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"La Patience" (1948), which was one of two Balthus paintings in the museum’s collection, will go up for auction at Sotheby’s New York in November
The Biblical scene was recently offered at auction for just €10,000
In sales spanning this year and next, hundreds of works that once belonged to the SFMoMA trustee will be offered, including a box in a suitcase by Duchamp
The auctions will include a 1932 Picasso painting with a $120m estimate
Major auction houses have posted steep falls in turnover for the year so far—but some categories, such as luxury goods, are booming
Objects ranging from Japanese art to a plush red crown and cape drove bidders into a frenzy on New Bond Street
Bonhams is offering a Robert Colescott work in a single-lot sale, while Sotheby’s online fashion series includes Princess Diana’s famous black-sheep sweater
The British patron’s annual meetings on the Greek Island were a “who’s who of the contemporary art world”
Spoiler alert: lots of mounting takes place at Mount's
Paintings by Modigliani and Kusama among the 50 works to be offered in Hong Kong—with more potentially coming to the block in New York
The masses are being drawn in by the chance to see objects both fine and personal
An auction house spokesperson says Companies House figures do not represent full scope of business
Sotheby's, which is the new owner of the Madison Avenue building, “will proudly act as stewards” of Charles Simonds’s tiny installation
The auction house’s 2021 sale helped lend legitimacy to the line of cartoon apes, the plaintiffs claim, and was “misleading promotion”
The Canadian superstar revealed himself as the Crown Ring's new owner in an Instagram story
Klingender’s body was found in the sea after an apparent boating accident
As a show at the Monnaie de Paris explores how money and creativity have been intertwined since the early 19th century, Sotheby’s is set to move into the Whitney’s former home
The £39.4m auction was led by a 15th-century painting by the Master of the Baroncelli Portraits at £7.9m, while a new record was set for a work by William Hogarth—albeit sold to a single bid
The night's star lot made up nearly half of the £190.3m total for Sotheby's Modern and contemporary evening auction
The artist's spin painting of musician Pete Townshend will be sold for charity at Sotheby's
Lady with a Fan (1917) was last sold for $11.6m in 1994 and will be offered at Sotheby's in London on 27 June
Plus imposing heads by Giacometti
The auction house expects to move into the Madison Avenue building in 2025, vacating its current York Avenue headquarters
Specialists at Christie’s and Sotheby’s dismissed concerns about a decline in the Old Masters market
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
The price for the Codex Sassoon surpassed the sum Bill Gates paid for a Leonardo da Vinci codex in 1994
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
Demand for ultra contemporary works may have eased but there is little sign of a sales slump, say the New York firms
"Transformational" signed 1660 copy of The Declaration of Breda leads mixed-category sale featuring manuscripts, royal portraits, medals and memorabilia
Looted by the Nazis, after the war it was returned to the Rothschild family