A major portrait by Francis Bacon will be offered at Christie's in their upcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 13 February 2014. The painting depicts George Dyer and was executed in 1966, at the artist’s creative peak. George Dyer was Bacon's...
Christie’s Private Sales along with British luxury leather goods brand Mulberry in San Francisco have hosted a pop-up Exhibition of Andy Warhol's work. Christie’s which recently signed a multi-year, multi-platform partnership with The Andy Warhol...
It has been a record breaking week for two icons of American realism. A Depression era view of New Jersey by Edward Hopper has sold for $40m (£24.4m), setting an auction record for the US artist, at Christie's sale of American art. While Rockwell's "Saying...
Oh what a crazy week for contemporary and modern art at auction: Despite a lot of hot air in the art press over the last few days, with speculation of whether the art market bubble (or balloon in some cases) was about to burst, the climate has again proven the...
Multiple auction houses were interested in the vast collection of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione’s erotic treasures, recently acquired by entrepreneur Jeremy Frommer via the late media mogul’s storage lockers and creditors. After Vice Magazine devoted...
An Impressionist and Modern art sale at Sotheby's in New York has raised more than $290m (£180m) This is the second highest result for the auction house, following the sale last year (2012) of Munch's 'The Scream' which set a world auction record for any work of...
Art Review has released its annual Power 100 list, an international roll call of the art world’s dominant financial movers and shakers. Taking the top place this year is Shiekha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, of Qatar.The 30 year old Shiekha is the...
An important auction of contemporary sculpture and installation work was offered from the Saatchi Gallery collection this week at Christies. It realised a total of £3,086,350 / $4,935,074 / €3,635,720. The sale offered 50 works with no reserves and no...
This week London plays host to Frieze Week – This is a once a year art feeding frenzy - a time when the international cultural core descends on the capital, to pay homage to the Gods of visual art. Frieze and Frieze Masters (launched last year) will give you a...