Auction Report
Works by Canadian abstractionist Jean-Paul Riopelle rack up $8m at Heffel’s evening sale in Toronto
The two-part auction, coinciding with the centenary of Riopelle's birth, took in $17.2m in total
Brisk Sotheby's Modern evening sale in New York delivers moderate results
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
Christie’s 20th century evening sale in New York defies fears of a jittery market
Swan song of veteran auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen made $640.8m—the house's highest total for a non-single-owner sale in six years
Sotheby's sale of Emily Fisher Landau's collection brings modest result, despite $139m Picasso portrait
The evening's total take of $406.4m was a sign of a stability—albeit one under-girded by guarantees and third-party backing—in a jittery market
Jitters, few jolts at Phillips's 20th century & contemporary evening sale in London
Results offered at least modest reassurance at the house’s premier Frieze Week auction
Christie’s brings in a solid £96.5m across back-to-back Frieze Week evening auctions in London
The evening kicked off with a sale of 20th- and 21st-century art, followed by works from the collection of the late businessman Sam Josefowitz
‘The market has changed’: Sotheby’s scrapes together £45.6m from Frieze Week double-header in London
The auction house’s The Now sale of ultra-contemporary art was a success, but its marquee contemporary art sale came up well short of expectations
Long-lost canvas by Flemish painter Michael Sweerts propels Christie's Old Master sale in London to its best result in seven years
The auction house made £53.9m (with fees) from 38 lots, and saw a new record established for Fra Angelico
Christie's Modern and contemporary evening sale in London plummets 66% from last year's equivalent auction
Few big-ticket consignments and New York's turbo-charged May sales marred tonight's performance
Paintings by Alex Colville and Emily Carr top the bill at Heffel’s big spring auctions in Toronto
The Canadian auction house also saw strong results from works by members of the Group of Seven and a soaring Warhol print
Works by Klimt and Magritte lead Sotheby’s stolid Modern art sales in New York
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
Christie’s kicks off New York’s spring auctions with record-breaking Rousseau
The auction house’s bottom line benefitted from the strong performance of works from the collections of S.I. Newhouse and Paul G. Allen
Christie's 20th and 21st century evening sales in London represent a 32% decrease from 2022
Two-part sale spanning Impressionism to the ultra-contemporary had few headline lots—but Brexit is not to blame, auction house specialists maintain
Auction of longtime Vogue editor André Leon Talley’s collection exceeds expectations at Christie's
The white-glove sale brought in nearly $1.4m (with fees) across 64 lots, including rare portraits and works by Andy Warhol
Princess Diana gown, Lebron James jersey and ornate Bronze Age disc lead Sotheby’s latest cross-category auction experiment
The auction house’s first “The One” sale in New York included a mix of ancient artefacts and modern memorabilia organised into thematic sections
Restituted, record-setting Bronzino and gruesome Rubens lead Sotheby’s Old Masters sales in New York
The auction house’s four-part auction extravaganza was a decidedly mixed bag, bringing a total of $74.5m across 124 lots
Record-breaking Goya portraits lead the way at Christie’s muted $62.7m Old Masters auctions in New York
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
Modigliani and Basquiat push Christie’s New York double-header sales of 20th and 21st century art to $421.9m
The epic evening saw strong results from a wide-ranging, two-part offering that spanned the 1880s to this year
Records for rising stars and women artists power an otherwise subdued Sotheby’s New York contemporary art evening sale
The firm’s contemporary and “The Now” evening auctions totalled a combined $314.9m and notched new best prices for Barbara Kruger, Betye Saar and Elizabeth Peyton
Phillips’s $138.7m contemporary art sale in New York reflects ‘a general cautiousness in the market’
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
Record-breaking Mondrian leads an evening of mixed results at Sotheby’s marquee Modern art sales in New York
The auction house held a competitive, white-glove single-owner sale and a lacklustre modern art sale on Monday night
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's collection brings record-smashing $1.5bn at Christie's evening sale in New York
A $149.2m Seurat studio scene and $137.7m Cézanne landscape led the 60-lot, white glove sale
After San Francisco museum acquires Canaletto painting in pre-auction deal, Christie’s marquee Getty sale brings in $79.4m
A Japanese museum made a major purchase during an evening auction that also saw strong results for a diminutive dog portrait and enormous bird statues
Christie’s Frieze Week evening sale delivers, as London’s market continues to perform
Led by a £20.8m Hockney and £11.2m Richter, the white-glove sale saw competitive bidding across categories and records smashed for younger artists’ works
After a busy auction season, Phillips delivers good, but not ground-breaking, results at its 20th century and contemporary art sale in London
The auction house made £17.5m with a record achieved for British painter Antonia Showering
Phillips racks up a record $225m in New York—with Basquiat alone bringing in $85m
Women accounted for nearly half of the lots, led by Yayoi Kusama and her early Infinity Net paining which sold for a record $10.5m
Sotheby’s Modern art evening sale in New York brings in over $408m, the third-highest total for a sale at the auction house
Despite a hefty number of lots, the sale flew by and was peppered with memorable moments, auction records and Oliver Barker’s tireless showmanship
Christie’s evening sales total $831.3m, with Texan poker player’s surprise bidding spree upstaging blue-chip successes
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
Magritte more than doubles auction record at an otherwise tame Sotheby's Modern and contemporary evening sale in London
Back-to-back auctions, with works from Degas to Banksy, brought in a total of £221m
Franz Marc's £42.6m Foxes leads Christie's marathon Shanghai-London auction of Modern and contemporary art
The sprawling 20th and 21st century sale took over five hours and spanned Boudin to Banksy