Christie's NY has offered a 1967 Warhol screen print of Marilyn Monroe in purple, yellow, and orange tones on a shocking pink background, with a presale estimate of $40,000-60,000. It fetched $206.500 four times the estimate. A further print with a more historically...
Auction News The highest total for a Post-War and Contemporary Art sale was achieved yesterday when Christie’s New York led by an exceptional group of works from Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and Gerhard Richter pushed prices even higher into the art...
The gap left by the demise of the Zoo art fair is set to be filled by The Moniker International Art Fair, The East End Urban Art Fair “Sunday” and Auction House, Christie’s first Contemporary Art Fair "Multiplied” launched during the Frieze corridor in October. The...
Sotheby's has redrawn its fee structure, and other market leaders are expected to follow. The auction house has raised its buyer's premiums worldwide, adjusting one of the firm's most reliable revenue streams at a moment when the market is still unsettled, after...
Heavyweight paintings by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff drawn from the formidable Lewis Collection will headline Sotheby's Modern and Contemporary evening sale in London this March. It is the first time works from the collection have been formally...
An unknown sketch of a foot by Michelangelo has sold for $23m (£16.9) more than 10 times its original estimate at Christie's. The academic world was reeling when it found out a signed drawing by the Renaissance master had been uploaded to an auction house portal. A...
Bonhams closed 2025 with $970 million in global sales, a figure that signals some momentum. The total is shadowed by a widely shared Financial Times report detailing a £213 million pre-tax loss, alongside a change in ownership and fresh questions about how...
With auction houses achieving new records all the time, don't believe the moaning minnies, as the outlook for sales is more than on target for the year ahead. It would seem that the sky is indeed the limit where the global art market is concerned, with...
When Artlyst first started its Alt Power 100 Artlyst fifteen years ago, we were aiming at an audience fed up with the gratuitous love fest that other Power 100 lists produced. This list rewarded the commercial while ignoring the hard work of curators, museum...