Not 24 hours after the muted response to the collection of A. Alfred Taubman, which barely broke its low estimate with a $377 million sale Wednesday, Sotheby's bounced back somewhat with a competent…
Many works went for below their low estimates, but a new high mark was set for Frank Stella
If you organized the sale that happened to include the priciest work of art ever sold at auction, maybe that means it’s time for a promotion. And so, Loic Gouzer will be the new Deputy Chairman…
Though Christie's elected not to publicly list the estimated sale price for Louise Bourgeois's Spider (1997), which will be auctioned as <a…
A slew of auction records for artists with serious Frieze week buzz, plus a Peter Doig that went for £9.6 million ($14.8 million), helped Christie's climb to a total haul of £35.5 million ($54.8…
When the smoke cleared on a two-part sale that inched closer and closer to the three-hour mark, Sotheby's had pulled in a total of £76.8 million ($118.8 million) during its evening sales for postwar…
When Fredric Brandt, the plastic surgeon to the stars, took his own life earlier this year, he left behind a trove of artworks that might have surprised those who thought his tastes were purely…
Kenny Schachter is a London-based art dealer, curator, and writer. The opinions expressed here are his own. I am convinced that the art market is in an extended bull run the likes of which have never…
Well, this has to be a first. A publicist at a boutique New York PR agency just emailed to note that a relatively young artist they work with—the artist’s age is included in the note—was a "high…
Led by Picasso, Matisse and Monet, Sotheby's New York tallied $219 million at an uneven Impressionist and modern art sale last night.
