Late Botticelli Painting Sputters at Sotheby’s Old Masters Auction in New York, Selling for $45.4m
The Art Newspaper
January 27, 2022 by Judd Tully

The star lot of the sale, a rediscovered and austere portrait of Christ, hammered just below its estimate The Man Read more…

Covering the Art Market—A Long yet Abbreviated Look Back
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November 27, 2017 by Judd Tully

I started writing seriously about the art market as a stringer for the Washington Post Style section in late 1985. Read more…

Podcast episode nine: $450m! The Leonardo breaks all records
The Art Newspaper
November 17, 2017 by Judd Tully

How the art sale of the century happened, with Judd Tully, our man in the salesroom. Plus, a new museum Read more…

How the Art Sale of the Century Happened
The Art Newspaper
November 17, 2017 by Judd Tully

The Art Newspaper’s Weekly podcast is available every Friday on our website and all the usual places where you find podcasts including iTunes,Stitcher, Soundcloud and TuneIn. Read more…

Christie’s auction nets $785.9m, with a big assist from an Old Master
The Art Newspaper
November 15, 2017 by Judd Tully

Despite buy-ins, the sale saw several strong prices and records below the dizzy height of $450.3m for Leonardo da Vinci’s Read more…

Leonardo Da Vinci & Andy Warhol team up at Christie’s in November
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October 10, 2017 by Judd Tully

In an almost sacrilegious move, Christie’s will be offering the only known Leonardo da Vinci painting still in private hands Read more…