Auctions Mad Dog Jones Is the Most Expensive Living Canadian Artist After Phillips’s $4.1 Million Sale of His Self-Replicating NFT Bidding started at $100 two weeks ago. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 23, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Just Launched a Science and Pop Culture Department, Citing Growing Hunger for Dinosaur Bones and Space Suits Sotheby's new division will be helmed by Cassandra Hatton, a former books and manuscript specialist with omnivorous taste. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 21, 2021
Auctions Surging Demand for Young Artists Powered Sotheby’s $122.5 Million Contemporary Art Sale in Hong Kong The 45-lot sale saw records set for Avery Singer, Salman Toor, and others. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 19, 2021
Auctions Robert Colescott’s Caustic Satire of ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ Is Poised to Reset the Artist’s Market at Sotheby’s Next Month Estimated to go for $9 million to $12 million, the painting is expected to smash the artist’s current auction record of $912,500. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 16, 2021
Auctions Phillips’s Spring Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London Generated a Solid £24.8 Million, Up Nearly a Fifth From Last Year The house sold 91 percent by lot. By Naomi Rea, Apr 15, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Nets $17 Million With Its First-Ever NFT Auction (Which Included Almost 20,000 Very Fungible Works) Thousands of buyers eagerly snapped up the anonymous artist Pak's $500 "cubes," which were made in an open edition. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 15, 2021
Auctions Celeb Podcaster Russell Tovey’s Sotheby’s Sale Generates $8.5 Million—and Fierce Competition for Young Stars The tenth edition of the sale brought the series' highest total to date. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 14, 2021
Auctions A Collection of Impressionist Paintings Assembled by a Campbell’s-Soup Heir May Fetch Over $60 Million at Sotheby’s The sale offers a sign that the market for masterpieces may be returning. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 13, 2021
Auctions An Oil Painting Banksy ‘Vandalized’ With a Comment on Climate Change Will Highlight Christie’s June Sales The work is expected to fetch between £3 million and £5 million. By Naomi Rea, Apr 13, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Will Offer 9 Multimillion-Dollar NFT CryptoPunks in Its May Evening Auction. Here’s What That Means The digital collectibles include a rare alien punk. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 9, 2021
Auctions Following Public Pressure, eBay Has Cancelled a Sale of Wartime Drawings Reportedly Made by an Artist in a U.S. Japanese Internment Camp A number of organizations wrote to the auction house saying they objected to "profiteering off the oppression of Japanese Americans." By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 7, 2021
Auctions A Picasso Portrait Could Rake in $55 Million at Christie’s Next Month, Suggesting a Surge in the Art Market’s Confidence The work, depicting Marie-Thérèse Walter, was painted in 1932, Picasso's so-called "year of wonders." By Caroline Goldstein, Apr 6, 2021
Auctions Phillips Is Entering the Digital Fray With the Sale of a Mad Dog Jones NFT That Will Generate New NFTs Every Month The artist calls the work the first “multi-generational NFT.” By Sarah Cascone, Apr 2, 2021
Auctions A Medici-Themed Basquiat Painting Could Sell for $50 Million at Sotheby’s to Become One of the Priciest Works by the Artist Ever 'Versus Medici' hails from 1982, the most sought-after era of the artist's production. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 26, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Rakes in $176 Million in a Global, Five-Hour Franken-Sale Led by Edvard Munch’s $22 Million Beach Landscape Vincent van Gogh’s Scène de rue à Montmartre sold for $15.2 million after appearing twice during the sale. By Nate Freeman, Mar 26, 2021
