Auctions A Rediscovered Rembrandt Masterpiece Will Head to Auction at Sotheby’s With an $18 Million Estimate Sotheby’s said the work has been “entirely unseen” by scholars for nearly 75 years. By Adam Schrader, Oct 10, 2023
Auctions An Early Edition of an ‘Unhinged’ Christopher Columbus Letter Outlining What He Discovered in America Could Fetch $1.5 Million at Auction The account sent to King Ferdinand is full of fantasies and inaccuracies. By Adam Schrader, Oct 9, 2023
Auctions 5 Fascinating Backstories Behind the Week’s Auction Highlights, From Banksy’s Graffitied Church Window to Paula Rego’s Human Ostriches It's going to be a very busy week in London. By Lee Carter, Oct 9, 2023
Auctions By the Numbers: A Breakdown of Results From Sotheby’s Hong Kong Evening Art Sales, October 2023 Last week's dismal results do not convey a rosy picture for the market this fall. By Vivienne Chow, Oct 9, 2023
Auctions Despite Setting Sales Records, the Auction of the Long Museum Founders’ Collection Fell Flat at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. What Went Wrong? With many premium lots unsold, the sale total did not meet presale expectations, even after fees. By Vivienne Chow, Oct 5, 2023
Auctions Six Egon Schiele Artworks Recently Restituted to the Heirs of a Jewish Collector Could Fetch Millions When They Hit the Block at Christie’s The sales mark the newest chapter in a years-long saga involving dozens of Schieles once owned by Fritz Grünbaum. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 5, 2023
Auctions The Collection of ‘Ghostbusters’ Director Ivan Reitman Heads to Christie’s, Led By a Rare Picasso Portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter 'Femme endormie' is estimated at $25 million to $35 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 4, 2023
Auctions A Long-Lost Letter Penned by George Washington During the Revolutionary War Hits the Market for $275,000 It is the only wartime document in which the President invoked "Heaven." By Artnet News, Oct 2, 2023
Auctions The Bizarre Saga of How an Isa Genzken Sculpture Wound Up on a German TV Show, Then a Sotheby’s Auction, Only to Be Mysteriously Yanked How did a valuable sculpture end up on TV? By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 2, 2023
Auctions An Enigmatic Still-Life Picasso, Made During His Now-Celebrated ‘Wonder Year’ of 1932, Will Hit the Auction Block This Fall The auction house says that 'Compotier et guitare' is an abstracted depiction of Picasso's most famous muse. By Vivienne Chow, Oct 1, 2023
Auctions Live and Let Buy: Roger Moore’s ‘James Bond’ Collection Heads to Auction on the 50th Anniversary of His Debut as 007 The quintessential Bond for many, Moore portrayed the charismatic secret agent more than any other actor. By Lee Carter, Sep 28, 2023
Auctions Oops! Bill Acquavella Just Blew the Lid on a Multi-Million Basquiat Slated for Christie’s Auction in November You never know where you will find auction intel. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 27, 2023
Auctions The Most Expensive Wine Auction Ever, Featuring 25,000 Bottles of the Rarest Vintage, Could Fetch $50 Million The bottles come from the cellar of Pierre Chen, a major art collector who's currently sponsoring a show at Tate Modern. By Lee Carter, Sep 27, 2023
Auctions By the Numbers: A Breakdown of Results From Christie’s Shanghai and Hong Kong Evening Sales, September 2023 Despite reports of market corrections and economic downturn, the sale series met presale expectations. By Vivienne Chow, Sep 27, 2023
Auctions A Rediscovered Oil Sketch by Renowned 19th-Century Painter John Constable Has Fetched an Astonishing $245,000 at Auction The painting was discovered in a dark corner of a townhouse in Guernsey, U.K. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 25, 2023
