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Christie’s and Bonhams have raised buyer’s premiums, the fees paid on top of hammer prices, according to ARTnews. Christie’s changes take effect September 1, setting premiums at 28% up to and...
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A series of leadership and senior-staff departures at Phillips—including private sales chairman Miety Heiden, Asia chairman Jonathan Crockett, chief technology officer Joseph Prindle, and global...
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Christie’s London will auction Wassily Kandinsky’s “Das bunte Leben (The Colorful Life)” (1907) on 14 October during Frieze week, with an estimate in excess of $30 million. The painting was...
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A Connecticut court case over a Keith Haring drawing ended with the selling gallery prevailing after two major auction houses declined to handle the work due to insufficient provenance documentation....
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A platinum Art Deco necklace commissioned in 1938 by Queen Nazli of Egypt and set with 673 baguette-cut and brilliant-cut diamonds was stolen in a daytime heist at Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts...
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The UK government has placed an export bar on Rembrandt’s Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet (1657), valued at £71m, calling it the most expensive object ever to receive national-treasure status under the...
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A platinum Van Cleef & Arpels diamond necklace valued at $4.3 million was stolen from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) on Thursday after two men entered as ordinary visitors, smashed a display...
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Welsh music photographer Justin Thomas sued artist Elizabeth Peyton, David Zwirner Gallery, and Sotheby’s for copyright infringement in an August 20 filing in the Southern District of New York over...
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Photographer Justin Thomas filed a copyright infringement lawsuit last week in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against painter Elizabeth Peyton, Sotheby’s, and David...
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Four works by Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina were stolen from the Museo Regionale di Messina in Sicily on 15 August during Assumption Day (Ferragosto) celebrations, Messina’s mayor Federico...
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Thieves broke into the Regional Museum of Messina (MuMem) in Sicily during Ferragosto celebrations on a Saturday evening and stole three surviving panels from Antonello da Messina’s altarpiece...
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Sotheby’s has secured the collection of late Argentine collectors Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier (died 2020) and Carlos Pedro Blaquier (died 2023), a group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works...
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A British collection of 318 Jurassic fossils gathered by UK fossil hunter Chris Moore on England’s UNESCO-listed Jurassic Coast has been sold to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, prompting...
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In 2021, British artist Sacha Jafri sold his 17,000-square-foot painting The Journey of Humanity in Dubai for £45 million (about $62 million at the time), with proceeds intended for UNICEF, UNESCO,...
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Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier filed a request in US federal court in the Southern District of New York seeking an order compelling Sotheby’s to produce records tied to the private sale of Pablo...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Christie’s and Sotheby’s reported sharply higher global sales in the first half of 2026, driven by high-value art and strong luxury categories. Christie’s posted $4.5bn in H1 revenue, with public...
Artnet News
Sotheby’s reported a record $4.4 billion in first-half 2026 sales (January–June), up 58% from the same period in 2025, according to Artnet News on July 14, 2026. Auction sales rose 59% to $3.4...
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A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as “Gus” sold for $50.1 million at Sotheby’s on Tuesday, becoming the most expensive dinosaur ever auctioned, ARTnews reported. The 67-million-year-old specimen...
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A July 13, 2026 Artnet News “Paint Drippings” roundup reported that New York investigators returned about $600,000 worth of looted art. The item also previewed upcoming fairs including Artissima’s...
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An Artnet News mid-year review published July 11, 2026, compared January–June fine-art auction results at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips using the Artnet Price Database. Phillips reported on...
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London’s Classics Week Old Masters evening sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s totaled £76.7 million ($101.6 million), a 9.4% increase over the same auctions last year, according to Artnet News....
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Christie’s and Sotheby’s held their London summer “part one” Old Master painting auctions on Tuesday and Wednesday, underscoring the market dominance of the two major international houses. Christie’s...
Hyperallergic
After several antiquities were removed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection in June, the total valuation of looted artifacts surrendered by the museum has reached about $95 million,...
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Sotheby’s announced it will auction more than 900 works from an unnamed collector in a series of sales beginning in October, with a total estimate exceeding $60 million. Branded “Magnum Opus,” the...
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Sotheby’s London auction of works from billionaire financier and former Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis’s collection achieved £249.3m (£296.3m with fees), setting a UK record for the most valuable...
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On Wednesday evening in London, Sotheby’s sold British billionaire Joe Lewis’s collection for £296.3 million ($392.6 million), setting a new European record for a single-owner sale and nearly...
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Artnet News reported that French police recovered a stolen Pablo Picasso painting during a drug-trafficking raid in Champigny-sur-Marne, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, on June 15. The...
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Ten years after the UK voted to leave the European Union on 23 June 2016, The Art Newspaper reports that Brexit’s effects on the British art market have been shaped by additional shocks including the...
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A life-size bronze cast of the classical group “Laocoön and his Sons,” one of only four known full-size period bronzes, is set to be auctioned in London as a prelude to Sotheby’s Old Masters evening...
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Mexico’s government urged Sotheby’s New York to withdraw two pre-Columbian objects from its Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas sale scheduled for 18 June, saying analyses by the National...
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Christie’s held its first South Asian art auction in London since 2019 on 11 June, achieving a white-glove, 93-lot single-owner sale totaling £18.9m with fees, far above its £2.9m–£4.3m pre-sale...
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ARTnews’s June 12, 2026 “Industry Moves” roundup reports that conservation scientist Francesca Casadio, currently vice president and Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science at the Art...
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Artnet News’s “Art Market Minute” column dated June 8, 2026 asks whether the “mega-gallery” business model is faltering, framing the question around recent pressures in the high-end gallery sector....
