Christie’s 20th century evening sale in New York defies fears of a jittery market
The Art Newspaper
November 10, 2023 by Judd Tully

Swan song of veteran auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen made $640.8m—the house’s highest total for a non-single-owner sale in six years. It 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…

Inigo Philbrick’s 7-Year Sentence for $86 Million Fraud Has Rattled the Art World
Artnews
May 26, 2022 by Judd Tully

The once high-flying art fraudster Inigo Philbrick was sentenced to sentenced to seven years in prison Monday in connection with an $86 Read more…

Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art Sale Hits New Heights
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May 19, 2022 by Judd Tully

Anchored by a major and massive scaled Jean-Michel Basquiat painting, Phillips scored a company record $224,906,950 on Wednesday evening. The Read more…

Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale
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May 11, 2022 by Judd Tully

Christie’s recently reformatted 21st Century Evening sale, a cerebral mix and match of younger and more established artists, showed off 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…

How Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Sisters Organized an Exhibition Dedicated to Their Brother’s Life and Legacy, Full of Works Unseen for Decades
Artnews
April 14, 2022 by Judd Tully

“King Pleasure,” a massive exhibition and homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat organized by the late artist’s two sisters, Lisane Basquiat and 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…

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…