Auctions The Van Gogh Museum Paid $236,000 for a Revealing Letter by Van Gogh and Gauguin About Their Visits to Brothels The museum is planning an exhibition of the artist's letters this fall. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 17, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Teams Up With Old Master Dealers to Offer More Than 100 Artworks From Their Inventories in a Pair of Unorthodox Online Sales The sales are part of an emerging lockdown-era trend of galleries joining forces with auction houses. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 15, 2020
Auctions Christie’s Quietly Pulls Greek and Roman Antiquities From an Online Auction After Evidence Suggests They May Have Been Looted The artifacts were all linked to Gianfranco Becchina, a known dealer of looted antiquities. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 15, 2020
Auctions Wayne Thiebaud’s Painting of Pinball Machines Could Fetch $25 Million at Christie’s, Shattering the Artist’s Auction Record The 1962 painting is the latest high-profile lot to be announced for Christie's inventive global round-robin auction on July 10. By Artnet News, Jun 11, 2020
Auctions A Debonair Self-Portrait 26-Year-Old Rembrandt Made to Impress His Future In-Laws Could Fetch $20 Million at Sotheby’s One of the last Rembrandt self-portraits in private hands will headline a new cross-category auction this July at Sotheby's. By Kate Brown, Jun 8, 2020
Auctions An Upstart Auction House Just Sold One of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s SAMO Graffiti Tags—the Only Example Ever to Come to Market The work sold for more than $70,000. But where did it come from? By Nate Freeman, Jun 3, 2020
Auctions A Medal of Honor, Illegal to Sell in the US, Tripled Its Estimate at a German Auction House—Drawing the Wrath of Ted Cruz Interest in the 122-year-old medal spiked after Cruz spoke out against its sale in Germany. By Artnet News, Jun 3, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Will Reimagine the Auction Experience by Livestreaming Its Big-Money June Art Sales—Without an Audience The sale is scheduled for June 29. By Eileen Kinsella, May 29, 2020
Auctions The Collection of Cable-Television Impresario Ginny Williams, Full of Top-Notch Works by Women, Could Fetch $50 Million at Sotheby’s The collection will be sold across a series of sales throughout 2020. By Eileen Kinsella, May 22, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Online Contemporary Sale Fetches $13.7 Million—More Than Doubling the Previous Record for a Virtual Art Sale, Set Three Weeks Ago But the statistics don't account for the high number of withdrawn works. By Eileen Kinsella, May 15, 2020
Auctions Christie’s Will Replace Its Marquee June Sales in New York With a Streaming ‘Relay’ Auction to Unfold Across Four Cities Worldwide The sale kicks off at 8 p.m. local time in Hong Kong on July 10. By Eileen Kinsella, May 14, 2020
Auctions Allan Schwartzman, a Respected Market Guru, Is Leaving the Sotheby’s Auction House Amid a Continuing Staff Shakeup He will continue to work with the house as a consultant. By Eileen Kinsella, May 12, 2020
Auctions This Rare Mannerist Painting by a 17th-Century Italian Nun Just Broke a Record at Sotheby’s, Selling for 14 Times Its High Estimate A collector snapped up the picture for more than $260,000 in the auction house's online Old Masters sale. By Sarah Cascone, May 8, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Hoping for a Slam Dunk With a Pair of Game-Worn Michael Jordan Nikes That Could Fetch $150,000 Michael Jordan wore the signed shoes during his first season in the NBA. By Sarah Cascone, May 8, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Reopening Salesrooms—and Aggressively Cutting Costs—in a Race to Repay Almost $120 Million in Debt This Year A newly released report set off alarm bells about the company's debt load. By Eileen Kinsella, May 5, 2020
