Christie’s first half year auction sales results top £2.2bn ($2.8bn, up 14%), a 29% increase from the same period in 2016. Continued global demand and creative sale planning have helped to drive a rise in Overall sales were £2.35bn ($3bn, up 1%), an increase of 14%...
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Audrey Hepburn Family Collection To Be Sold At Christie’s
Items from the family collection of the iconic actress Audrey Hepburn a to go under the hammer at Christie's in London. Portraits, personal letters and her own annotated film script from Breakfast at Tiffany's will be sold. Christie's said the sale would feature...
Constantin Brancusi Head Smashes Artist’s Auction Record At Christie’s
A bronze sculpture by the Modernist artist Constantin Brancusi has sold for the record-smashing price of $57.37 million in New York on Monday. This is the highest price achieved for the Romanian-born sculptor and more than twice the pre-sale estimate. La muse...
Important Picasso Muse Dora Maar Portrait To Be Sold At Christie’s
Femme assise, robe bleue by Pablo Picasso will go under the hammer at Christie’s NY as a highlight of its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale (Estimate: $35,000,000-50,000,000). “Femme assise, robe bleue is an extraordinary portrait of Picasso’s great Muse'...
Christie’s To Close South-Ken Salesroom Despite Art Evening Auction Achieving $117,781,248
Christie’s record-shattering Contemporary sale in London last night has not halted downsizing of their operations in London and Amsterdam. The French-owned London-based auction house is to close the salesroom in London’s South Kensington and plan to cut staff in...
Leslie Waddington Collection Achieves 100% Sell-Through Rate At Christie’s
The Collection of London art dealer Leslie Waddington which went under the hammer at Christie’s yesterday saw an electric start to the much-anticipated Frieze Week auctions. The single-owner auction: saw bidding for the highly sought after personal collection, achieve...
Brian Sewell Collection Reveals New Attributions During Cataloguing At Christie’s
Christie’s have made further discoveries and positive attributions while cataloguing the collection of the late Brian Sewell critic for the Evening Standard. An oil on paper study has now been linked to a group of pictures hanging in the Basilica di Santa...
London Art Market Strength At Auction Now Christie’s Defies Brexit
Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction received strong bidding in the room and on phones to achieve high sell through rates of 92% by lot and 98% by value with 50% of works selling over estimate and 30% within estimate. The top three...
Jean-Michel Basquiat Sets £40m World Auction Record At Christie’s
Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale in New York has realised a total US $318,388,000 / £220,796,117 /€279,086,291. The sell-through rates of 87% by lot and 91% by value is considered a staggering result. The sale established six...