Auctions The Met Has Confirmed Plans to Sell a $30 Million Bronze Picasso Sculpture at Auction to Boost Its Acquisition Fund The museum currently owns two versions of the bronze cast. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 9, 2022
Auctions Despite Talk of a Boycott of the Russian-Owned Auction House, Phillips Cruises to a Solid $40 Million Evening Sale in London The overall results were strong, especially considering challenges in the lead-up to the auction. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 3, 2022
Auctions Russian-Owned Phillips Will Donate the Full Net Proceeds From Its London Sale—$7.7 Million—to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society Phillips announced the Red Cross partnership the morning of the sale. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 3, 2022
Auctions It Turns Out Richard Gere Is an Extremely Savvy Photography Collector—and He’s Selling His Star-Studded Holdings at Christie’s Gere's collection will be on view at Christie's Beverly Hills gallery March 23–26. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 3, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Landed $297.2 Million at Its Modern and Contemporary Sales in London, Powered by a Record-Breaking Magritte So far the art market doesn't seem too disturbed by the unfolding geopolitical crisis. By Naomi Rea, Mar 2, 2022
Auctions Powered by a Restituted Franz Marc, Christie’s Inaugural Shanghai to London Sale Brings in a Sterling $334 Million The five-hour production spanned three sales, two continents, and many, many time zones. By Vivienne Chow, Mar 1, 2022
Auctions A Prized Basquiat Owned by Billionaire Mega-Collector Yusaku Maezawa Could Fetch More Than $70 Million at Auction This Spring Maezawa also revealed he is planning to build a museum to house his collection. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 28, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Expected to Sell 104 CryptoPunks for a Record $30 Million. Instead, the Collection Was Pulled Just Before the Sale The consignor, who goes by @0x650d on Twitter, posted simply, “nvm, decided to hodl." By Katya Kazakina, Feb 23, 2022
Auctions A Long-Lost Religious Panel Set a $4 Million Auction Record for Northern Renaissance Artist Bernhard Strigel The work was part of an altarpiece in Memmingen and has a companion in the Louvre Abu Dhabi. By Naomi Rea, Feb 7, 2022
Auctions The Great-Grandaughter of a Jewish Art Patron Spent Years Tracking Down His Collection. She Just Sold the First Restituted Work A German state art collection restituted the painting to the heirs of Jules Strauss. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 2, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Selling an Immense Black Diamond It Claims Came From Outer Space Some experts question the extraterrestrial origins of carbonaro diamonds. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 30, 2022
Auctions Bonhams Hoped to Pull in $60,000 From an Auction of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Library. The Sale Made $2.4 Million Every single lot in the auction sold above its high estimate. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 28, 2022
Auctions Korean Galleries and Auction Houses May Finally Be Coming to an Agreement After a Long-Simmering Turf War South Korean galleries have fought back against the auction houses' aggressive tactics by holding their own closed-door sale. By Eileen Kinsella & Vivienne Chow, Jan 28, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Aims to Lure Chinese Buyers With a $47 Million Restituted Franz Marc Painting at Its Shanghai-London Relay Sale The auction house hopes deep-pocketed young Chinese buyers interested in Western art will stay on to bid remotely for the London sale. By Vivienne Chow, Jan 27, 2022
Auctions A Cash-Strapped Korean Museum Hoped to Raise Money by Auctioning Off Two National Treasures. They Didn’t Get a Single Bid The works will now be returned to the Kansong Art and Culture Foundation. By Vivienne Chow, Jan 27, 2022
