Auctions New Sotheby’s Owner Patrick Drahi Replaces CEO Tad Smith With a Trusted Turnaround Wizard New CEO Charles Stewart was most recently CFO of Drahi's company Altice USA. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 28, 2019
Auctions An Alma Thomas Painting That Is Set to Break Records at Christie’s Was Previously Owned by Bill Cosby The painting is expected to sell for between $2.2 million and $2.8 million. By Nate Freeman, Oct 25, 2019
Auctions Feverish Bidders Snapped Up All 274 Works in a Triumphant Sotheby’s Sale From the Collection of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne The sale quadrupled its high presale estimate and drew more that 4,000 bidders. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 25, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Hoping to Shake Up a Quiet Auction Season by Raking In $35 Million for This Rare Mark Rothko Painting It's one of the auction house's marquee lots this fall. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 24, 2019
Auctions A Whimsical Menagerie of Splendorous Beasts by the Lalannes Is Up for Sale at Sotheby’s—See Works From the Auction Here The auction house is selling off works that belonged to the famed couple. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 18, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Hong Kong Seeks to Seize a $33 Million Record for Chinese-French Modernist Sanyu With its ambitious estimate, Christie's hopes to outdo Sanyu's current world auction record of $25 million this November. By Tim Schneider, Oct 16, 2019
Auctions A Recently Discovered Portrait by Nigerian Star Ben Enwonwu Sold for Nearly Eight Times Its Estimate at Sotheby’s London Some see the sale as a bellwether for the market for modern and contemporary art from Africa. By Kate Brown, Oct 16, 2019
Auctions The Brooklyn Museum Is Selling This Rare Francis Bacon Pope Painting at Sotheby’s to Raise Money for Other Acquisitions The painting, estimated to fetch as much as $8 million, is one of only six surviving canvases from the artist's turbulent time in Tangier. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 16, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Making Major Changes to Its Executive Leadership in the Wake of Patrick Drahi’s Acquisition Drahi has replaced CFO Mike Goss and executive vice president John Cahill with the CEO of his family office. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 7, 2019
Auctions A Monumental Canvas by Yoshitomo Nara Sells for $25 Million in Hong Kong, Shattering the Artist’s Previous Auction Record It is the latest in a slew of artist records to be set at auction in Hong Kong. By Naomi Rea, Oct 7, 2019
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 A Signature Ed Ruscha Text Painting Could Fetch $40 Million at Christie’s Next Month and Shatter the Artist’s Auction Record The canvas is from the early 1960s. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 2, 2019
