Jeff Koons Rabbit Goes for Record $91.1 M. at Rock-Solid $539 M. Christie’s Contemporary Sale
Artnews
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…

$49.8 M. Francis Bacon Portrait Leads Solid $397.1 M. Christie’s Contemporary Sale
Artnews
May 18, 2018 by Judd Tully

Anchored by a powerful Francis Bacon cover-lot portrait, Christie’s closed the season’s evening auctions in New York on Thursday night Read more…

Collector Sues Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons Studio for ‘Non-Delivery’ of Three Sculptures
Artnews
April 9, 2018 by Judd Tully

In a case that is bound to rock the art world, a prominent New York collector and art patron has Read more…

Christie’s London Crisply Executed Impressionist and Modern Eve Sale
Blog
June 27, 2017 by Judd Tully

Powered by a trio of paintings that each fetched in excess of £20 million, Christie’s Impressionist and Modern evening sale Read more…

Christie’s Scores 4th Biggest Art Auction Ever, Pulls In $1.36 Billion in 2 Nights
Blouin Artinfo
May 14, 2015 by Judd Tully

Flush with master works deemed desirable by the deep-pocketed art market, Christie’s continued its market dominance over arch-rival Sotheby’s on Read more…

Sotheby’s Solid Night of Contemporary Art
Blouin Artinfo
May 13, 2015 by Judd Tully

Buoyed by a quartet of $20 million plus lots, the contemporary art market once again proved its marathon mettle in Read more…

Christie’s Breaks Another Record With an Assist From Asian Bidders
Blouin Artinfo
May 15, 2014 by Judd Tully

In a night rich in $20 million-plus offerings, Christie’s brought in a mind-boggling $744,944,000 in its Post-War and contemporary art Read more…

Echoes of a Landmark Sale Jussi Pylkkänen on the Rostrum
Auctioneers Who Made History
January 22, 2014 by Judd Tully

When auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen navigated the record-smashing $495.021,500 Post-War and Contemporary art evening sale at Christie’s New York in May Read more…

The Unstoppable Jean Pignozzi
Art and Auction Magazine
April 1, 2012 by Judd Tully

One of Jean Pignozzi’s many web sites summarizes him as an “Italian, Harvard-educated venture capitalist.” But that barely scratches the Read more…

Scandals and Share Prices Cause Auction Malaise
Masterpiece
June 1, 2000 by Judd Tully

Usually this is the time of year when the art world gears up with bated breath for the critical round Read more…