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…

Basquiat remains ‘king of capital gains’ as rare work fetches $40m at Christie’s white-glove sale in New York
The Art Newspaper
November 10, 2021 by Judd Tully

All lots sold and records were set for ten artists, including Peter Doig, Stanley Whitney, Xinyi Cheng and Nicolas Party Read more…

A Well-Traveled Basquiat lands for $41.8 million at Christie’s Hong Kong
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March 26, 2021 by Judd Tully

The art market showed off considerable strength on Tuesday (March 23) during Christie’s marathon, 3 ½ hour live-streamed auction in Read more…

Christie’s Pulls in $61 million in back to back Live-Streamed Auctions
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March 3, 2021 by Judd Tully

Powered in part by a ravishing Vincent van Gogh portrait on paper and a Sir Winston Churchill Moroccan cityscape, Christie’s Read more…

Another Sterling week of Hong Kong 20th Century and Contemporary Art sales
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December 4, 2020 by Judd Tully

Nipping and then some at the high heels of Sotheby’s $88.2 million result for its contemporary art evening sale in Read more…

Sotheby’s Back-to-Back Evening Sales of Contemporary & Impressionist & Modern Art
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October 30, 2020 by Judd Tully

The so-called hybrid digital live stream model of art auctions invented out of necessity from the Covid pandemic, soldiers on Read more…

Christie’s $340.8 Million Live-Stream Evening Sale
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October 7, 2020 by Judd Tully

Led by an elegiac Cy Twombly abstraction from the 1960’s and a custom-framed Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton from circa 67 million Read more…

Dear Keith’s $4.6 million White Glove Sale at Sotheby’s
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October 5, 2020 by Judd Tully

The week long online sale that closed on October 1st, “Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring” Read more…

Matthew Wong Sells for Estimate Busting $575,000
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August 28, 2020 by Judd Tully

Despite an Instagram launched plea from Pulitzer Prize winning critic Jerry Saltz to stop the sale, Fair Warning sold Matthew Read more…