Auctions In a Market Lacking Overall Confidence, Christie’s London Puts Together a Solid $79.6 Million Contemporary Sale The biggest successes of the night came from works by rising talents. By Colin Gleadell, Oct 4, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Stages a Stolid $67.3 Million Frieze Week Sale, Despite Boffo Bidding for Banksy, Basquiat, and Bacon Other standouts were Eisenman, Fontana, and Scarpitta. By Colin Gleadell, Oct 3, 2019
Auctions Banksy’s Chimp Parliament Painting Sells for a Startling $12 Million at Sotheby’s, Prompting Both Cheers and Jeers 'Devolved Parliament' came in equal to a work by Basquiat, and dwarfed interest in another monkey painting—by Francis Bacon. By Colin Gleadell, Oct 3, 2019
Auctions Phillips Defies Brexit Gloom as Records Tumble in Its $32 Million Contemporary Art Sale in London The sale set new records for Simone Leigh, Raoul De Keyser, Alex Katz, and others. By Colin Gleadell, Oct 2, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Kicks Off Frieze Week With a Bang With the $28 Million Sale of British Businessman Jeremy Lancaster’s Collection Philip Guston made a rare auction appearance—and the top lot of the sale. By Colin Gleadell, Oct 1, 2019
Auctions Works by Women Artists Spark Excitement at Phillips’s Star-Studded $45.5 Million Contemporary Sale in London The sale, which came in toward the low side of its overall estimate, included two Basquiats from the collection of ex-Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 27, 2019
Auctions A $21 Million Francis Bacon Portrait and a Bevy of Middle Eastern Bidding Fuel Sotheby’s $88.4 Million Postwar London Sale New records were set this evening for Pascale Marthine Tayou and Toyin Ojih Odutola, but the overall results were moderate. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 26, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Jumps Back Into the London Summer Postwar Evening Auction Calendar With a Steady $57 Million Sale The auction house is trying to find its way after dropping the sale from its calendar the past two seasons. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 25, 2019
Auctions A Serene Monet and Several Restituted Treasures Reassure the Market at Sotheby’s $124 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale The action assuaged market jitters after a rocky performance at Christie's Impressionist and Modern sale on Tuesday. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 19, 2019
Auctions Late Picasso Works Save an Otherwise Lackluster $46 Million Impressionist and Modern Art Sale at Christie’s London Meanwhile, Barbara Hepworth and Frank Bowling headlined the auction house's lively Modern British art sale. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 18, 2019
Auctions Gerhard Richter’s Jet Fighter Lands in Phillips’s Respectable $48 Million Sale in London, But Bullish Bidding Is Hard to Find Phillips capped off a somewhat difficult week at the auctions in London. By Colin Gleadell, Mar 7, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Navigates a Tough $104 Million London Sale With a $49 Million Hockney—But Jordan Casteel Is the Breakout Star Overall, the sale showed London's auction market on a downtrend. By Colin Gleadell, Mar 6, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Delivers a Solid $123 Million in Its Last Contemporary Sale Before Brexit, But Suggests an Anxious Market The sale boasted high marks for works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Lucian Freud, but two Richters from Marc Jacobs's collection fell flat. By Colin Gleadell, Mar 5, 2019
Auctions Signac Sails to a Record While Van Gogh and Monet Bellyflop in Christie’s $220 Million London Impressionist and Modern Sale Missing its lofty expectations, the London sale was determined by the very different fates of two glamorous estate collections. By Colin Gleadell, Feb 27, 2019
Market Surreal Paintings and Staid Sales Kicked Off London’s Impressionist and Modern Art Week at Sotheby’s $115 Million Auction Monet's ethereal painting of Le Palais Ducal led the sale at $36 million. By Colin Gleadell, Feb 26, 2019
