Auctions A Series of Never-Before-Seen Dora Maar Photographs Will Hit the Auction Block in Paris Next Month The artist’s estate is releasing 750 photographs from the archives. By Dorian Batycka, May 30, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Hong Kong Art Auction Exceeds Expectations With a $184 Million Haul That Set 11 New Records for Market Stars Christie's wide ranging combination of classic painting with ultra-contemporary names drew an eager pool of buyers. By Eileen Kinsella, May 26, 2022
Auctions Thanks to Crowdfunding and a Last-Minute Donation From the State, Two Aboriginal Artworks Are Heading Back to Australia The objects, created in 1897 by Wurundjeri artist William Barak, were featured in Sotheby's Aboriginal Art auction last night. By Taylor Dafoe, May 26, 2022
Auctions A Rare Painting by Joan Carlile, One of England’s First Female Portrait Painters, Is Going to Auction in London The work is expected to fetch upwards of $60,000. By Dorian Batycka, May 25, 2022
Auctions A Roman Marble Bust Heading to Auction Could Have Ties to Disgraced Dealer Robin Symes, an Antiquities Expert Says Hindman Auctions said there is no proof of a link between the dealer and the Roman head. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 24, 2022
Auctions The Estate of Late Antiquities Dealer Forrest Fenn, Who Hid a $2 Million Treasure Chest in the Mountains, Is Heading to Auction Highlights include one of Sitting Bull's pipes. By Sarah Cascone, May 23, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Closes the Spring New York Auction Season With a Double-Header Contemporary Art Sale That Nets $283.4 Million The house hosted two sales Thursday night to round out two weeks of auction action. By Annie Armstrong, May 19, 2022
Auctions A British Surgeon Bought a Chinese Vase for a Few Hundred Pounds in the 1980s. It Just Sold for $1.9 Million It turned out to be from the 18th-century Qianlong period. By Dorian Batycka, May 19, 2022
Auctions Phillips’s $225 Million Evening Sale Marks Its Biggest-Ever Night, Led by an Astounding Basquiat Basquiat's 'Untitled' alone drew $85 million on an evening the house's deputy chairman Robert Manley called 'historic.' By Annie Armstrong, May 18, 2022
Auctions A Maud Lewis Painting Once Traded for Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Fetches a Sizzling 10 Times Its Estimate at Auction The work set a new record for the Canadian folk artist. By Dorian Batycka, May 18, 2022
Auctions A Michelangelo Drawing Just Sold at Christie’s for $21 Million, the Highest Price Ever Paid for a Work by the Old Master at Auction The drawing was rediscovered in 2019. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 18, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Notched a Solid $408.5 Million Modern Art New York Sale Fueled by the Reliable Churn of Blue-Chip Monets and Picassos The sale set new records for Milton Avery and Leonora Carrington. By Eileen Kinsella, May 17, 2022
Auctions The $922 Million Macklowe Sale at Sotheby’s Displaces the Rockefeller Estate as the Priciest Private Art Trove in Auction History The second chapter of the divorced couple's collection made $246.1 million, exceeding pre-sale expectations. By Katya Kazakina, May 16, 2022
Auctions This Iconic Man Ray Print Just Became the Most Expensive Photograph Ever Sold at Auction The sale was dedicated to the Surrealism-heavy collection of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs and Melvin Jacobs. By Taylor Dafoe, May 16, 2022
Auctions Ernie Barnes Stole the Show at Christie’s With His $15.3 Million Painting. Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About ‘The Sugar Shack’ The painting had a prominent role in the groundbreaking sitcom "Good Times." By Sarah Cascone, May 16, 2022
