Auctions Late Record Exec Mo Ostin’s $120 Million Art Collection Is Headed to Auction, Including Works by Magritte, Basquiat, and Picasso An industry legend, Ostin oversaw the signing of Jimi Hendrix, Madonna, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. By Artnet News, Apr 11, 2023
Auctions A TikToker Bought a Vintage Purse for $1. It Turned Out to Be a 1920s Cartier Bag That Sold for $9,450 at Auction Chandler West's stunning discovery has gone viral on TikTok. By Artnet News, Apr 7, 2023
Auctions Sotheby’s Hong Kong Evening Sale Brings In a Respectable $85.5 Million, Fueled by a Strong Demand for Ultra-Contemporary Art Artist records were set for Matthew Wong, Pang Jiun, Loie Hollowell, among others. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2023
Auctions A Rare Version of Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ Sells for a Record $2.8 Million, Signaling Smooth Sailing for Asia Week The series of gallery and auction sales netted a robust $132 million, driven by increased travel from China. By Lee Carter, Mar 30, 2023
Auctions Phillips Inaugurated Its New Asia Headquarters With a Lukewarm Evening Sale in Hong Kong That Raked in $45 Million The result represents an upward trend of the region's market following Hong Kong Art Week. By Vivienne Chow, Mar 30, 2023
Auctions A Home Appraiser Spotted a 500-Year-Old Brueghel Painting in a Family’s T.V. Room. They Just Sold It for $845,000 For generations, the family that owned the artwork believed it was a cheap knockoff. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 29, 2023
Auctions A Spectacular 1937 Patek Philippe Wristwatch, Owned by the Last Emperor of China, Has Resurfaced at Auction Aisin-Giro Puyi wore the luxury timepiece while he was detained in Siberia for five years. By Lee Carter, Mar 28, 2023
Auctions Sotheby’s Has Paused Its Latest NFT Auction Following Protests From Artists of the All-Male Line-Up Of the 17 glitch artists curated by Sotheby's, not a single one was female-identifying. By Richard Whiddington, Mar 28, 2023
Auctions New York’s Iconic Flatiron Building Sold for $190 Million in a Bitter Auction on the Steps of a Manhattan Courthouse Bidders battled it out for 40 minutes. By Lee Carter, Mar 24, 2023
Auctions What Defines ‘British Cool’? A Bonhams Sale Surveys the Vibe, With 11 Banksy Works, a Mick Jagger and Warhol Collab, and More The diverse array of offerings celebrates the rich cultural heritage of modern Britain and its enduring sense of cool. By Lee Carter, Mar 23, 2023
Auctions An Extremely Rare, Centuries-Old Italian Violin Hit a High Note at Auction, Selling for a Whopping $9.44 Million The 292-year-old violin is the third most expensive instrument to sell at auction. By Lee Carter, Mar 20, 2023
Auctions More Than 200 Artworks From the Collection of Gerald Fineberg Could Net $270 Million When They Hit the Block at Christie’s in May The late real estate magnate’s collection includes paintings by Gerhard Richter, Christopher Wool, and Alice Neel. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 20, 2023
Auctions Sotheby’s Surrealism Sale Fails to Meet Expectations, Pulling in an Under-Estimate $18 Million With Several Blue-Chip Works Going Unsold The sale was led by Magritte's homage to Vermeer, which sold for $3.2 million. By Vivienne Chow, Mar 16, 2023
Auctions The ‘Mona Lisa of the Deep’ and Hundreds of Other Treasures From a Gold Rush-Era Shipwreck Just Pulled In $1.1 Million at Auction The ship sank in 1857 while hauling gold from San Francisco to New York at the height of the California Gold Rush. By Lee Carter, Mar 13, 2023
Auctions ‘It Was Amazing to Use These Works to Tell a Story About Myself’: Adam Lindemann’s Collection Rakes in $32 Million in an Unusual Christie’s Auction Lindemann sold works by Koons, Warhol, Hirst, and more. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 10, 2023
