Author Archives: Colin Gleadell

Christie’s and Sotheby’sLondon series ofImpressionist and modern artauctions brought in £256.7million ($405.6 million), up from the year-ago total of £248million ($399 million). Read More

When the National Portrait Gallery’s major show of Lucian Freud’s work opens next month (Feb. 9–May 27), it will include the fleshy life-size portrait—Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995—that Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich paid a record $33.6 million for at Christie’s in 2008 (ANL, 5/27/08). Read More

Art market activity in 2011 started with a bang, but finished the year on a more subdued note. Read More

Recent Old Master sales in London (Dec. 6–8) had their fair share of discoveries and fresh attributions, resulting in several better-than-expected and record prices. Read More

The largest concentration of works by Laurence Stephen Lowry was at Christie’s, which offered 14 Lowry paintings from the collection of Lord Charles Forte, the catering magnate who died in 2007. Read More

Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams all held sales of modern and 20th-century British and Irish art (Nov. 15–17). Read More

After opening proceedings for the fall contemporary art sales in New York with a small but prestigious sale to raise funds for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Nov. 7, Phillips de Pury & Company moved swiftly into the main part one sale. Read More

Christie’s mixed-owner part one sale on Nov. 8, totalled $220.8 million including buyers’ premium, against a pre-sale estimate of $215 million/298 million excluding the premium, so, technically, the sale fell below the estimate. Read More

Christie’s opened its part one sale on Nov. 8 with 26 lots from the collection of software magnate Peter Norton, and all of the works found buyers, for a total of $26.8 million against an estimate of $11.2 million/15.9 million. Read More

Much like the Frieze week auctions in London (ANL, 10/18/11), the last evening sale of the week saw the market reach a climax, only this time it was Sotheby’s, not Christie’s, that sent people home with the idea that the value of art is untouchable. Read More

Bonhams held a contemporary art sale in London—its first in several years—on Oct. 13. Headed by former Christie’s and Phillips de Pury & Company specialist Anthony McNerney, the new department boasts former Sotheby’s and Christie’s employees as well as some from Benjamin Brown’s gallery, for whom McNerney also briefly worked. Read More