Christie’s $84M Post-War and Contemporary Sale Bucks Financial Markets’ Slump
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February 11, 2016 by Judd Tully

Amid a grim trading day of sinking financial markets worldwide, Christie’s Post-War/Contemporary evening art auction pulled off an impressive and Read more…

Phillips’ Respectable $35.1M 20th Century & Contemporary Art Sale
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February 9, 2016 by Judd Tully

LONDON — Bucking strong financial headwinds from the global economy, Phillips managed to pull off a decent though hardly robust Read more…

Sotheby’s Mixed-Message Evening in London
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February 4, 2016 by Judd Tully

Though impressively powered by four works that sold for over £10 million apiece, Sotheby’s Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist Art evening Read more…

Christie’s Reassuring London Opener
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February 2, 2016 by Judd Tully

The London auction season opened with a low-key yet reassuring result, as Christie’s Impressionist, Modern and Art-of-the-Surreal evening sale delivered Read more…

On the Block: London Sales
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February 2, 2016 by Judd Tully

As 2016 dawns, the auction specialists’ usual hyperbole predicting record prices for their hard-won wares is strikingly absent. The combination Read more…

A Bleak Forecast from Sotheby’s
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January 23, 2016 by Judd Tully

In an unusual conference call for Sotheby’s investors and analysts on Friday morning, ahead of its official report for the Read more…

RM Sotheby’s “Driven By Disruption” Fetches $74.1 Million
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December 12, 2015 by Judd Tully

In its second New York outing, the hybrid classic car auction partnership of RM Sotheby’s delivered a somewhat underpowered $76.1 Read more…

Softening Warhol Market Vexes Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Sale
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November 11, 2015 by Judd Tully

Spurred on by a number of high-performing entries, but held back by a softening Warhol market, Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Read more…

Led by Modigliani, Christie’s Brings in Half a Billion With “The Artist’s Muse”
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November 10, 2015 by Judd Tully

Powered by two record-setting 20th century masterworks, by Amedeo Modigliani and Roy Lichtenstein, Christie’s “Artist’s Muse: A Curated Evening Sale” Read more…

Sotheby’s $377M “A. Alfred Taubman: Masterworks” Sale
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November 8, 2015 by Judd Tully

The big fall auction season in New York got off to a glitzy yet tentative start at Sotheby’s with “The Read more…