Christie’s Record-Breaker For Post War And Contemporary Art Sale
Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale in New York achieved the highest total for such a sale, in auction… Read More
16 May 2013
Art Market
Gerhard Richter: $37m Record Breaking Price For Work By Living Artist
A record price for a work by a living artist at auction was set last night by Germany’s Gerhard Richter…. Read More
15 May 2013
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Auction Realises $33 Million At Christie’s
One of the highest grossing charity auctions in history took place last night at Christie’s New York. The Leonardo DiCaprio… Read More
14 May 2013
Frieze New York: All Aside It’s About The Art Right?
If there is anything close to an international currency- it’s art- and ‘art’ is at Frieze in abundance. There were… Read More
14 May 2013
Pulse New York Opens With Record Sales To International Collectors
More than 1,200 art enthusiasts passed through the doors of PULSE New York 2013 before noon on opening day, yesterday, Thursday,… Read More
10 May 2013
CHAIM SOUTINE PAINTING SETS NEW WORLD RECORD FOR ARTIST
Bidders representing more than 30 countries have contributed to the success of the New York Evening Sale of Impressionist and… Read More
9 May 2013
Is This Painting By Barnett Newman Really Worth $30-40 Million?
A painting by the seminal American Abstract Expressionist painter Barnett Newman goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening… Read More
5 May 2013
Images of the London Underground Help Bonhams Realise £1.4m In Print Sale
Strong results by the Grosvenor school have helped Bonhams realise £1.4 million, in their spring prints sale, on the 16th… Read More
18 April 2013
Christie’s Auctioneers Granted First Operating Licence For Mainland China
Christie’s Auctioneers has announced that it will be holding sales in Shanghai beginning autumn 2013. These will be independently operated… Read More
10 April 2013
Gerhard Richter’s Monumental Domplatz Painting Auctioned At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s will auction a 20th century masterwork by Gerhard Richter on 14 May 2013 as one of the highlights of… Read More
2 April 2013
China’s Largest Auction House Launches Inaugural Spring Sale In Hong Kong
China Guardian Auctions , the oldest auction house in Mainland China, specialising in Chinese artwork of all varieties, will build… Read More
2 April 2013
Picasso Marie-Therese Portrait Sells For $155m To SAC Capital Boss
Steven Cohen the 56-year old founder of SAC Capital, has purchased the damaged painting “Le Reve” by Pablo Picasso for… Read More
27 March 2013
Green Lady By Tretchikoff Makes £1m At Bonham’s Auction
The Green Lady a painting considered a masterpiece of Kitsch by the Siberian/ South African artist Vladimir Tretchikoff
20 March 2013
TEFAF Releases Its Annual Art Market Report For 2013
The TEFAF Art Market Report 2013 which is considered to be one of the benchmarks for analysing the global art… Read More
14 March 2013
Indian Women Bring Art to the Masses – Collecting Women Making Waves
Kiša Lala Reports From Delhi on the rise of women collectors Arriving on New Year’s Eve in the aftermath of… Read More
12 March 2013
Christie’s Announces Back Door Premium Hike In All Bands
Christie’s quietly announced last week that it will be increasing its buyer’s premium by 5% on the first £75,000. This… Read More
24 February 2013
£43m Chinese Ceramic Vase Goes For Half Price After Dispute
Peter Bainbridge director of the Ruislip auctioneers of the same name, has confirmed that the payment dispute centring around the… Read More
17 February 2013
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sale Brings In £74m In Market Boost
Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Auction has achieved a total of £74,364,200/ $116,357,664/ €86,321,943, within pre-sale expectations (estimate: £61.2-84.5 million),… Read More
13 February 2013
Is China Still The Global Market Leader For Art Sales?
We reported a year ago that the global art market had recovered from the financial crisis with both confidence and… Read More
13 February 2013
Modigliani Masterpiece Realises £26.9m At Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Sale
Amedeo Modigliani’s portrait of his lover Jeanne Hebuterne was the top selling lot at Christie’s evening Impressionist and Modern sale… Read More
7 February 2013
Picasso Potboiler: Marie Therese Portrait Sells For £28m In London
A portrait by Picasso’s of Marie-Therese Walter, has been sold at Sotheby’s London for £28.6m. Painted in 1932 the work… Read More
6 February 2013
London Art Auctions Forecast Half Billion Sales In February
Over half a billion in Art goes under the hammer in London this month with the launch of Christies, Sothebys… Read More
3 February 2013
Christie’s London Impressionist And Modern Sale Expected To Top £100m
Christie’s London, Winter Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale titled, ‘FROM FIGURATION TO ABSTRACTION’, set to fall under the hammer at… Read More
13 January 2013
David Hockney’s Landmark Egyptian Painting Auctioned In London
Christie’s London are offering David Hockney’s ‘Great Pyramid at Giza with Broken Head from Thebes’ (1963) in their February Post-War… Read More
12 January 2013
Sotheby’s Reports Astounding $1.25 billion Results For Contemporary Art
Sotheby’s, the international auction house have reported their third most successful year ever for global auctions and a new record… Read More
10 January 2013
Tate Modern Record 5.3 Million Attendance Figure for 2012
Tate Modern one of London’s most popular cultural attractions has seen a record 5.3 million visitors in 2012. This is… Read More
8 January 2013
Art Sales Reach £40 Billion In 2012 Outperforming Equities Market
International Art sales realised more than $64bn (£40bn; 49bn euros) last year with analysts predicting that this area of the… Read More
2 January 2013
Kitsch Sells! Green Lady Artist Tretchikoff Achieves £337,000 At Auction
2012 was a year of surprises in the London auction rooms. It wasn’t only Munch, Picasso and Warhol that made… Read More
27 December 2012
Turner Contemporary £100,000 Cut As Council Introduces New 2013 Budget
Kent County Council has cut £200,000 for sports development, £200,000 for Kent Music and £100,000 to Turner Contemporary art gallery… Read More
22 December 2012
Casablanca Piano Sells For £370,000 At Sothebys New York
The piano played by the character Sam in one of the film Casablanca’s iconic scenes has sold for $600,000 (£370,000)… Read More
15 December 2012
Rare Mickey Mouse Poster Sells For £63k In Dallas Auction
A previously unknown 1928 Mickey Mouse cartoon poster topped Heritage Auction’s Nov. 29-30 ‘Vintage Movie Poster Signature Auction’ by fetching… Read More
3 December 2012
Auction Update: Modern And Contemporary Art Breaking The Billion
Last week, the auction houses threw open their New York bidding rooms and captured the attention of the art world… Read More
23 November 2012