Restituted, record-setting Bronzino and gruesome Rubens lead Sotheby’s Old Masters sales in New York
The Art Newspaper
January 26, 2023 by Judd Tully

The auction house’s four-part auction extravaganza was a decidedly mixed bag, bringing a total of $74.5m across 124 lots What Read more…

Record-breaking Goya portraits lead the way at Christie’s muted $62.7m Old Masters auctions in New York
The Art Newspaper
January 25, 2023 by Judd Tully

Despite works the collection of film producer Jacqui Eli Safra that were enticingly offered with no reserves, the auction house’s Read more…

Phillips’s $138.7m contemporary art sale in New York reflects ‘a general cautiousness in the market’
The Art Newspaper
November 16, 2022 by Judd Tully

The measured result, which slightly surpassed its low estimate and the total take from the same sale last year, was Read more…

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s collection brings record-smashing $1.5bn at Christie’s evening sale in New York
The Art Newspaper
November 10, 2022 by Judd Tully

A $149.2m Seurat studio scene and $137.7m Cézanne landscape led the 60-lot, white glove sale Studded with masterpieces ranging from Read more…

As market for young artists grows, Sotheby’s turbocharged The Now sale in New York threatens to eclipse its contemporary evening auction
The Art Newspaper
May 20, 2022 by Judd Tully

While both back-to-back sales did well, works by artists under 40 were snapped up at a rate not matched by Read more…

Christie’s evening sales total $831.3m, with Texan poker player’s surprise bidding spree upstaging blue-chip successes
The Art Newspaper
May 14, 2022 by Judd Tully

On a night when many works outpaced expectations in Christie’s New York saleroom, Ernie Barnes’s “The Sugar Shack” sold for Read more…

Warhol’s Blue Marilyn sells for record-smashing $195m at Christie’s auction of Swiss dealers’ collection
The Art Newspaper
May 10, 2022 by Judd Tully

The collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann brought in $317.8m with fees, good for Christie’s forth-biggest single-owner sale ever. Powered Read more…

Late Botticelli Painting Sputters at Sotheby’s Old Masters Auction in New York, Selling for $45.4m
The Art Newspaper
January 27, 2022 by Judd Tully

The star lot of the sale, a rediscovered and austere portrait of Christ, hammered just below its estimate The Man Read more…

Strong prices for female painters and young artists—but Francis Bacon’s Pope sells to the guarantor—at Phillips’s $137.9m auction in New York
The Art Newspaper
November 18, 2021 by Judd Tully

The 20th century and contemporary art evening sale saw stiff competition for works by Shara Hughes, Joan Mitchell, Amy Sherald Read more…

Andy Warhol’s Muhammad Ali and other heavyweights help Christie’s make $420m in 20th-century sale in New York
The Art Newspaper
November 12, 2021 by Judd Tully

Only five of the 59 lots went unsold in the auction last night Following on the high heels of the Read more…