Generous guarantees and a giant Warhol net a healthy $346.5m for Christie’s Modern evening sale in New York
The Art Newspaper
May 17, 2024 by Judd Tully

The reassuring result was a marked increase from last year’s equivalent auction—despite a cyberattack that has taken down the auction 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…

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…

The London Sales
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March 7, 2022 by Judd Tully

Last week’s London and beyond trio of auction house evening sales of modern and contemporary art held at Christie’s, Sotheby’s Read more…

Caillebotte masterpiece goes to Getty and four auction records smashed at Christie’s New York sale of Edwin Cox’s Impressionist trove
The Art Newspaper
November 12, 2021 by Judd Tully

Last night’s single-owner sale of the late Texan oilman’s vaunted collection brought in a massive $332m Who said Impressionism was Read more…

Christie’s rounds off New York’s auction week with strong $481m 20th century sale
The Art Newspaper
May 15, 2021 by Judd Tully

– Half of it was pre-sold through guarantees The sale was led by a classic 1932 Picasso of Marie-Thérèse at Read more…

Rogues Gallery
Artnews
October 20, 2020 by Judd Tully

Collectors’ Reversals of Fortune Can Mean a Payday for Auction Houses—or Spell Disaster Forced sales of fine art resulting from Read more…

Sotheby’s Marathon Night Reaps $363.2 Million
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June 30, 2020 by Judd Tully

The glass ceiling for art prices fetched in the digital realm were shattered on Monday evening at Sotheby’s live-streamed auction Read more…

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…

Sotheby’s London Solid Impressionist and Moderns Night
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June 19, 2019 by Judd Tully

Anchored by a small handful of world class offerings, Sotheby’s London delivered a solid yet compact evening sale of Impressionist Read more…