Auctions See the Costumes, Props, and Sets From Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ Heading to Auction More than 450 objects from the series will go on view before a February 2024 auction at Bonhams. By Verity Babbs, Dec 19, 2023
Auctions Christie’s Posts a $2.2-Billion Drop in Sales in 2023 But 2022, the house's best year ever, was a hard act to follow. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 18, 2023
Auctions Nike Sneakers Produced for Spike Lee, Found in a Donation Bin, Fetch More Than $50,000 at Auction The shoes were anonymously donated to Portland Rescue Mission earlier this year. By Verity Babbs, Dec 18, 2023
Auctions A Painting Found in a U.K. Thrift Shop Turns Out to Be a Henry Scott Tuke Work Worth Over $31,000 The painting was left at an Oxfam thrift store by an unnamed donor. By Adam Schrader, Dec 14, 2023
Auctions A Carlo Scarpa Vase Found in a Thrift Store Just Made More Than $100,000 at Auction The seller found it on a high shelf in a Goodwill in Richmond, Virginia. By Brian Boucher, Dec 13, 2023
Auctions A Newly Attributed Rembrandt Once Valued at $10,000 Sold for Almost $14 Million The painting vanished from public view in the 1950s, only to resurface in 2021 on the auction block. By Adam Schrader, Dec 13, 2023
Auctions German Auction House Ketterer Kunst’s Weekend Art Sales Achieved a Handsome Hammer Total of $43 Million But the lukewarm sell-through rates across all five sales indicated that the market is volatile. By Vivienne Chow, Dec 12, 2023
Auctions An ‘Asterix’ Cover Painting Fails to Sell at Auction After the Artist’s Daughter Claims It Was Stolen The auction house’s director general says buyers may have been scared off by the legal complaint. By Brian Boucher, Dec 11, 2023
Auctions The U.K.’s Oldest Known Scientific Instrument, Dubbed an ‘Early Computer,’ Heads to Auction The Medieval device was designed to tell time by tracking the position of the sun. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 11, 2023
Auctions That Famous $5 Tutu from ‘Sex and the City’ Could Fetch $12,000 at Auction Carrie Bradshaw's thrift-store skirt hits the block alongside outfits worn by Princess Diana and Grace Kelly. By Artnet News, Dec 7, 2023
Auctions Will a $2 Million Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook Remain in Germany? The sketchbook has been nominated for protected status as a cultural asset, despite selling at auction. By Verity Babbs, Dec 4, 2023
Auctions Jay-Z Is Auctioning Custom Library Cards to Benefit the Brooklyn Public Library The sale caps the rapper's autobiographical "The Book of HOV" exhibition at the library, which closes December 5. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 2, 2023
Auctions A Royal Portrait by Diego Velázquez Heads to Auction for the First Time in Half a Century The work is expected to fetch $35 million when it hits the block at Sotheby's New York. By Adam Schrader, Nov 30, 2023
Auctions By the Numbers: A Breakdown of Results From Christie’s Hong Kong’s Post-Millennium Evening Sale, November 2023 Let the numbers tell the story. By Vivienne Chow, Nov 29, 2023
Auctions By the Numbers: A Breakdown of Results From Christie’s Hong Kong’s 20th/21st Century Evening Sale, November 2023 Get the stats behind the spin. By Vivienne Chow, Nov 29, 2023
