Auctions Edwin Cox’s Art Earned $332 Million at Christie’s Last Year. Now, Lesser-Known Pieces Are Hitting the Block for a Fraction of the Price Chicago's Hindman Auctions will offer up a selection of art and design from the Cox estate over the course of three months. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 12, 2022
Auctions An Iconic René Magritte Landscape Could Fetch $60 Million at Sotheby’s in the Latest Sign That the Trophy Market Continues to Rage The work has never before been sold. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 11, 2022
Auctions Bonhams Has Acquired a Leading Nordic Auction House in a Bid to Boost Its Expansion Into Europe The acquisition is part of the U.K. auction house's ambitious plans to expand its reach in the European market. By Vivienne Chow, Jan 10, 2022
Auctions Actor Michael Caine Is Auctioning Off His Marc Chagall Painting, an ‘Alfie’ Poster, and Other Art and Movie Memorabilia Bonhams will sell the collection in March. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 10, 2022
Auctions Here Are the 10 Most Expensive Works of Art Sold at Auction in 2021—and Why They Fetched the Prices They Did Plus, who bought and sold them (when we could figure it out). By Artnet News, Dec 29, 2021
Auctions From Dino Bones to a Metaverse Debut, Here Are 7 of the Weirdest Stunts Auction Houses Pulled Off During the Pandemic Era The wildest part is that while they were shocking at the time, many don't even seem that weird anymore! By Amah-Rose Abrams, Dec 22, 2021
Auctions Boosted by Private Sales and NFTs, Christie’s Brought in a Total of $7.1 Billion in 2021—Its Best Results in Five Years Christie's came in second behind Sotheby's in overall results, but private sales surged. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 20, 2021
Auctions Born Without Arms or Legs, the Victorian Artist Sarah Biffin Painted Beautifully With Her Teeth. Now, She’s Become a Market Star Two years ago, Biffin's auction record was about $3,400. Now it's exploding. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 20, 2021
Auctions A Welsh Woman Picked Up a Globe for $199 at an Antique Fair Last Year. She Just Sold It for Almost 800 Times That at Auction The globe, it turns out, was likely made around 1550-60, predating the discovery of Australia. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 17, 2021
Auctions Setting an All-Time Record, Sotheby’s Has Sold $7.3 Billion Worth of Art in 2021. Here’s How The robust results coincide with reports that owner Patrick Drahi may be contemplating an IPO. By Eileen Kinsella & Katya Kazakina, Dec 15, 2021
Auctions Kenneth Griffin, Finance Titan and Retail-Investor Bogeyman, Beat Out the DAO to Buy the U.S. Constitution at Sotheby’s Goliath beats David. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 19, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Raked in $190 Million at Its Contemporary Art Double-Header, and Minted Several New Market Stars María Berrío and Lisa Brice were among the many artists who set auction records at "The Now." By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 18, 2021
Auctions A Ragtag Band of Crypto Populists Tried and Failed to Buy the U.S. Constitution in an Epic $43.2 Million Auction Showdown The sale captured the attention of people around the world after a DAO raised $46 million in less than a week to try to buy it. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 18, 2021
Auctions Emerging Artists Earn Phillips Its Most Lucrative Auction Ever, Raking in a $137.9 Million Sales Total Records were set for younger artists, like Shara Hughes and Ewa Juszkiewicz, while the marquee lot by Francis Bacon failed to reach its low estimate. By Annie Armstrong, Nov 17, 2021
Auctions Frida Kahlo Sets a New Auction Record for Latin American Art—Beating Out Diego Rivera—at Sotheby’s $283 Million Modern Art Evening Sale Kahlo's 'Diego y Yo' sold for $34.9 million. By Annie Armstrong, Nov 16, 2021
