A modest square, hastily sketched on a weathered piece of paper believed to have been crafted by Michelangelo, will be up for auction in April in New York, as announced by auction house Christie’s. The experts at the company were inspecting a
Elton John is selling 900 items from his former Atlanta penthouse beginning on February 21 in a series of auctions at Christie’s estimated to gross $10 million. Last fall, John, together with husband and manager David Furnish, sold their 13,000-plus-square-foot Atlanta residence
A Diego Velázquez portrait of Spanish Queen Isabel de Borbón, which was expected to break the artist’s previous records, was quietly withdrawn from auction by Sotheby’s in New York. The court painting, which has been owned by a private family trust in
In 2023, the combined auction and private sales reported by the top two global auction houses, Christie’s and Sotheby’s, amounted to $14.2 billion, marking a decrease of over 13 percent from the $16.4 billion they reported in 2022, according to artnews.com. Christie’s
Two climate protestors briefly disrupted a Christie’s auction on Nov 11. Mun Chong and Jim Hicks of the climate emergency group Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) New York branch took to the stage during the Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper sale, interrupting the
A painting of water lilies by French impressionist Claude Monet has sold for $74 million, as part of a lively fall art auction season. “Le bassin aux nympheas” topped the projected sale price of $65 million when it went under the hammer
A 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso titled Femme à la montre from the collection of the late New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau, sold. at Sotheby’s during a New York evening sale for $139 million with fees. It marks the second-highest price
Sotheby’s will offer a rediscovered Rembrandt night scene for £10mn-£15mn as a highlight of its Old Masters sale in London this December. The small, nearly monochromatic work — “The Adoration of the Kings” (now dated c1628) — was catalogued as Circle of
The Old Masters auction at Dorotheum on 25th October 2023, will feature a rediscovered work on paper which has recently been identified as a late drawing by Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, the central artist of the High Renaissance. The sketch, depicting a horse
Freddie Mercury’s prized piano that he used to compose “Bohemian Rhapsody” and other hits by Queen sold for more than $2 million on Sept. 6 as some of the late singer’s massive collection of flamboyant stage costumes, fine art and original lyrics
