from throughout history, ranging from mild to pulse pounding. Among the headliners of the February 15 sale was Francis Picabia’s […]
