Low-Key Impressionist-Modern Auction in New York
Artnews
November 13, 2019 by Judd Tully

Fighting off the growing perception of a declining market, Sotheby’s managed to pull off a fairly decent, though not stellar, Read more…

Parliament-Bashing Banksy Sets Record at $89.5 M. Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sale in London
Artnews
October 3, 2019 by Judd Tully

Two figures who began as obscure street artists before rocketing to fame, one from Brooklyn and one from Bristol, dominated Read more…

Sotheby’s Hauls in $341.9 M. at Contemporary Auction, with SFMOMA’s Rothko Selling for $50.1 M
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May 17, 2019 by Judd Tully

Even as a U.S.–China trade war rages and the stock market continues through a volatile stretch, the contemporary art market Read more…

Jeff Koons Rabbit Goes for Record $91.1 M. at Rock-Solid $539 M. Christie’s Contemporary Sale
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May 16, 2019 by Judd Tully

A potent combination of record-setting Pop art masterworks and a stainless steel rabbit sculpture by you-know-who drove Christie’s postwar and Read more…

Record-Breaking $110.7 M. Monet Painting Leads Sotheby’s Imp-Mod Sale to Robust $349.9 M. Finish
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May 15, 2019 by Judd Tully

Powered by a stunning Claude Monet landscape that doubled its estimate and elicited hearty applause in the grand salesroom, Sotheby’s Read more…

Christie’s Imp-Mod Sale Brings in Market-Affirming $399 M., With Records for Balthus and Bonnard
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May 14, 2019 by Judd Tully

Despite a jaw-dropping day on Wall Street with the Dow tumbling more than 600 points, the art market performed in Read more…

Christie’s Chunky & Long Impressionist & Modern & Art of the Surreal Evening Sale
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February 27, 2019 by Judd Tully

Though marred by a number of pricey buy-ins, Christie’s London combo single owner, Impressionist & Modern and Art of the Read more…

Are Female Old Masters an Untapped Market or a Marketing Ploy?
Artnet
February 5, 2019 by Judd Tully

Experts Are Divided, But Buyers Don’t Seem to Care. Rarely traded work by female artists helped Sotheby’s Masters Week generate Read more…

Jenny Saville Painting Sells for $12.4 M. at Sotheby’s London, Record for Living Female Artist
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October 5, 2018 by Judd Tully

On Friday night, in a salesroom at Sotheby’s London, Jenny Saville’s masterful seated nude self-portrait Propped (1992), which features the Read more…

Rare Richter’s a Bust, but Christie’s Moves $25.9 M. Bacon, $21 M. Fontana at London Sales
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October 4, 2018 by Judd Tully

Christie’s postwar and contemporary art evening sale got socked with a pricey trio of unsold lots, including a rare-to-market Gerhard Read more…