Art Market
George Washington Portrait By Gilbert Stuart To Be Auctioned
A portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart, the artist who created the image used on the US dollar bill, is up for grabs.
The Top Ten Most Expensive Artworks Sold at Auction In 2025
Here’s how 2025 looked from the rostrum, after the dust had settled and the adrenaline finally wore off. Have a look at the ten most expensive works...
Lalanne Hippo Bar: $31.4m Decorative Arts Record Breaker At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s has once again proved that the market’s appetite for Lalanne’s menagerie is nowhere near sated. On Wednesday in New York, a rare copper...
Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 Full Market Report
Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 wrapped up its edition with a confident bravado not seen for many years. When the machinery runs smoothly and the buyers...
Rubens Painting Lost For Four Centuries Sells For €2.94 Million
A long-lost painting by Peter Paul Rubens, hidden for 4 centuries, was sold for €2.94 million this week in Versailles. The hammer came down at...
Michelangelo: Newly Discovered Sistine Chapel Study Set For Auction At Christie’s
The academic world is occasionally disrupted by someone, somewhere, uploading a photograph to an auction house portal. This time—almost absurdly—a...
Frida Kahlo Dazzles NY Auction Week With $54.6m World Record
Sotheby's wrapped its marathon week of New York autumn sales on Thursday night with the kind of back-to-back performance the house likes to wheel...
Sotheby’s Breuer Debut: $236.3m Klimt Record With Sale Totalling $706m
Sotheby's eased into its new headquarters with its first evening sales at the former Whitney Museum, designed by Marcel Breuer. The hulking granite...
Sotheby’s Transforms Marcel Breuer Brutalist Masterpiece Into NY Headquarters
New York: There’s something almost poetic about seeing the Breuer alive again — that hulking, cantilevered block of brutalist calm at 945 Madison...
Maurizio Cattelan: America Born Again Expected To Sell For £10m+
When Maurizio Cattelan unveiled America in 2016—a fully functioning toilet cast from more than 100 kilograms of 18-karat gold—it was never meant to...
The Long Sixties: Major Collection of Counterculture Ephemera To Be Sold
London – The 1960s wasn't just a run-of-the-mill decade. It was a seismic shift in thought, music, protest, and possibilities. From the late 1950s...
Art Basel Paris 2025 Final Sales Report – Artlyst
Art Basel Paris has settled into its second year at the Grand Palais with the confidence of a show that knows where it stands. What began as a...