Auction
Auction houses have long measured their seasons by paintings and sculptures, but the numbers favored a relatively overlooked category this spring season.
On May 14, 2025, Miss January, an oil on canvas by the South African artist Marlene Dumas, sold at Christie’s New York for $13.6 million, the highest price ever achieved at auction by a…
New York’s marquee spring auctions have wrapped with a combined $2.5 billion in sales across Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips.
A monumental 1983 Jean-Michel Basquiat canvas, Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown), heads to Sotheby's Contemporary Evening Auction this May with an estimate of $45 million.
The Joachim-Ma violin, crafted in 1714 by the great luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy, sold at Sotheby’s New York on February 7 for $11.3 million (est. $12-18 million). While it had been…
While Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elizabeth Lederer was sold for a record-breaking $236.4 million after a 20 minute bidding war, a solid gold toilet, titled America…
Amid reports of the auction market’s steady decline, Sotheby’s has clinched a collection from the estate of Leonard Lauder valued at more than $400 million.
Just last year, a seemingly ordinary oil painting, attributed to a “follower of Julius Caesar Ibbetson,” an 18th-century British painter, sold for £400 ($506) at Dreweatts auction house in London.…
A cast of Camille Claudel’s masterpiece, The Age of Maturity (1894), has recently been found in a vacant Paris apartment and is suspected to fetch between $1.5 to $2 million at…
A pair of Dorothy Gale’s famous ruby slippers, worn while filming The Wizard of Oz, went to auction late last week and made a staggering record for the…
As November auctions kick off in New York with Sotheby's Modern Art Evening— led by one of Monet’s Nymphéas (circa 1914–17) and Picasso’s La Statuaire (1925…
Christie's announced late last week that they would be acquiring the classic automobile auction house, Gooding & Company, after 17 years of not specializing in the sale of luxury vehicles.…
Precursor of modernism and founder of the impressionist school, Claude Monet rendered approximately 250 oil paintings of his water lilies from 1896 to 1920.
Westwood World: The Personal Collection kicked off at Christie’s London yesterday evening and brought in roughly half a million pounds during the auction’s opening segment.
Tiziano Vecello, otherwise known as Titian, is estimated to set a new record for his twice-stolen painting at Christie’s Old Masters sale held in London on July 2nd.
