“The Five Miracles of Christ” sold at Sotheby’s to a Christian foundation on Tuesday night, while an early Gerrit Dou led Christie’s evening auction at £3.8m
Dubbed the ‘Mona Lisa of the decorative arts’, the work is now the most expensive Fabergé egg ever sold at auction
The final evening auction of New York’s marquee autumn sales featured a bevvy of bidding on Surrealist works and a $62.7m Van Gogh
Led by a Christopher Wool painting that made $19.8m, the evening included 19 lots from the Chicago collectors Gale Neeson and Stefan Edlis
The house's total is up 42% from last year's equivalent sale, and it set new auction records for Leonor Fini and Beauford Delaney
Saffronart's latest auction in New Delhi is the largest ever held in South Asia, while Sotheby's in London made the highest price for Modernist F.N. Souza
Sotheby's and Phillips's Hong Kong sales were also down from their 2024 equivalents
The auction totalled £62.5m—down 25% year-on-year—but Sotheby's says it is committed to holding June sales in London despite a beleaguered post-Brexit market
Works by Group of Seven members Franklin Carmichael and Arthur Lismer, plus Emily Carr, topped the Canadian auction house’s two-part evening sale
The sale achieved a 62% sell through rate and made new auction records for Luis Meléndez and Frans Post
Last night’s low-risk, low energy auctions made $489m in total, including $272m for the collection of Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio, along with new records for Dorothea Tanning and Remedios Varo
Both auctions represent significant decreases from previous sales seasons, but strong sell-through rates and increased bidding from mainland China indicate signs of recovery
The £12.2m auction relied on tried and tested names, but estimates proved too high for buyers' appetites
Double-header sale in London last night was led by René Magritte with strong prices for Paul Delvaux and Tamara de Lempicka
Last night's sale at Sotheby's, which totalled £62.5m, also included a £4.3m Banksy sold by blink-182 frontman Mark Hoppus
Nine bidders competed for the 15th century painting of a Virgin and child at Sotheby's, while Zoffany, Tiepolo and Van Dyck topped auctions at Bonhams and Christie's
Despite Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian selling for a staggering $6.2m, The Now and contemporary auctions in New York made 63% less than last year
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
The small 23-lot contemporary art auction last night realised a total of £37.5m
Despite some tense moments and a difficult market, the event proved solid, 'affirming' the auction house's decision to scrap June sales
The firm's first major sale in its new Hong Kong headquarters saw spirited bidding for contemporary works and regional records for paintings by Van Gogh and Monet
Slim auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's saw a rediscovered Quentin Metsys and a modestly priced Botticelli come to the block
Bright spots in the heavily guaranteed auction included a £15m Basquiat and competition for the collection of Ralph I. Goldenberg
Works by Jean Paul Riopelle, Emily Carr, Tom Thomson and other titans of Canadian art history contributed to the evening’s total take of C$22.6m
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 20th/21st century and Art of the Surreal auctions were up 18.5% by value on their March 2023 versions
The 27-lot sale brought in £10.9m without fees after three works were pulled and another three failed to sell
The auction house made £82m before fees and set records for Etel Adnan and Takako Yamaguchi
The two-part auction, coinciding with the centenary of Riopelle's birth, took in $17.2m in total