Lost Rodin Marble Sells for $1.2 Million In A French Auction
A rediscovered Auguste Rodin marble sculpture, kept in plain sight for decades atop a piano in a French family home, has fetched €1.1 million ($1.2 million)…
10 June 2025
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Chain of Hope Auctions A-List Artworks At The Saatchi Gallery
LONDON — Chain of Hope has unveiled a star-studded art exhibition and auction to support global children’s cardiac care.
4 February 2025
Warhol Painting Of OJ Simpson Goes Under The Hammer At Phillips
A silkscreen portrait on canvas of the controversial football player OJ Simpson by the Pop Artist Andy Warhol is to be auctioned by Phillips in New York.
1 May 2023
ART IN MIND: Artists Raising Money For Mental Health Services – Clare Henry
Organiser June Carey’s initial idea was to ask 12 or 15 friends to paint vases for sale to raise money for mental health
24 May 2021
Fifty International Artists Auction Exclusive Work For Torture Survivors
A star-studded charity art auction featuring exclusive works by Quentin Blake, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Michael Craig-Martin, Howard Hodgkin, Patrick Hughes, Julian Opie, Cornelia Parker, Bridget Riley, and others is to take place from 7 November until 21st November
5 November 2019
Controversial Caravaggio Goes Under The Hammer In Toulouse
A long lost painting attributed by a French provincial auction house to Caravaggio, which languished in a chateau attic in… Read More
20 June 2019
Marc Quinn Honoured At MTV RE: Define HIV Charity Auction
The eighth Annual MTV RE: DEFINE 2019 Art Auction & Gala is honouring the YBA Artist Marc Quinn who has donated two Artworks produced exclusively for the event.
28 March 2019
George Michael Art Collection Auction Raises £9.4m For Philanthropic Work
The highly anticipated auction of British singer and songwriter George Michael’s art collection which captured the spirit of the 1980s and 1990s, has realised £9,264,000 / $12,302,590 / €10,848,145. Proceeds from the sale will be used to continue George Michael’s philanthropic work.
14 March 2019
New Record For Lucian Freud Painting At Sotheby’s London
A painting by the British Artist Lucian Freud from his ‘last great nudes’ series, Portrait on a White Cover has sold at Sotheby’s London for £a record 22.5million / $29.8 million.
27 June 2018
Desperate Artwives Online Auction
Link to auction : https://www.jumblebee.co.uk/desperateartwivesonlineauction2017
Help Refugees: Auction Unites A-List Artists To Help Raise Funds
The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is one of 27 artists who have given their support to a high profile charity auction in aid of award-winning NGO, Help Refugees.
5 December 2017
Art On A Postcard Auction 2017
After the success of last year’s auction, which raised over £75,000, The Hepatitis C Trust’s Art on a Postcard Secret Auction returns for its 4th year this November. Bid for original postcards by world-renowned artists.
PV 6-9pm on 14 November
Donald Trump Drawing Sells For £22,000 At Auction In LA
Is Donald Trump a better artist than George W Bush? This is a question on many peoples lips this morning! Now, an original drawing by the US President Donald Trump depicting the Manhattan skyline, with Trump Tower smack in the middle has gone under the hammer in Los Angeles achieving $29,184 (£22,000).
29 July 2017
Record £1.33m For Tintin Explorers On The Moon Drawing By Herge
A black and white Tintin drawing has broken all records by selling for €1.55m (£1.33m; $1.64m). The original pen and ink from the book Explorers on the Moon was created by the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Herge. It had been estimated to fetch between €700,000-900,000 before the sale.
21 November 2016
Landseer’s Monarch of the Glen Auctioned By Mean Spirited Drinks Brand Diageo
The Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer, one of Scotland’s best-loved paintings has been consigned to Christie’s Auctioneers, in a move that could see it go abroad.
4 November 2016
London Design Museum Auction Raises Over £1m For New Kensington Building
Phillips has successfully hosted a Design Auction to benefit the new Design Museum in Kensington London. The sale has raised over £1.1 million towards… Read More
10 May 2016
Marcel Duchamp National Treasure Goes Under The Hammer In Paris
The Impressionist and Modern art sale at Artcurial in Paris is offering the seminal oil painting on panel, Nu sur nu by Marcel Duchamp…. Read More
7 May 2016
A. Alfred Taubman’s $500m Art Collection To Be Sold At Sotheby’s
The disgraced Collector and former owner of Sotheby’s, A. Alfred Taubman’s art collection will be sold in a series of… Read More
5 September 2015
Banksy Street Art Removed From Bethlehem Up For Auction
Murals believed to have been created by the Bristol street artist Banksy on walls in Detroit, and in Bethlehem are… Read More
29 July 2015
Ai Weiwei’s Zodiac Heads Under The Hammer At Phillips
Phillips London’s Contemporary Art Evening sale on February 12 will host Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads (2010). The group… Read More
28 January 2015
Jack Vettriano Scotland’s Kitschiest Painter: £1.2m Collection Goes Under The Hammer
Paintings by the popular commercial artist Jack Vettriano are estimated to reach £1.2m when they are sold at auction, in… Read More
18 January 2015
Christie’s Unveils Stellar Selection For London’s The Art of The Surreal Auction
Christie’s stellar selection of 36 lots in the much anticipated annual London evening sale of The Art of The Surreal… Read More
11 January 2015
Lauren Bacall’s Art Collection For International Tour
The impressive art collection assembled by acclaimed actress of stage and screen, Lauren Bacall, who died in August 2014, is… Read More
6 January 2015
Winston Churchill Painting Sells For Record £1.7 Million
It would seem that there is a new fashion for the paintings of World War II political ‘hobbyists’. First we… Read More
18 December 2014
Georgia O’Keeffe $44.4m Painting Sets New Record Price For A Female Artist At Sotheby’s
The $15 million or £9.5 million estimate for Georgia O’Keeffe’s work was shattered after a rather intense bidding war between… Read More
22 November 2014
BBC Incompetence As Television Centre Memorabilia Goes For A Song
The BBC have been criticised for not properly promoting a series of auctions of memorabilia, from Television Centre, the last of which raised only £100,000
9 November 2014
Lost Masterpiece Discovered In French Attic At Christie’s Auction
Two works by the artist John Duncan Fergusson were recently rediscovered in France by a brother and sister while they… Read More
1 November 2014
Lauren Bacall’s Art Collection For Bonhams Auction
The 700-piece art collection of actress Lauren Bacall, who died earlier this year at the age of 89, will go… Read More
15 October 2014
Christie’s To Auction Collection Of Late Actor Maximilian Schell
The late Maximilian Schell was a renowned Austrian and Swiss film and stage actor, who also wrote, directed and produced… Read More
15 October 2014
Damien Hirst To Auction Cabinet Piece For Victim Education Programs
Deyrolle auction house in Paris is to partner with the Turner Prize winning artist Damien Hirst and online auction Paddle8… Read More
4 October 2014
David Hockney Faxed Art For Charity Auction
Great British artist David Hockney’s work ‘DH at the Beach’ – which was faxed by the artist from California to… Read More
19 September 2014
Sotheby’s To Auction Most Iconic Works By Georgia O’Keeffe
Sotheby’s in New York will offer one of the most iconic works by artist Georgia O’Keeffe ever to appear at… Read More
16 September 2014