Auctions Auction Houses in North America Don’t Have to Give Artists a Cut of Sales. This Small Canadian Business Decided to Do It Anyway Peter Estey Fine Art is a tiny auction house with a big dream to level the playing field for artists circulating on the secondary market. By Kate Brown, Dec 1, 2019
Auctions Experts Say This Painting of a Random Woman Is Really a Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I—and Now It Could Fetch $322,000 at Auction This early piece of “brand management,” as a Bonham’s expert puts it, contrasted a “dour” image of the queen. By Nan Stewert, Nov 27, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Stands by Its Decision to Sell a $1 Million Roman Sculpture Despite Its Links to a Disgraced Dealer An expert claims the statue of Eros can be linked to the notorious antiquities dealer Robin Symes. By Caroline Elbaor, Nov 26, 2019
Auctions New York Fall 2019 Auction Round-Up: Here’s Everything We Published on the Megawatt Sales in One Place Our comprehensive recap of the biggest sales, flops, and other highlights of the $1.1 billion week. By Artnet News, Nov 22, 2019
Auctions We Broke Down the Data From New York’s Fall Auctions. Here Are 3 Things They Reveal About Where the Art Market Is Headed Consult our charts to learn which segments of the art market are growing—and which ones are shrinking quickly. By Tim Schneider & Julia Halperin, Nov 22, 2019
Auctions Want an ‘Intimate Digital Experience’ With Marina Abramović? The Artist Is Selling Her First-Ever ‘Mixed Reality’ Work at Auction Has Abramović invented a new genre of art? By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 21, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Joins the Race for Millennial Buyers With Its Own Sale of Supreme Skateboards (Plus a Pinball Machine) The sale 'Handbags X Hype' features artist-designed skate decks and Hermès bags. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 20, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Will Sell Art From the Estate of Tastemaker and Legendary Met Board Member Jayne Wrightsman The sale is expected to make more than $8 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 20, 2019
Auctions Auction Blotter: Tschabalala Self’s 3,400% Return, Michael Armitage’s Big Debut, & More Market Sparks From New York’s Day Sales We look at seven lots that took off at New York's day sales last week—and what they tell us about where the market is headed. By Nate Freeman, Nov 19, 2019
Auctions A 14-Year-Old Charlotte Brontë Made This Tiny Book for Toy Soldiers to Read in 1830. It Just Sold For More Than $860,000 The dramatic, miniature volume includes a fiery scene that anticipates ‘Jane Eyre.’ By Maxwell Williams, Nov 19, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Pulls Banksy’s Allegedly Stolen Sculpture ‘The Drinker’ Just an Hour Before It Was Due to Be Sold at Auction The sculpture had been estimated to sell for as much as $1.3 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 19, 2019
Auctions Who Won Auction Week? Here Are 13 Key Takeaways From New York’s Head-Spinning $1.1 Billion Fall Art Sales From the priciest work to the top flop, here are our parting observations from last week's auction marathon. By Artnet News, Nov 18, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Preparing to Sell an Early Banksy Sculpture—But Now the Secretive Street Artist’s Nemesis Says That He’s the Rightful Owner A Banksy work that was stolen almost 15 years ago has resurfaced at Sotheby's with a $1.3 million high estimate. By Kate Brown, Nov 18, 2019
Auctions Has the AI-Generated Art Bubble Already Burst? Buyers Greeted Two Newly Offered Works at Sotheby’s With Lackluster Demand The two lots failed to spark the same frenzied bidding that Obvious's work generated last year. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 15, 2019
Auctions Asian Bidding Rouses Sotheby’s $270.7 Million Contemporary Sale, With the Same Buyer Snapping Up Two of the Priciest Paintings Still, fireworks were muted—the sale's total was down more than 25 percent from the equivalent sale in 2018. By Nate Freeman, Nov 14, 2019
