Tenner Lowry goes for £800,000 at auction
Lowry’s style has made his work instantly recognisable, but when he sold this painting, he was an unknown and was worried the £10 he charged was ripping off the buyer.
2025-05-07
£10 “too much” for Lowry painting now worth £1 million
Lowry’s work today is really well known, but he was an unknown when he sold this picture for £10 and threw in another work for free. Now just one will sell for £1 million.
2025-04-29
$1,500 eBay drawing is $150,000 Magritte masterwork
A Magritte on eBay? Sounds surreal, but a drawing sold for just over $1,500 might be worth 100 times that at auction next month.
2025-04-23
A “new” Constable painting makes £320,000 at auction
A recently discovered new work by John Constable, Britain’s most celebrated landscape painter, has sold for £320,000 at auction. The oil sketch had been in private ownership and was unknown […]
2025-03-19
£4.2 million for Blink-182 Banksy Vettriano remix
A poignant sale saw a remixed artwork sell for over £4 million in London this week. Owned by a rock-star it’s the perfect Banksy.
2025-03-05
Rock star to auction his Banksy for £5 million
Blink 182 bassist and singer Mark Hoppus will sell a Banksy via Sotheby’s next month, with the artwork expected to realise as much as £5 million. The painting is Crude […]
2025-02-19
Silver playing cards and baroque marble statues headline at Christie’s
Nearly a metre tall and beautifully carved in white marble, these scuptures are among the high points of Baroque art.
2025-02-12
Outsider artist Ramirez’s drawing has $200,000 price tag
The works can look simple and even childlike, but the best outsider art can demand big prices as this January sale proves.
2025-01-08
Banana artwork auctions for $6.2 million
A piece of art made of a banana taped to a wall has been sold for $6.2 million to a man who says he will eat the main feature of […]
2024-11-21
Great Wave prints break just short of $900,000
Two copies of the same image sold just a day apart. How different were the prices?
2024-09-18
Great Wave prints with $500,000-plus estimates show appeal of much-copied image
It might be the best-known image in all of art history, it’s certainly always in demand and two copies of the legendary The Great Wave print will test the market this September in NY City.
2024-08-29
Bob Dylan painting goes for double estimate
A Bob Dylan painting has doubled its estimate at auction.
2024-05-29
The $200,000 car door courtesy of Banksy
A car door could sell for $200,000 if it hits its estimate. The reason? A graffiti work by Banksy, the world-renowned street artist, who must have a good claim to […]
