Auctions Winston Churchill Made a Painting and Gave It to FDR. Then Angelina Jolie Got It. She Just Sold It for $11.6 Million at Christie’s The top lot of the sale set a new auction record for a work by the wartime prime minister. By Naomi Rea, Mar 2, 2021
Auctions A Bargain Hunter Picked Up This Small Ceramic Bowl for $35 at a Junk Sale. Now, It Could Sell for Up to $500,000 at Sotheby’s As it turns out, it's an exceedingly rare example of Ming Dynasty porcelain. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 26, 2021
Auctions Treasures From the Blue-Chip Art Collection of Texas Oil Heiress Anne Marion Could Fetch $150 Million at Sotheby’s The late billionaire assembled a collection of 20th-century American masterworks that has rarely been seen in public. By Artnet News, Feb 24, 2021
Auctions A Vincent van Gogh Landscape Never Before Seen in Public Could Fetch Nearly $10 Million at Auction Next Month The painting has been housed in the private collection of a French family for more than a century. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 24, 2021
Auctions In the Latest NFT Auction Frenzy, an Artist Just Sold a Collection of Digital Furniture for $450,000—See Images of the Otherworldly Designs Here The auction sold out in less than 10 minutes. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 23, 2021
Auctions Is This the Next Art-Market Bubble? A Unique NFT for the Popular ‘Nyan Cat’ GIF Just Sold for a Whopping $560,000 The price was 300 in Ethereum. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 22, 2021
Auctions Paintings of King Charles Spaniels and Other Treasures From the Estate of John McCain’s Late Mother Sold for Nearly $100,000 at Auction Roberta McCain, who died at age 108 last year, was an avid collector of objects both expensive and cheap. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 22, 2021
Auctions A $9.8 Million Auction of Works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Their Artist Friends More Than Doubled Its Estimate at Sotheby’s Paris The auction offered an eclectic mix of work by the artists and those in their inner circle. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 18, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Hopes to Open a New Frontier of the Art Market With the First-Ever Major Auction of a Wholly Digital Blockchain Artwork The starting price for the work is just $100. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 16, 2021
Auctions A 1982 Basquiat Is Expected to Fetch Over $30 Million at Christie’s Hong Kong, Setting a Record for a Western Artist in Asia The sale shows confidence in the appetite for Western art in Asia. By Naomi Rea, Feb 11, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Has Closed Off Public Access to Its 255-Year-Old Auction Archive, a Major Resource for Scholars, Citing Budget Concerns The library is considered to be the most comprehensive auction archive in the world. By Artnet News, Feb 11, 2021
Auctions Undaunted by Restitution and Authenticity Claims From Mexico, Christie’s Pulls in a Solid $3 Million at Its Sale of Pre-Columbian Art in Paris The auction house said all the works were "legitimately sold." By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 9, 2021
Auctions New York’s Shuttered KGB Museum Is Auctioning Off Its Entire Collection of Spycams, Poison Containers, and Lenin Art This Weekend Julien’s Auctions is selling off the museum's entire collection. By Brian Boucher, Feb 9, 2021
Auctions A Pair of Size-12.5 Nike Basketball Sneakers Designed for Barack Obama Are Dropping on Presidents’ Day Weekend—for $25,000 The sneakers go on offer at 4:44 p.m. Friday in honor of the 44th president. By Brian Boucher, Feb 8, 2021
Auctions Angelina Jolie Is Selling the Only Painting Winston Churchill Made During World War II—and It Could Fetch $3.4 Million at Christie’s The painting hits the block on March 1. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 1, 2021
