The Paul G. Allen Collection, auctioned last night at Christie's, has become the biggest sale in auction history, achieving a total of $1,506,386,000. The result set a record for a single-owner sale, pushing into second place Sotheby's $676.1m Macklowe collection...
This November, artists from around the globe will donate their work to a fundraising art auction in aid of Arms Around The Child, a charity that provides children in Africa and India, who are directly or indirectly affected by HIV/AIDS, orphaned, abandoned or abused,...
Christie’s has launched the inaugural 20th/21st Century: Shanghai to London sale series with staggering results. This pioneering cultural dialogue between two major international art hubs, live-streamed from Christie’s in Shanghai and London with incorporated...
It's been a big year for the three major international auction houses with record sales and new developments in digital technology. The businesses are keeping up with the times, embracing cryptocurrencies and NFTs, an area awash with money laundering and smokescreen...
Christie's 20th Century Evening Sale continued the successful night of the Marquee Sales. Leading the way was Andy Warhol's 1982 portrait of his friend, the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat from the collection of Peter Brant, which achieved $40,091,500. The portrait...
Andy Warhol Portrait Of Basquiat Auctioned This November, Christie's New York presents Andy Warhol's portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat as a leading highlight of its 20th Century Evening Sale. Warhol elevates the young Basquiat to his pantheon of cultural icons,...
Man Arrested Over Theft Of Van Gogh and Hals Paintings The 58-year-old was taken into custody in Baarn in central Holland. He is suspected of stealing works by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from museums in the towns of Laren and Leerdam.The paintings have yet to be...
New London Gallery Weekend Announced For June 2021 Jeremy Epstein, co-founder of Edel Assanti gallery, has established a new city-wide Gallery Weekend for London. The event, which already has 90 contemporary art dealers onboard, will happen 4-6 June. The organisers...
Christie's £50m NFT Milestone Digital Art Collecting Comes Of Age Update: Metakovan, the founder of ‘crypto-exclusive fund’ Metapurse, has been identified as the buyer of Beeple’s $69.3m. NFTDigital art has an established history dating back to the 1960s. But the ease...