Auctions Restituted Meissen Porcelains Shatter Estimates at Sotheby’s—and One of the Big Buyers Was the Museum That Returned Them The auction of Meissen objects restituted by the Rijksmuseum brought in $15 million, seven times the presale estimate. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 14, 2021
Auctions Artist Dread Scott’s First NFT Is a Video of a White Man Atop an Auction Block. He’s Taking It Straight to Christie’s "This is a really rare opportunity to buy a white male for sale,” said the artist. "They don't come up very often." By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 14, 2021
Auctions More Than 50 Works From the Collection of Late, Keen-Eyed Old Master Dealer Richard Feigen Could Fetch $17 Million at Auction An eclectic mix of works assembled by the dealer is going to Sotheby's. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 13, 2021
Auctions Just Two Bored Ape NFT Lots Brought in a Combined $26 Million at Sotheby’s This Week, a New Crypto-Art Record for the Auction House A lot of 101 apes, plus six “mutant serums,” scored $24 million alone. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 10, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Will Sell the $600 Million Collection of Divorcing Couple Harry and Linda Macklowe, the Market’s Most Coveted Consignment in Years Sotheby's and Christie's both competed fiercely for the consignment, which represents the biggest test of the market since the pandemic. By Katya Kazakina, Sep 9, 2021
Auctions Wong Kar Wai Is Auctioning Off Never-Before-Seen Footage of ‘In the Mood for Love’ as an NFT at Sotheby’s Hong Kong The digital artwork features unreleased footage of Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung from one of the director's most acclaimed films. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 8, 2021
Auctions Banksy’s Infamous Shredded Painting Is Out of the Bin and Back at Auction—for Nearly Four Times Its Previous Price Sotheby's will sell the painting in October with a current low estimate set at $5.5 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 3, 2021
Auctions Two Paintings by Ireland’s Foremost Impressionist, Found Buried in an Ohio Storage Unit, Could Fetch $60,000 at Auction The family had owned the works for generations, but thought they were worthless prints. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 24, 2021
Auctions Lawyer Tom Girardi, Made Famous on Bravo, Is Auctioning the Art Off His Firm’s Walls (Along With Everything Else) to Pay Down Debts In 2018, the lawyer was sued by former clients for allegedly embezzling millions in settlement money from them. By Artnet News, Aug 17, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Will Become the First Major Auction House to Offer NFTs in Asia, With a Sale of CryptoPunks, Meebits, and Bored Apes The auction house sold a set of CryptoPunks for $16.9 million in May. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 12, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Partnering With MGM Resorts for a Mega $100 Million Picasso Auction in Las Vegas The star lot, a portrait of Picasso's lover, Marie-Thérèse Walter, is estimated to sell for between $20 million to $30 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 11, 2021
Auctions Phillips Auction House Says It Pulled In More Than Half a Billion Dollars in the First Half of 2021, a 25 Percent Increase Over 2019 Private sales and demand from Asia were key drivers of growth. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 1, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Is Looking to Bank $200 Million From the Storied Impressionist Art Collection of the Late Oil Magnate Edwin L. Cox The top works Christie's hopes to sell—by Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, and Vincent Van Gogh—each come with eight-figure estimates. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 30, 2021
Auctions The U.S. Government Just Sold the One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Album It Seized From Martin Shkreli The buyer and the purchase price are both being kept confidential. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 27, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Will Quadruple Its Sales Room Footprint in Hong Kong With a New Location—and Triple Its Number of Auctions in the City The move is part of an ambitious growth plan for the Asian market. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 27, 2021