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In an Artnet News piece published June 7, 2026, the outlet surveys five dinosaur-themed artworks from the Artnet Gallery Network, linking contemporary art to long-running public fascination with...
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Patricia J. Leahy, a South Carolina–based claimant to the Lieser family estate, filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court seeking restitution of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Fräulein Margarethe...
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Sotheby’s attempted a highly secretive private auction on June 2 at its Manhattan Breuer Building for Jackson Pollock’s Number 19, 1951, owned by Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher, with an asking...
Hyperallergic
Prediction-market platform Kalshi has launched an art-focused category allowing users to wager on auction outcomes, including whether Andy Warhol will break his auction record this year and whether...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
American artist and social media satirist Hilde Lynn Helphenstein—known in the art world as “Jerry Gogosian”—has died at age 40, according to local media in Brazil. She was found dead at the Rosewood...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
New York’s May marquee auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s signaled renewed strength at the blue-chip end of the art market after a couple of slow years, fueled by major estate consignments and...
Artnet News
Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, the art-world satirist behind the Instagram meme account Jerry Gogosian, was found dead at the Rosewood São Paulo, Brazilian media reported, and the hotel confirmed it is...
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Kinetic art pioneer Julio Le Parc has died at age 97, as part of a wider Artnet News roundup that also highlights major appointments and upcoming fairs. The roundup reports that Art Basel Paris will...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic analysis of spring marquee auctions argues that headline results—such as a Jackson Pollock selling for $181.2 million and a Constantin Brancusi for $107.6 million at Christie’s—mask...
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Kalshi, a “prediction market” platform that frames its offerings as regulated derivatives trading, launched a new category allowing users to bet on art-auction outcomes, including the prices of...
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Christie’s held a 16-lot evening sale in May of works from the collection of media magnate S. I. Newhouse, totaling $630.8 million with fees and pushing cumulative Newhouse sales at Christie’s to...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Sotheby’s New York staged a two-part evening sale led by works from the late dealer and former Wall Street executive Robert Mnuchin (died December 2025, aged 92), totaling $407.5 million ($433.1...
Hyperallergic
The Independent art fair opened at Pier 36 on the Lower East Side waterfront, running through Sunday, May 17, marking its first time in the large warehouse-like venue. Hyperallergic reports that the...
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Artnet News, citing the Artnet Intelligence Report: Year Ahead 2026, reports that collectors in 2025 favored blue-chip artists and trophy lots as speculative ultra-contemporary art continued to cool....
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Artnet News reported on 10 May 2026 that the Aspen Art Fair will return to Hotel Jerome from 29 July to 1 August 2026 for its third edition, featuring more than 35 exhibitors including Albertz Benda,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper reported that New York’s May 2026 auctions at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips, and Bonhams are cumulatively estimated at $1.8 billion to $2.6 billion, as the market seeks to build...
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ARTnews previews major May auction sales amid a market that returned to 4 percent growth last year, reaching $59.6 billion, according to the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report. Christie’s will offer...
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Artnet News reported on April 27, 2026, that Art Basel has introduced a “Basel Exclusive” initiative to curb PDF pre-fair sales by encouraging galleries to hold back works from previews and...
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In an Artnet News “Art Market Minute” item, writers Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan reported that art-world uses of A.I. remain cautious because trust and relationships still drive many...
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ARTnews reported that a London exhibition at Delta House Gallery was canceled after UK Lawyers for Israel objected to drawings by artist Matthew Collings that the Telegraph described as “dripping...
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Two gilt-bronze botanical mirrors by French sculptor Claude Lalanne, commissioned by fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent beginning in 1974 for his Paris apartment, sold at Sotheby’s on April 22, 2026...
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In an Artnet News “Back Room” recap published April 18, 2026, Sotheby’s faces scrutiny over liquidity amid multiple developments, including a lawsuit by a New York real estate broker seeking a $10.2...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” opening in October, will present Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner as a “story of equals,” bringing together...
Hyperallergic
The Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York has acquired Wifredo Lam’s Portrait of a Boy (1927), marking the first painting by a Cuban artist to enter the institution’s permanent collection....
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The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present “Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols,” an exhibition of about 10 Jean-Michel Basquiat works owned by collector Kenneth C. Griffin, opening June 25....
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Artnet News reported on 2 April 2026 that two Claude Monet paintings, unseen publicly for around a century, have resurfaced and are headed to auction at Sotheby’s. The story centers on the works’...
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Christie’s, Phillips, and Sotheby’s generated a combined $164.9 million from their modern and contemporary evening sales in Hong Kong timed to Art Basel Hong Kong week, an 18% increase over...
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Tad Smith, former Sotheby’s CEO and current chairman of Doodles, has agreed to buy most assets of the digital collectibles platform Candy Digital and said on X that he will become CEO when the...
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Artnet News reported that Art Basel has named 290 exhibitors for its flagship fair in Basel, Switzerland. The roundup also notes that Sotheby’s has increased its buyer’s premium, raising the total...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
At Sotheby’s “Origins II” auction in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, held on 31 January 2026, Saudi painter Safeya Binzagr set a $2.1 million record when her 1968 work Coffee Shop in Madina Road sold,...
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ARTnews reported that Sotheby’s second sale in Saudi Arabia totaled $19.6 million, signaling continued growth in the kingdom’s auction market. The sale set a record for a Saudi artist, according to...
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Artnet News reported on January 30, 2026, that the Metropolitan Opera has explored monetizing two monumental Marc Chagall murals—The Sources of Music and The Triumphs of Music—installed at Lincoln...
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Sotheby’s recorded its highest total for a modern and contemporary art sale in Singapore since 2023, according to ARTnews.com. The result was presented as a sign of renewed strength in the city’s...