Auctions Sotheby’s Is Preparing to Sell an Early Banksy Sculpture—But Now the Secretive Street Artist’s Nemesis Says That He’s the Rightful Owner A Banksy work that was stolen almost 15 years ago has resurfaced at Sotheby's with a $1.3 million high estimate. By Kate Brown, Nov 18, 2019
Auctions Has the AI-Generated Art Bubble Already Burst? Buyers Greeted Two Newly Offered Works at Sotheby’s With Lackluster Demand The two lots failed to spark the same frenzied bidding that Obvious's work generated last year. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 15, 2019
Auctions Asian Bidding Rouses Sotheby’s $270.7 Million Contemporary Sale, With the Same Buyer Snapping Up Two of the Priciest Paintings Still, fireworks were muted—the sale's total was down more than 25 percent from the equivalent sale in 2018. By Nate Freeman, Nov 14, 2019
Auctions A Triumphant Basquiat and an Unexpected Norman Rockwell Help Boost Phillips to a Strong $108 Million Evening Sale Meanwhile, French artist Julie Curtiss cements her place as a market darling. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 14, 2019
Auctions A Masterwork by Female Baroque Painter Artemisia Gentileschi, Unseen for 40 Years, Sells for a Record $5.3 Million Her painting Lucretia smashed its high estimate of around $880,000. By Caroline Elbaor, Nov 14, 2019
Auctions A Record-Breaking Ed Ruscha of a Word Being Tortured Injects Life Into Christie’s Otherwise Sober $325 Million Contemporary Sale Other star lots failed to surpass expectations. By Tim Schneider, Nov 13, 2019
Auctions This Rare Portrait of a Teenage Mozart at Work Is Heading to Auction in Paris—and It Could Fetch More Than $1 Million The work features the 13-year-old prodigy sitting at an organ, wearing a wig. By Maxwell Williams, Nov 13, 2019
Auctions A Bronze Hippo Bathtub Made a Giant Splash at Christie’s, Selling for $4.3 Million—25 Times What Its Seller Bought It For Someone will be taking their bubble baths in a multimillion-dollar fixture by François-Xavier Lalanne. By Brian Boucher, Nov 13, 2019
Auctions A Few Technical Difficulties May Have Been the Most Exciting Thing About Sotheby’s $209 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale A new record was set for Tamara de Lempicka, but a Picasso work sold despite missing its low estimate by a wide margin. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 12, 2019
Auctions The Art Collection of Walt Disney’s Daughter Could Bring in $14 Million at Christie’s Beginning This Week The collection of Ron and Diane Disney Miller features Diebenkorn, Matisse, Wyeth, Thiebaud, and more. By Maxwell Williams, Nov 12, 2019
Auctions A Record-Setting Futurist Sculpture by Umberto Boccioni Carried Christie’s Workmanlike $191 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale Christie's opens fall auction week a solid, picture-by-picture approach. But results are still down 30 percent from last year. By Tim Schneider, Nov 11, 2019
Auctions Auction Guarantees Lifted the Art Market to Record-Breaking Heights. The Only Problem? The Golden Age of Guarantees Is Over These lucrative hedges were once the financial instrument of choice for speculators and market manipulators, but now they’ve lost their luster. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 10, 2019
Auctions Hot Lots: 7 Tantalizingly Undervalued Artworks in New York’s Fall Auctions, According to the Experts We spoke to the experts at Artnet Auctions to identify big opportunities in the postwar and contemporary sales. By Tim Schneider, Nov 10, 2019
Auctions From a Broadway Producer’s Picasso to a Record-Smashing Ruscha, Here’s Your Guide to the Top Works in the $1 Billion Fall Auction Season High-price masterpieces are in short supply and estimates are down almost 40 percent from last year. But there's still plenty to look out for. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 6, 2019
Auctions Fashion Designer Marc Jacobs Is Selling Off His Entire Art Collection, Including a $3 Million Ed Ruscha Jacobs says he’s clearing out the old to make way for the new. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 31, 2019
