Auctions From an Outperforming Algorithm to Dakar’s Overnight Art Star, Here Are the 8 Biggest Auction Surprises of 2018 We look back at the year in auctions. By Colin Gleadell, Dec 13, 2018
Art World A Famous Banksy Self-Destructs Live as Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sales Fetch $91.5 Million in London The British street artist and the auction house brought some calculated spectacle to the evening's proceedings. By Colin Gleadell, Oct 6, 2018
Art World Led by a Joan Mitchell and the Karshan Collection, Phillips’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale Takes $26.4 Million in London Christopher Wool and Günther Förg were other stars of the evening. By Colin Gleadell, Oct 5, 2018
Auctions Christie’s London Kicks Off the Frieze Week Auctions With a Tempered—and Very Brit-Centric—$161 Million Contemporary Sale The evening's top lot was a 1972 Francis Bacon painting that sold for $26 million. By Colin Gleadell, Oct 4, 2018
Auctions Auction Powerhouse Christie’s Shrinks Down in London for Two Modest Summer Sales Fetching $17.5 Million Works by Elizabeth Neel, Dana Schutz, and Marc Camille Chaimowicz all exceeded expectations. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 28, 2018
Auctions Led by Kippenberger, Phillips’s London Auction Fetches $45.2 Million—A White-Glove Sale Leaving Last Year’s in the Dust The auctioneer's evening sale was up 41 percent from the year before and found a buyer for every lot. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 27, 2018
Auctions Ringing in Major Sales, Sotheby’s $146 Million Contemporary Art Auction Reaffirmed the Deep Pockets of London’s Summer Season Work by Peter Doig, Henry Taylor, and Cecily Brown proved there is an abundant appetite for coveted art in London, even during vacation season. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 26, 2018
Auctions Christie’s Revives the Market’s Mood With a Strong $168 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale in London The auction was led by a rare Monet that sold for $32.8 million. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 20, 2018
Auctions Sotheby’s Begins the Summer Season With a Limp $116 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale, Its Lowest Total Since 2012 Much of the tally was secured in advance by a hefty slate of guarantees. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 19, 2018
Auctions Phillips Steps It Up With a Triumphant $135 Million Auction in London, the House’s Best Ever Making history on several levels, the sale managed to place major works of Modern art by Picasso and Matisse alongside contemporary fare. By Colin Gleadell, Mar 8, 2018
Auctions Sotheby’s Notches a Robust $151.7 Million Contemporary Sale in London, Despite Flops by Hockney and Doig Guaranteed lots accounted for over half the value of the sale, which included works by in demand artists Christopher Wool, Gerhard Richter and Albert Oehlan. By Colin Gleadell, Mar 8, 2018
Auctions Christie’s Kicks Off London’s Contemporary Auctions With a Solid $192 Million Sale, Led by Warhol New records were set for Mark Bradford, Kelley Walker, George Condo, and others. By Colin Gleadell, Mar 6, 2018
Auctions A Petite $69 Million Picasso Leads Sotheby’s Solid $189 Million Impressionist Sale in London The portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter is now the second most expensive work ever sold at auction in Europe. By Colin Gleadell, Feb 28, 2018
Auctions A Late Picasso ‘Musketeer’ Leads a Healthy $206 Million Impressionist & Modern Sale at Christie’s London Picasso's painting of a musketeer with a nude woman sold for £13.7 million. By Colin Gleadell, Feb 28, 2018
Exhibitions Experts Say Russian Modernism Show at Ghent Museum Is ‘Highly Questionable’ Some of the field's leading scholars and dealers are criticizing the exhibition of works loaned by a Russian businessman. By Colin Gleadell, Jan 15, 2018
