At this year’s winter auctions, the two big houses saw ‘a mixed bag and mixed results’
Romanian prime minister Marcel Ciolacu said a legal team is pursuing the recovery of the painting once owned by King Carol I of Romania
The interior designer Mica Ertegun's Surrealist L'empire des lumières sold for a record $121.1m in New York last night, with a new high also set for Ed Ruscha
Kicking off November's marquee evening sales, the house brought in a total of $268.6m from 49 lots
Michael Findlay reveals his art world beginnings as a lucky 18-year-old Scot in the Big Apple
The reassuring result was a marked increase from last year's equivalent auction—despite a cyberattack that has taken down the auction house's website
The results were led by Monet's 'Meules à Giverny' and Leonora Carrington's record-breaking 'Les Distractions de Dagobert'
Scattered seven-figure highlights failed to make up for dozens of passed lots and multiple key withdrawals
The auction, spanning Monet to Miró, made $190.3m—just above its low estimate—and was preceded by the record-breaking sale of a Ferrari car
Swan song of veteran auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen made $640.8m—the house's highest total for a non-single-owner sale in six years
A double-header night of The Now and contemporary art auctions set ten new artist records, boosting confidence after a lacklustre Christie's sale of the Gerald Fineberg collection
Despite the underwhelming result, the sale notched new auction records for Barkley Hendricks and Alma Thomas
The firm’s Modern art evening sale and single-owner Mo Ostin auction brought in a below-estimate hammer total of $363.9m, or $427m with fees
There is a growing trend for guarantors to spread their risk by selling off parts of their guarantees—violating auction house rules
News that a German museum has been hanging work “the wrong way” for 75 years has sparked debate about whether the artist would have even cared
The white-glove sale brought in nearly $1.4m (with fees) across 64 lots, including rare portraits and works by Andy Warhol
The auction house’s four-part auction extravaganza was a decidedly mixed bag, bringing a total of $74.5m across 124 lots
Despite works the collection of film producer Jacqui Eli Safra that were enticingly offered with no reserves, the auction house’s two marquee sales fell short of expectations
The epic evening saw strong results from a wide-ranging, two-part offering that spanned the 1880s to this year
The measured result, which slightly surpassed its low estimate and the total take from the same sale last year, was bolstered by a late Cy Twombly that fetched $41.6m
A $149.2m Seurat studio scene and $137.7m Cézanne landscape led the 60-lot, white glove sale
The indictment of Graham Bonham-Carter has rattled a number of art market figures
Offered next month for $500,000 to $700,000, the silkscreen canvas work is from the same series as another that was at the centre of $20m lawsuit against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
While both back-to-back sales did well, works by artists under 40 were snapped up at a rate not matched by their elders, making seven artist records
On a night when many works outpaced expectations in Christie's New York saleroom, Ernie Barnes’s “The Sugar Shack” sold for more than 76 times its high estimate
The collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann brought in $317.8m with fees, making it one of Christie's biggest single-owner sales ever
The firm, owned by the Mercury Group, posted the message on Instagram yesterday, to some criticism
The star lot of the sale, a rediscovered and austere portrait of Christ, hammered just below its estimate
The 20th century and contemporary art evening sale saw stiff competition for works by Shara Hughes, Joan Mitchell, Amy Sherald and Cecily Brown
Last night's single-owner sale of the late Texan oilman's vaunted collection brought in a massive $332m
