Auctions A $21 Million Francis Bacon Portrait and a Bevy of Middle Eastern Bidding Fuel Sotheby’s $88.4 Million Postwar London Sale New records were set this evening for Pascale Marthine Tayou and Toyin Ojih Odutola, but the overall results were moderate. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 26, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Jumps Back Into the London Summer Postwar Evening Auction Calendar With a Steady $57 Million Sale The auction house is trying to find its way after dropping the sale from its calendar the past two seasons. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 25, 2019
Auctions A Long-Lost (and Disputed) Caravaggio Due to Fetch as Much as $171 Million at Auction Was Just Sold in a Mysterious Private Sale The painting, Judith Beheading Holofernes, was discovered in an attic in 2014. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 25, 2019
Auctions A Swiss Family Used This Chinese Emperor’s Bronze Vessel to Store Their Tennis Balls. It Just Sold at Auction for $4.9 Million A specialist spotted the 17th-century incense burner on an unrelated visit to the family's home. By Caroline Goldstein, Jun 20, 2019
Auctions A Serene Monet and Several Restituted Treasures Reassure the Market at Sotheby’s $124 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale The action assuaged market jitters after a rocky performance at Christie's Impressionist and Modern sale on Tuesday. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 19, 2019
Auctions The Gun That Vincent van Gogh Is Believed to Have Used to Kill Himself Just Sold for $182,000 at Auction The more than 100-year-old weapon doubled its estimate at a Paris auction today. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 19, 2019
Auctions What the Sotheby’s Sale Means for the Future of the Art Industry—and How It Reflects a Broader Shift in Global Economics Patrick Drahi's acquisition of Sotheby's is the latest in a long line of public companies-gone-private. Here's what it means. By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, Jun 19, 2019
Auctions Late Picasso Works Save an Otherwise Lackluster $46 Million Impressionist and Modern Art Sale at Christie’s London Meanwhile, Barbara Hepworth and Frank Bowling headlined the auction house's lively Modern British art sale. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 18, 2019
Auctions French Media Tycoon Patrick Drahi Has Acquired Sotheby’s for $3.7 Billion, Taking the Publicly Traded Auction House Private Sotheby's will no longer trade on the New York Stock Exchange. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 17, 2019
Auctions Here are the 12 Weirdest Items From the Burt Reynolds Estate Sale, Ranked From Badass to Just Bad From his sexy, sexy pajamas to props from 'Friends' to some actual (terrifying) art, the sale captures the actor’s ups and downs. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 14, 2019
Auctions A-Rod Is Selling Basquiat and Richard Prince Works at Phillips to Start a New Collection With Fiancée Jennifer Lopez The star athlete says he's starting a new chapter as a collector. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 13, 2019
Auctions The Light-Up Cane That Helped Save Shipwrecked Titanic Survivors Is Coming to Auction At the time, the battery-powered light was cutting-edge technology. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 12, 2019
Auctions Egypt Tries to Halt the Auction of a King Tut Sculpture Amid Accusations That It Could Have Been Looted Egypt's most high-profile archaeologist wants the $5 million sculpture of the boy king to be repatriated. By Naomi Rea, Jun 11, 2019
Auctions Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’ and an Offbeat Modigliani Will Lead Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Auctions in London This Month The auction house is following up its record-setting $111 million Monet last month. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 7, 2019
Auctions A Long-Forgotten ‘Lewis Chessman’ Piece That Languished in a Drawer for Decades Could Fetch $1.2 Million at Auction Next Month It is one of the long-lost pieces from a Lewis Chessman set. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 3, 2019
