Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), the last portrait Gustav Klimt created before his untimely death, has sold in London for £85.3 million ($108.4 million) at Sotheby’s
28 June 2023
The 2023 edition of Art Basel’s flagship fair in Basel concluded with highly praised presentations by 284 galleries from 36 countries
21 June 2023
A Banksy painting owned by the fashion designer Sir Paul Smith is to be auctioned at Bonhams. Congestion Charge (2004)
20 June 2023
Sotheby’s is auctioning a painting by Gustav Klimt that is one of the most sought after and valuable works of art ever to be offered in Europe.
15 June 2023
Art Basel, which takes place in Messeplatz in Basel, is known as the fair that unites the international art world.
14 June 2023
London Gallery Weekend is the world’s largest event of its kind and unique among global gallery weekend events in the breadth and diversity of its participating galleries.
1 June 2023
TEFAF New York opens Today for their exclusive private view. For those in the know, TEFAF is an art fair that features a range of fine and decorative art from antiquity to the present day.
11 May 2023
The art market has again bucked the trend remaining buoyant throughout the post-pandemic fiscal year.
4 April 2023
Frieze Los Angeles has returned for the Largest edition of the Fair Yet, With Strong Sales, International Attendance….
20 February 2023
The co-founders of the now defunct Masterpiece fair, cancelled last month by the MCH Group, owners of Art Basel, are reviving the fair in time for Summer
9 February 2023
It is rare for a major painting by Antoine Watteau to surface on the open market. Most are held in leading museums and public collections around the world.
18 January 2023
Sotheby’s is to offer ‘Dance On The Beach’ an important panel by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch It is estimated to fetch around £12-20m.
16 January 2023
Art Basel Group Cancels London’s Masterpiece Fair – Louvre To Limit Daily Visitors to 30,000 – Mary Cassatt Bio-Pic To Premiere On International Women’s Day
9 January 2023
Bored Ape Hypesters Sued For Millions – Tate Britain’s ‘Racist’ Mural Back On Show – National Portrait Gallery To Reopen 22 June
15 December 2022
Damien Hirst Creates 300 Mass-Produced Paintings at $40k A Pop – Stolen Kandinsky Polish Museum Authorities Threaten Legal Action – Viva Magenta Is Pantone Colour Of The Year 2023
5 December 2022
Art Basel’s 2022 edition in Miami Beach closed on Saturday, December 3, 2022, following a week of solid sales across all market sectors and throughout the show.
4 December 2022
The Paul G. Allen Collection, auctioned last night at Christie’s, has become the biggest sale in auction history
10 November 2022
Frances Morris To Step Down As Tate Modern Director – Art Basel Director Marc Spiegler Quits – Stuart Semple Launches Pantone Alternative Colour Chart
31 October 2022
Paris+ par Art Basel has concluded a highly successful debut edition marked by buoyant sales, vibrant city-wide programming, and strong… Read More
23 October 2022
Iconic Lowry Painting Sold For £7.8 Will Remain In Salford – Ai Weiwei and Peter Doig Donate Works To Benefit WWF
20 October 2022
Russian Art Activist Pyotr Pavlensky London Exhibition – Queen Elizabeth II Fourth Plinth Takeover – Sex Pistols Sotheby’s Auction
22 September 2022
The Groucho Club, an infamous Soho watering hole known for its literary and arty crowd, has been purchased by gallerists Hauser & Wirth
12 August 2022
Horniman Agrees To Return Benin Bronzes To Nigeria – Henry Darger Federal Lawsuit Revealed – Green Light For Gormley Sculpture Celebrating Codebreaker Alan Turing
8 August 2022
Documenta Director Sabine Schormann Resigns Over Antisemitism Row – Sotheby’s Sell $2.5m Tables Made From Asbestos – Complete Hilma af Klint Catalogue Raisonné To Be Published
18 July 2022
Paris+ par Art Basel, which has all but replaced the French art fair FIAC in the Grand Palais, has announced the lineup for the 2022 fair.
12 July 2022
The sale proceeds of Jeff Koons’ iconic Balloon Monkey (Magenta) (2006-13), which sold for £10,136,500 / $12,437,486 / €11,738,067 at Christie’s last night…
29 June 2022
A Man Ray photograph ‘Le Violon d’Ingres’ has set a new record price for a photograph, selling for $12.4 million
15 May 2022
Ten years after the Gurlitt Hoard (“Schwabing Art Trove”) hit the headlines worldwide, two important watercolours by Otto Dix will go under the hammer at Ketterer Kunst
13 May 2022
Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn made double history last night as the most expensive pCostly Costly painting ever sold by a US artist and the most costly 20th-century work of art to sell at auction
10 May 2022
Art Brussels sprouts back to life after two years missed for Covid, from 28 April – 1 May.
8 May 2022
The Italian Conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan is being sued in Paris over intellectual property infringement.
5 May 2022
A Landscape painting depicting an arch bridge thought to be the work of one of Rembrandt’s students, Govert Flinck, has… Read More
4 April 2022
