The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles acquired Quentin Metsys’s rediscovered 16th-century masterpiece, Madonna of the Cherries, at Christie’s London Old Masters sale on July 2. The panel painting set a new auction record for the Flemish Renaissance artist, fetching £10.66
A drawing attributed to the Italian modernist Amedeo Modigliani was about to be sold with a price tag of €300,000 ($320,000) when it was exposed as a fake by the Venice Cultural Heritage Protection Unit. The work aroused immediate suspicion when it
“Andy Warhol by Hand: The 1950s” showcases Warhol’s work prior to his foray into screenprinting. The highlight is Warhol’s ink on paper “Butterfly Lady” circa 1953, which could fetch over $100,000—the highest pre-sale estimate among the 27 lots. “It is a prominent
A guitar used by John Lennon has become the most expensive Beatles instrument ever sold at auction. The Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar, presumed lost for over 50 years, was found in an attic, according to auctioneers. It sold for $2.9 million
Bonhams’ upcoming Modern and Contemporary Art sale in Hong Kong will feature “Infinity,” an unseen painting by Yayoi Kusama. Created in 1995, this red-and-black artwork combines two of Kusama’s iconic motifs: dots and infinity nets. With an estimated value exceeding $5 million,
Sotheby’s announced that a Monet masterpiece fetched nearly $35 million at auction on the evening of May 15, marking a robust beginning to New York’s spring art sales. Sotheby’s and Christie’s kicked off their spring season on Monday. Despite a softening global
The upcoming auction at Sotheby’s New York will feature Thomas Taylor’s original watercolor drawing for the first installment of the Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (1997). With a high estimate of $600,000, this iconic image served as the
The gold watch worn by John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest passenger aboard the Titanic, has set a new auction record for the most expensive item of Titanic memorabilia. A private collector in the U.S. purchased the 14-carat gold Waltham pocket watch, engraved
A portrait by Gustav Klimt, missing for a century, recently fetched $32 million at a Vienna auction house. The Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917), with an estimated value of €30 million–€50 million ($32.5 million–$55 million), was acquired by a buyer from Hong
Phillips auction house is set to offer three paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat during its spring sales in New York and Hong Kong. These works, created between 1981 and 1982, originate from the collection of anthropologist Francesco Pellizzi and were acquired from Basquiat’s
