Auction Report
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
'There are too many auctions and not enough collectors': Christie's and Sotheby's thin Old Master sales fetch a combined £29.3m in London
The star of the sales was a pair of half-length portraits by Van Dyck that sold for £6.2m at Sotheby's, the second-highest price for the artist at auction
Sotheby's triple-header New York auction night notches up $234.2m with artist records for Lisa Brice, Maria Berrio and seven others
The auction house also accepted cryptocurrency on two works by Banksy and sold a rare copy of the US Constitution for $41m
Frida Kahlo breaks record for a Latin American artist in Sotheby's $238m Modern art sale
While the auction's star lots included the $34.9m Kahlo and four Monets, the most aggressive bidding was on works by Alexander Calder and Pierre Soulages
Macklowe collection auction brings $676.1m, the highest sale total in Sotheby’s history
Bidders from Asia snapped up the sale’s two biggest lots, trophy works by Giacometti and Rothko
Caillebotte masterpiece goes to Getty and four auction records smashed at Christie’s New York sale of Edwin Cox’s Impressionist trove
Last night's single-owner sale of the late Texan oilman's vaunted collection brought in a massive $332m
Young female painters and bored apes turn heads at Christie's £64.6m auction
The first NFT to be sold at auction in Europe sells for £800,000, while collectors compete for emerging women artists, leaving more established names on the shelf
Bellotto's view of Verona sells for record £10.5m at Christie's Old Master sale in London
Seven new artist records were set in tonight's auction, including for Georges de La Tour, while a second highest prices were set for female painters Angelica Kauffman and Artemisia Gentileschi
Head of a bear sets new record for a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, selling on a single bid for £8.8m at Christie's
The tiny "Post It note" drawing was sold by Thomas Kaplan, owner of the Leiden collection of Rembrandts, who bought it in 2008 based on a fax
England may be through to the Euro finals, but Sotheby's Old Master paintings sale scores an own goal
The auction house's £17.2m offering in London tonight was only 57% sold, overshadowed by the football match
Lucian Freud's portrait of David Hockney fetches £14.9m in strong hybrid sales at Sotheby’s in London
Asian bidders and British art boosted figures to make auction house's highest summer total since 2018
Records set for Cinga Samson, Avery Singer, Vija Celmins, Titus Kaphar and Julie Curtiss at Phillips's $118.2m evening sale
Auction house chose to hold its 20th century and contemporary art evening sale in New York during what is traditionally the London season due to "detonated" calendar
Sotheby's American Art auction saw some prices soar, while Christie's remained grounded
A museum sells art to balance its budget, a gorgeous Sargent goes unwanted, and a painting of a giraffe reaches high.
Christie's rounds off New York's auction week with strong $481m 20th century sale—and half of it was pre-sold through guarantees
The sale was led by a classic 1932 Picasso of Marie-Thérèse at $103.4m and set new records for Alice Neel, Grace Hartigan, Barbara Hepworth and Alighiero Boetti
Hands up who's bidding for classic post-war art? Picky response to Anne Marion's all-American collection reflects market's shifting tastes
Sotheby's auction of the Texan rancher's collection totalled $157.2m and set new records for Kenneth Noland, Larry Rivers and Richard Diebenkorn
Spotty performance for unseen Yayoi Kusama paintings at Bonhams New York—but works on paper soar off the block
Pieces came from the collection of late New York heart surgeon who befriended the artist in the 1960s
A $93.1m Basquiat and reams of records for hot young names kicks off New York auction week at Christie's
The $210.4m sale included new highs for contemporary artists like Mickalene Thomas, Jordan Casteel and Lynette Yiadom Boakye, while some established names fell flat
In bidding confusion at Sotheby’s, unseen Van Gogh initially sells for €16.2m but is then resold for €13m at end of auction
Cross-category relay sale brought in $176.2m against high estimate of $120.5m and culminated with surprise Basquiat announcement
Banksy's Game Changer sells for record £16.7m in aid of charities supporting the NHS
The work appeared suddenly last May at the University Hospital Southampton as a thank you to its staff during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
Jean-Michel Basquiat's Warrior becomes most expensive western work of art sold in Asia at $41.7m
The 1982 work sold today at Christie's in Hong Kong to an Asian buyer
Gaitonde breaks Indian art auction record—again—but Amrita Sher-Gil painting falls flat in uneven South Asian sales
A number of Indian artists made their auction debut this season, though several established names missed the mark
Lockdown home decorators boost New York's Americana week auctions
Chippendale-style furniture, elephant tureens and a broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence were in demand at the sales series last week
Record for Barkley Hendricks and $18.2m Calder at otherwise unremarkable Sotheby’s sale
Almost half of the auction's total sales value was bought by Asian buyers, but 12 lots sold below their estimates
A tale of two cities: Christie's 20th-century relay sale sees six records set in Hong Kong before slower New York finish
In demand contemporary artists hit big in Asia but several Modern stalwarts failed to make a splash in multi-city hybrid auction
Ed Sheeran is selling his Lego set—and his art
The singer has donated his "Jackson Pollocky" painting to a GeeWizz charity auction alongside hand-written song lyrics and other memorabilia
The Royal Opera House's David Hockney painting sells for £12.8m at Christie's amid deaccessioning debate
The auction house's four-part £90.2m "20th Century: London to Paris" sale saw small bursts of energy for quality lots in the wake of Frieze and Fiac's cancellations
Revealed: sellers of £7.6m Banksy were London collectors who provided venue for artist's 2005 Crude Oils exhibition
As part of the deal, Roland and Jane Cowan acquired the faux Impressionist canvas from the artist—it sold last night at Sotheby's
Christies winds up belated summer auction season with £21.2m Classic Art sale led by £4m Rubens
16th century Italian marble attributed to Antonio Lombardo steals the show, but auction house's digital face is showing its age against stiff competition