Sotheby's put the fizz back into its evening sale by serving up old style coca-cola in glass bottles just before its evening contemporary sale, in homage to its cover lot, a 1962 painting of a coca-co…
Christie's pulled off a marathon sale last night at Rockefeller center, selling a total of $231.4 million, a result in the middle of its projection. A healthy sale-67 lots sold, of 84-suggests tht col…
Christie's did it again last night, this time as the famed Michael Crichton collection spearheaded its evening sale of Post war and contemporary art. The quintessential American sale was exciting, wit…
The dust has safely settled on one of the biggest weeks that Christie's and Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern sales has seen in some time. And while Christie's dispensed with the most expensive art…
Some news you've probably heard already: Picasso's Nude Green Leaves and Bust (1932) sold for $106.5 million, overcoming the previous auction record for the most expensive work sold at auction. The…
Some 265 galleries from 33 countries participated in the eighth installment of Art Basel Miami Beach, newly and entirely in the Miami convention center. The new space, boasted 502,848-square-feet (as…
It doesn't get much better than this—96.3% sold by lot and 98.6% by value. Sotheby's sold 52 out of the 54 lots on offer, and sold them well-well above the estimates in many cases. According to Tobias…
The results of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern sales were superlative: of the 66 works on offer 56 sold (84.8% of the lot, 93.4% by dollar) the grand total including buyer's commission was $181,760…
Christie's Impressionist and Modern evening sale concluded with what many dealers and auction house staff would call a sigh of relief. Christopher Burge, the evening's auctioneer, handled the less tha…
Sotheby's clearly has the lead in volume this season, with 68 lots in the Impressionist and Modern evening sale. With a low pre-sale estimate of $116 million and a high of $165 million, Simon Shaw hea…