Christie's
Works by Basquiat, Haring and Hockney help Christie's 21st century evening sale net a healthy $106.5m
However, despite assistance from big names, it was emerging artists who were the real stars of the show
Magritte gets star billing at Christie's $410m 'solid as a rock' evening auction
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
Auction houses expect this month's New York sales to bring in as much as $1.6bn
The most valuable lot of the week is a record-breaking Magritte with a third-party guarantee, but the most talked-about is a conceptual still life by Maurizio Cattelan
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Large Ed Ruscha gas station painting could bring more than $50m at Christie's after star turns at Lacma and MoMA
The 1964 painting was a prominent feature in the artist’s recent travelling retrospective
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The auction house runs two auctions that place web3 increasingly at the heart of the traditional art market
Lucian Freud's Ria leads Christie's Frieze week evening sale at £11.8m
Despite some tense moments and a difficult market, the event proved solid, 'affirming' the auction house's decision to scrap June sales
Amid 'more selective, more cautious' market, Christie's Hong Kong sale notches $134m
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
'A statement in difficult times': Christie's opens new Hong Kong headquarters
The auction house will hold its first live evening sale in the new Zaha Hadid Architects-designed Henderson Building today
Late Freud nude to make auction debut in London with £10m-£15m estimate
Ria, Naked Portrait (2006-07) depicts an art handler who approached the artist, then in his 80s, to pose for the painting
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Magritte painting could bring more than $95m at Christie's marquee New York sales this autumn
If it goes for the auction house's estimate, "L'empire des lumières" (1954), from the collection of late interior designer Mica Ertegun, would set an auction record for the Surrealist artist
Christie's will become first global auction house to operate in Saudi Arabia
With the announcement of Riyadh-based managing director Nour Kelani, the firm hopes to deepen ties with the Kingdom's collectors and ambitious cultural projects
Christie’s to acquire classic car auction house
Gooding & Company was founded in 2003 by a former Christie’s director
Nazi-era claims for two Van Goghs in Switzerland?
Acquired by the arms dealer Emil Bührle, both have been on loan to a Zurich museum
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Bucolic Van Gogh riverscape with royal connections set to become the artist’s most expensive Paris work
“Moored Boats”, the “gem in the crown of the Bourbon collection”, will be auctioned in Hong Kong
Global turmoil and rising taxes tilt art trade towards new era
Increasingly unsettled elites are making a struggling market even less predictable
Cranach portrait will be sold in accord between Pennsylvania museum and Jewish heirs
The portrait of the Duke of Saxony, attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop, will be auctioned by Christie’s in New York in January 2025
Flower power: $25m Monet Water Lily to make auction debut in Hong Kong
The work will headline the inaugural sale at Christie's new Zaha Hadid-designed headquarters in the Henderson building
Another Schiele work returned to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum
The 1918 drawing had been in the possession of another Austrian Jewish family, which recently became suspicious of the work's provenance and contacted Grünbaum’s heirs directly in order to “do the right thing”
$1.2m Picasso drawing purchased with allegedly misappropriated funds recovered by US officials
The work on paper, purchased at Christie’s New York in 2014, was allegedly paid for with money embezzled from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign investment fund
Christie’s first half auction sales decline 22% year-on-year, to $2.1bn
But consistent strength in its sell-through rate and Asia Pacific buyer base show the auction house's ‘resilience’ amid obstacles
Muted Old Master evening sales in London provide relative bargains but no fireworks
Slim auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's saw a rediscovered Quentin Metsys and a modestly priced Botticelli come to the block
Renaissance masterpiece attributed to Quentin Metsys bought by the Getty for £10.6m
The painting previously sold at Christie’s for £254,500
'A little masterpiece': Titian's youthful canvas of 'The Rest on the Flight into Egypt', goes for auction at Christie's
The Venetian master's exquisite early depiction of the Holy Family, once recovered in a bag at a bus-stop seven years after being stolen from Longleat House, is estimated to fetch £15m-£25m in London sale
After the Christie’s cyberattack, who could be next?
A hack that caused huge disruption to the auction house is a wake-up call to galleries and art advisories of all sizes
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Christie’s reportedly planning layoffs
Rival Sotheby’s recently entered a consultation period ahead of redundancies