ARTnewsletter Archive

The 46th edition of the Art Cologne fair was a solid success, with exhibitors and visitors commenting on the spacious layout and high quality of the works on offer. Read More

Christie’s opened the spring season with a short but powerful evening sale of Impressionist and modern art on May 1 that realized $117 million for 31 lots offered. Read More

Sotheby’s made auction history at its evening sale on May 3, when a version of Edvard Munch’s iconic artwork, The Scream, 1895 became the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, realizing a total of $119.9 million, with premium, after being hammered down at $107 million. Read More

The upcoming show of 12 new works by Kehinde Wiley at the Sean Kelly Gallery in Manhattan (May 6–June 16) will overlap the well-received “Kehinde Wiley/The World Stage: Israel” show of 14 large-scale paintings by the artist, on view through July 29 at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. Read More

Prints and multiples sales in late April yielded healthy results at Swann, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury & Company. Read More

Ending a six-year-long saga, the Tennessee Supreme Court refused an appeal from the state’s attorney general, Robert Cooper, to overturn an appellate court ruling that would permit the Nashville-based Fisk University to sell a 50 percent stake in a 101-piece art collection, donated by artist Georgia O’Keeffe to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Ark. Read More

Ahead of the major spring Impressionist and modern art sales taking place in New York in the first week of May, 19th-century paintings drew strong prices at auctions in New York and London, including at sales of Orientalist art. Read More

In an auction on April 5, Sotheby’s Paris presented Sources et Affinités, auctioning works from the collection of Florence Loeb, the daughter of Pierre Loeb, the visionary Paris dealer and founder of the Galerie Pierre in Paris, which closed in 1963. Read More

The 21st edition of the Salon du Dessin, the prestigious, annual, antique drawing fair, was held March 28–April 2 at the Palais de la Bourse, the city’s former stock exchange. Read More

On April 9, Sotheby’s and artist Cady Noland were the target of new allegations in a suit brought by a consignor whose artwork was withdrawn from a contemporary art sale last fall. Read More

Christie’s part one sale of modern and contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish art, held on April 17 in Dubai, realized $4 million, clearing the high estimate of $3.9 million, for 40 lots offered. Read More

Two contemporary art sales at Drouot-Richelieu in Paris, with works from two high-profile collections, yielded strong results for artists including Yves Klein, Eduardo Chillida, Joan Miró and Mark Tobey. Read More